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Filipino Monkey
"Filipino Monkey" is a taunt used by radio pranksters in maritime radio transmissions since at least the 1980s, especially in the Persian Gulf. This taunt is also used as a name for pranksters who make odd, confusing, or even threatening calls on VHF marine channel 16, which is the VHF calling and distress channel. Ships at sea are required to monitor the channel, which is meant to be used only to make contact before changing to a working channel.
In the late 1980s in the Persian Gulf, there was much Filipino imported labor, in particular maritime labor. Late at night, Arab and Persian natives would taunt Filipinos from the anonymity of the radio. An account of U.S. operations during Operation Earnest Will in the Persian Gulf in 1988 contains this description of a typical nighttime broadcasts:
From time to time, the radio squawked, breaking the quiet with a burst of static. Most of the messages were fully routine, the expected traffic in a crowded sea. But every so often a high manic voice would break from the speaker: "Hee hee hee! Filipino Monkey!" No one knew who the caller was, or what he meant by his strange message."
Some report that the phrase originated as an insult to Filipino seaman watchkeepers monitoring the VHF distress channel.
On January 7, 2008, the government of the United States of America reported that the day before a number of Iranian IRGC Navy speedboats had harassed and threatened U.S. warships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passageway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. In a video clip released by the administration, a crew member on a warship issues this radio message:
This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law. I maintain no harm. Over!
This is followed by footage of smaller speedboats traveling at high speed around U.S. warships. The crew member is heard on the radio warning five unidentified craft that they are approaching coalition warships and asking them to identify themselves and report their intentions. Later, the crew member is heard warning the crafts to stay away. Then a heavily accented voice is heard replying:
I am coming to you ... You will explode after few minutes.
Filipino Monkey
"Filipino Monkey" is a taunt used by radio pranksters in maritime radio transmissions since at least the 1980s, especially in the Persian Gulf. This taunt is also used as a name for pranksters who make odd, confusing, or even threatening calls on VHF marine channel 16, which is the VHF calling and distress channel. Ships at sea are required to monitor the channel, which is meant to be used only to make contact before changing to a working channel.
In the late 1980s in the Persian Gulf, there was much Filipino imported labor, in particular maritime labor. Late at night, Arab and Persian natives would taunt Filipinos from the anonymity of the radio. An account of U.S. operations during Operation Earnest Will in the Persian Gulf in 1988 contains this description of a typical nighttime broadcasts:
From time to time, the radio squawked, breaking the quiet with a burst of static. Most of the messages were fully routine, the expected traffic in a crowded sea. But every so often a high manic voice would break from the speaker: "Hee hee hee! Filipino Monkey!" No one knew who the caller was, or what he meant by his strange message."
Some report that the phrase originated as an insult to Filipino seaman watchkeepers monitoring the VHF distress channel.
On January 7, 2008, the government of the United States of America reported that the day before a number of Iranian IRGC Navy speedboats had harassed and threatened U.S. warships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passageway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. In a video clip released by the administration, a crew member on a warship issues this radio message:
This is coalition warship. I am engaged in transit passage in accordance with international law. I maintain no harm. Over!
This is followed by footage of smaller speedboats traveling at high speed around U.S. warships. The crew member is heard on the radio warning five unidentified craft that they are approaching coalition warships and asking them to identify themselves and report their intentions. Later, the crew member is heard warning the crafts to stay away. Then a heavily accented voice is heard replying:
I am coming to you ... You will explode after few minutes.