MILITARY CALLSIGN LIST AS OF Dec 2010 Compiled by Ron (mdmonitor1@)This list is the work of many people. I started in 1998 with a basic list that I pulled off of the web. That list had been compiled by Hugh Stegman, a highly respected radio hobbyist and columnist for Monitoring Times. In the intervening years I have added callsigns that I myself have heard and verified as well as those from various “seasoned”, respected milcomer’s and HF utility communications hobbyists here in the US as well as Europe. Background:One has to take most military calls with a grain of salt. They are often used by more than one unit. Also, the US military is closing bases left and right, moving and combining things, transferring tasks to the reserves, and the like. For basically historical reasons I have left in many of the daily changing tactical callsigns used by the TACAMO & ABNCP units. We may not see them again, but then again they could be reused.A callword is a station identifier without numbers, such as Mudbug Control. A callsign is one with numbers, such as Abnormal 10. Static callsigns/callwords of air tankers tend to associate with gasoline, gas stations, or fuel in general, though the association gets pretty vague. Fighters are more macho. A few callsigns/callwords are acronyms, such as ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft), JOINT STARS/JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Tactical Radar System), SPAR (Special Priority Air Resource); and SAM (Special Air Mission).Many CPs, Air National Guard or CAP units, and the like, derive callwords from geographical characteristics of their locations, i.e AK-SAR-BEN (Nebraska backwards, and a popular horse track), MUDBUG (near the Mississippi "big muddy" delta, where mudbug crabs are found), and HIGH ROLLER (Nevada ANG, Reno). AIRCRAFT CALLSIGNS: There are several “systems” that I have noted over the years.:Transports: Callsign + 1 or 01 is usually the unit commander’s callsign. Callsign +2 or 02 is usually the deputy unit commander. Reach callsigns suffixes are usually either a mission number or some variation on the aircraft tail number.Fighters: Callsign + 81 or 91 appear to be travelling callsigns used on cross-country, special activity and out-of-area flights. Some units have special callsigns they use when travelling out of area so the number used may not correlate with the 81/91 system. Normally, fighters use callsign + 11, callsign + 21, etc. One explanation I’ve read (which makes sense to me) is that the first unit sortie of the day is callsign + 11, the second sortie is callsign + 21 and so on. Another theory is that the suffixes are determined by the day of the week, i.e. 11 is used on Monday, 21 on Tuesday and so on. NOTE #1: TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THE CALLSIGNS IN THIS LIST ARE FROM UNCLASSIFED SOURCES---NO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN KNOWINGLY INCLUDED IN THIS LIST.NOTE #2: Some of the callsigns were taken from the aircraft's Mode S tranmissions as copied by listeners with an SBS box. These callsigns are entered by the flight or ground crews. As such one sometimes sees things like " F-15s Suck" or "A-10s Rule" in the callsign block. I have added those callsigns that seem to "make sense" to the list in hopes that they are valid callsigns however, with the usual caveat.NOTE #3- I HOPE THIS LIST IS USEFUL--BUT UNDERSTAND IT IS AN EVER-CHANGING " WORK IN PROGRESS'. I WELCOME ANY SUGGESTED CHANGES/ADDITIONS.================ ===== ============================================AAEC LSV-1 USAV GEN. FRANK S. BESSON-FT UESTISAAED LSV-2 USAV-CW3 HAROLD C. CLINGER-FORD ISLAND HIAAEE LSV-3 USAV Gen. BREHON B. SOMERVELL-TACOMA WASHAAEF LSV-4 USAV LT. GEN. WILLIAM BUNKER-FT EUSTIS VAADSV LSV-5 USAV MAJ GEN CHARLES P GROSS-FORD ISLAND HIAAFA LSV-6 USAV SPEC4 JAMES A. LOUX-FT EUSTIS VAAADS USAV RUNNYMEADE LCU-2001AAEG USAV KENESAW MTN LCU-2002AAEH USAV MACON LCU-2003AADT USAV ALDIE LCU-2004AADU USAV BRANDY STATION LCU-2005AADV USAV BRISTOE STATION LCU-2006AADW USAV BROAD RUN LCU-2007AADX USAV BUENA VISTA LCU-2008AADY USAV SPRINGFIELD LCU-2009AADZ USAV CEDAR RUN LCU-2010AAEA USAV CHICKAHOMINY LCU-2011AAEB USAV CHICKASAW BAYOU LCU-2012AAEI USAV CHURUBUSCO LCU-2013AAEJ USAV COAMO LCU-2014ADMM USAV CONTRERES LCU-2015ADMN USAV CORINTH LCU-2016ADMO USAV EL CANEY LCU-2017ADMP USAV FIVE FORKS LCU-2018ADMQ USAV FORT DONELSON LCU-2019ADMR USAV FORT MCHENRY LCU-2020ADMS USAV GREAT BRIDGE LCU-2021ADMT USAV HARPERS FERRY LCU-2022ADMU USAV HOBKIRK LCU-2023ADMV USAV HOMIGUEROS LCU-2024。