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The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or ICAO spelling alphabet, as well as the ITU phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet, according to Wikipedia, from which I copied that first sentence wholesale. It's the alphabet you hear in like airport and military movies when someone gives an identifier as like "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot three three niner".
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Fun fact, in military radio communications, if you want the other party to repeat their last transmission, you do not use the word 'repeat,' you use the words 'say again.'
There's a specific reason that you do not use the word 'repeat' in military radio communications, let's see if anyone else knows why that word is so special...
There's a specific reason that you do not use the word 'repeat' in military radio communications, let's see if anyone else knows why that word is so special...
Exactly, 'Repeat' is only used in the phrase 'Repeat fire mission' which is an order to the artillery to fire what they last fired at the coordinates they last fired at. Random re-bombardment of areas already bombarded can be BAD, especially if the enemy has been pushed back and friendlies are now occupying that ground.
The beauty of the system is that none of the names sound like each other, making it nearly impossible to mistake what is being said.
I learned it back in '05, when I worked for a firm doing damage assessments in New Orleans, post-Katrina. Part of the job was to record device model & serial numbers, then describe the condition of the device. Most of my co-workers were ex-military, and taught it to me because we worked in teams.
One guy had his own phonetic code: all swear words. Where the air hadn't turned blue by his remarks, it turned brown.
I learned it back in '05, when I worked for a firm doing damage assessments in New Orleans, post-Katrina. Part of the job was to record device model & serial numbers, then describe the condition of the device. Most of my co-workers were ex-military, and taught it to me because we worked in teams.
One guy had his own phonetic code: all swear words. Where the air hadn't turned blue by his remarks, it turned brown.
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