Picture a young, hot headed USMC pilot wanting the call sign Blue Falcon and someone noticing the initials also fit Butt Face. It stuck! We had 3 other nimrods without callsigns so they became Butt Face 2, Butt Face 3 and Butt Face 4. Once they matured, you could sometimes hear something like this on the air: "Butt Face flight check in - Butt Face 2, 3, 4".
Had a man accidentally discharge his side arm in a crowded office and the 9mm ricocheted around the concrete walls. He was the only casualty, sustaining a small cut on his cheek, likely from concrete. Callsign till death: "Ricochete Rodriques".
Another pilot had the callsign of Bullet. One day while preparring for a combat sortie, he shot the deck of the carrier as he "preflighted" his side arm. He didn't really earn a new callsign from this however, "Bullet" sure was cemented after that.
Yet another Marine, standing at a bar fairly drunk. Oblivious to the world, he stuck his hand down the back of his trousers and began scratching his butt. He instantly earned the callsign "Scratch". A year later, in a drunken stupor, Scratch grabbed a waitress smack in the middle of the crotch. After his callsign became "Muffy" he decided that Scratch was not so bad after all. Muffy may be sober now but, he's still called Muffy!
Signed:
Jekyll (USMC callsign)