u/ITCJSTPAR__DUNDUN

From what I have gathered, a commander has listed my phone number as their contact in a number of places. I routinely receive calls from various bases, from all sorts of ranks, looking for someone to help.

Every time I ask them to please make a note that they have the wrong number for him.

The issue is that I am on-call at night for my own job, so I need to have my phone’s ringer turned on and am frequently answering unknown numbers because sometimes nurses call me from their own cell phone numbers when I am being paged to come in.

It’s become increasingly frustrating and there seems to be little remedy at this point.

However, in the last couple of months, it has increased considerably. In the last two days I have received calls from:

Army JBLMWA Chapel

Scott AFB

An Army Lt’s personal cellphone (according to Facebook)

Andrews FSS Casualty Assistance

These names either show up on the caller ID or are easily located with a quick google search.

Does anyone have any suggestions for figuring out how this happening and making it stop?

Edit/Update: I’m cracking up at the response to this, I assumed that a couple do people would respond, so thank you for the suggestions (both the legal and illegal ones).

Next call, I’m going with a simple “oh he actually died.” Thought I aspire to begin offer orders, I am also in law school and I fear the bar association would frown upon this.

In the meantime, I also reached out to a AF Chaplain friend of mine who is searching down which chaplain has listed my phone number as theirs. Many of you also confirmed my suspicions that this is a chaplain’s number given the weird sources of the calls (military chapels and the casualty office). What is SUPER weird about that is that I am actually a professional chaplain (not military) and it’s a weirdly niche field, but I do have lots of military chaplain friends.

Will update!