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Moodboard dedicated to @yourluckyoswald and her OC Willow "Oswald" Pelekai

Instant Coffee stash

Early in the morning while waiting for the heli to take them home:

Oswald: *Pours Maxim coffee packets into a mug of hot water*

Gaz: Since when did we bring the coffee machine?

Oswald: Hm? We didn't. Soap left it back at base

Soap: *Sniffing the coffee scent* Since when did we have coffee? Were ye hogging a secret stash from us?

Oswald: No...?

Price: *Overhearing everything* Hold her down

Oswald: WAIT NO-

Soap and Gaz: *Holding Oz down*

Soap: *Reaches into her vest and grabs out a stash of Maxim coffee packets* Ye did have a stash!

Gaz: *Takes a pack* Tsk tsk. How could you, Oz. And from your own team?

Soap: *Sipping from his mug* Aye. We've been coffee starved for a week, Bonnie

Oswald: Bring your own packs next time!

A little ref sheet of my OC Oswald.

She's born and raised in Hawai'i so I kinda wanna do a few posts of her interacting with CoD characters in a thick Pidgin accent lol

(Also I dont have a set age for her bc I'm way too indecisive)

Graves: Gaz is the pretty one, Ghost is the masked mystery, Price is the captain, and Laswell- well- she's the mom

Graves: So what are you supposed to be?

Soap:

Stealth with Irony

Building explodes near Gaz and Smokes:

Oswald: *On coms* Buildings clear, but the hostiles had too many explosives and detonated it. Thankfully, I managed to escape with the package in time

Gaz: *A little caught off guard* Copy...

Smokes: *Looking like everything is normal* Copy, Capt

Gaz: How are you so calm? And why is the best stealth operator known to the American military able to pull that? *Gestures to the freshly exploded building* This contradicts everything she is!

Smokes: Ironic isn't it?

Gaz: Aren't you even a little concerned?

Smokes: Nah. She does this more often than you think. For someone who specializes in stealth, she has a flare for the more...rowdy things

Gaz: I will never understand how your Task force was able to stay under such strict secrecy...

Pidgin Siri

Backstory to why Oswald wears sunglasses

Audio Credit: @Pashyn Roasted by Pidgin Siri

More Digital Oswald sketches

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Oswald and her long wavy Hawaiian hair she refuses to cut.

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Dog in training

Smokes: Sit, Foz!

Fozzie: *Looks up at Smokes with big confused eyes*

Ghost: No luck?

Smokes: Nope. When Oz told me the SAS had great training pups, I thought it would be easier than the ones back home

Ghost: Takes patience for dogs like Foz

Smoke: *Lights a cig* I've realized that part. It's not like I can tell him to, "Sic em" or anything

Fozzie: *Immediately gets up and attacks Soap walking by*

Ghost: *Amused* Guess Foz is a great listener after all

Smokes: *Starts tearing up* Yes he is

TWST Oc's!

Raymond Lou- Ignihyde

Kai Finn- Octavinelle

Talon Park- Savanaclaw

Tsukiko- Diasomnia

Louis Finch- Heartslabyul

Edith Sparrow- Pomefiore

So dumb question time again. I saw where you reblogged the callsign post. But you said y’all just call them nicknames.

When I did the barest do research, I know should’ve looked harder, the only place I really found that used the term callsign were pilots.

(Also I forgot the word pilot and almost just wrote flier but had enough sense to google what are people that fly planes called)

In the COD wikis I’ve read they use the word Alias(es) and not callsign.

Is callsign just a pilot term? Or is it also used throughout the military?

I know I could probably google it more but honestly your lived experiences and even opinions give an interesting perspective on it all.

Sorry your tags got me thinking about where the term that is used so heavily in the fanfic side of the fandom came from and why we use it.

You mean this post?

Ok. Here's where the fandom rage quits my blog:

The term "callsign" is used incorrectly in roughly 99% of military-themed fanfiction.

In the army, a callsign (or call sign) is specifically used in radio communications, not as a moniker or nickname to be used in in-person communications.

More precisely, a callsign is a combination of alpha and numeric characters, like Echo 3-1, Bravo-6, or Watcher-1. Callsigns are also used to ID listening posts, HQs, and permanent telecom installations, such as 620-Kilo in Cold War West Berlin. The radio operator on site would ID as 620-Kilo rather than an individual callsign, and when their shift is over, the next operator ID as 620-Kilo also.

Only field operators use individually designated callsigns, unless the callsign ID the vehicle (like a tank or armored-heavy), which means anyone using the radio for the vehicle ID as the vehicle callsign.

A callword (or call word) is the name of a receiver or station using letters/words but no numbers, like Actual, Cloud Castle, or Whiskey Foxtrot.

U.S. pilots (navy/air force/army air cavalry) are different from most of the military. Pilots get permanent callsigns (not always with numbers) during training and it follows them during their career. To be fair, they spend a lot of time on the radio, so having a permanent callsign makes sense.

The Call of Duty fandom fell in love with using the term callsign because it sounds more "military" to their ears than alias or nickname.

Names like Ghost, Soap, and Gaz are aliases or nicknames. They're not actually callsigns.

In my writing, I avoid using the term callsign because it's usually not the proper word to use in a given scene. To be fair, I have yet to write a pilot fic or one where there's extended training discussion about the proper use of radio-telephone operation in field ops.

My husband was an airborne RATELO (radio-telephone operator) and had a callsign for several years, but no one ever used his callsign unless literally talking over the SINCGARS system with him. I operated a radio for a week and I don't even remember what my callsign was. It was something forgettable from the NATO alphabet* with a number after it.

In the army, in person you're either your last name or your nickname.

SpecOps often call each other by their first names ("what's up, Dave?" LOL), their last name, or a nickname.

CIA & CID use aliases. They call those guys spooks for a reason. You never know who you're actually taking to since they never use their real name.

In the context of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, I still maintain that Alex Keller isn't Echo-1's government name. He's CIA. That was never his name. And he was never here. :)

*The NATO Phonetic Alphabet, for reference:

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