The soldiers nicknamed the mountain "Picket Post" due to its usage as a sentinel point to guard their camp from attacks.

During the De la Gardie Campaign, the Finnish soldiers nicknamed their commander Laiska-Jaakko ("Lazy Jacob") due to the unusually lengthy six-year occupation of Novgorod.

American soldiers nicknamed the bay Buckner Bay, after General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.

Furthermore, German soldiers nicknamed it the "Stupa", a contraction of the term Sturmpanzer.

And then there are the Ivans, as soldiers have nicknamed the 60 plastic head-and-torso infantry targets in green overcoats and caps with the red Soviet star.

He also served as regular soldier in Elijah V. White's 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, nicknamed the "Comanches."

Fighting with the Fourth Massachusetts, she managed to maintain her disguise, although her fellow soldiers nicknamed her "Molly" because of her hairless face.

American soldiers nicknamed the VC 'Charlie'.

The soldiers also nicknamed it "L'Île des Chevaux" (The island of horses).