Giant Killer
01-25-2011, 05:22 PM
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The one off the coast of San Diego is called Beaver control. Back in the day when women weren't allowed on ships they did their sea tour out of San Clemente or Nicholas. All the controllers were women, hence...
01-26-2011, 04:36 AM
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[edit] OriginsThe U.S. Military commonly uses pairs of words that do not sound phonetically similar as call signs. This reduces the chance for confusion during transmission of critical messages. Most military air traffic control facilities that use the GIANT KILLER call sign maintain direct communications to weapons capable flight squadrons; the "killer" portion of the call sign may be more than a coincidence.
As mentioned above - SoCal control is 'BEAVER', further south of 'GIANT KILLER' is 'SEA LORD' and down around the Gulf of Mexico it is 'SEA BREEZE' if I remember correctly. Nothing ominious there
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