What Was Your Nickname or Callsign During Your Military Service? Can You Recall the Nicknames or Callsigns of Other Characters From Your Service and How These Were Earned?:

I earned “Spiderman” in the most humbling way imaginable for someone working in classified intelligence. After contracting crabs, I captured one of the offending critters and taped it to a piece of paper like I was preparing evidence for analysis – occupational hazard of working in intelligence, I suppose. When I brought my “specimen” to the base clinic, the first medic I showed it to squinted at it and said, “Well, that looks like a little spider.” I had to patiently explain to this individual that it was definitely NOT a spider, and that we had a significantly more embarrassing situation to address. Finally, I got in to see an actual doc who confirmed my self-diagnosis and issued the appropriate treatment.