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Military Alphabet


The Military Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet. A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are substituted for letters. For example, the word "Navy" would be "November Alfa Victor Yankee" when spelled in the phonetic alphabet. This practice helps to prevent confusion between similar sounding letters, such as "m" and "n", and to clarify communications that may be garbled during transmission.

The words chosen to represent some letters have changed since the phonetic alphabet was introduced. When these changes occur, they are made by international agreement. The current phonetic alphabet was adopted in 1957.

that explains the odd names of fireteams and navpoints in SOCOM game for PS2. Golf Oscar November Alfa Victor Yankee Sierra Echo Alfa Lima Sierra!!

P.S what would a space be?

I'm presuming you mean a space between words..... I know I'd go insane if I heard Alpha Break Alpha Break Sierra Break Hotel Break Oscar Break Lima Break Echo Over, and that's what I'd say to them. But the term "Break" is a comm term used when you are wanting to "Break" someones conversation on the net. Used when say someone is shot and you need a medevac, gotta call it into higher (command), but someone is already talking. You say "Break, Break, Break" and in time it took to say that, someone should have let off the key. Nowadays tho, it is a common radio misetiquette to say break between transmissions, (Hey Jed I need you to come over here, Break, so you can take a picture of this guy holding a goat, Over). All you have to do is let off the PTT 1 sec every so often. The reason you let off the key is if you don't the transmission will become "warbled" aka jacked up. Especially noticeable in long range transmissions.