It’s not widely known, but TOUCAN was General Philip Sheridan’s callsign in 1842, when he was captain of Albany’s under-twelve hangliding air ballet team. The name stemmed from his signature air ballet move the “Fruit Loop”, which involved eating a banana (just look at it!) during a series of low altitude barrel rolls and landing backwards in a reverse pike.
TOUCAN was also the callsign that the secret service gave to president Lyndon B. Johnson, of whom J. Edgar Hoover once said “His nose is in the Oval Office while his ass is still sitting on the lanai at Camp David.”
Make of that what you will.
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