They are saying em - em. When the military has to spell out something, they
use a phonetic alphabet in which each letter is replaced by a standard word
beginning with that letter. It aids accuracy over noisy channels. The NATO
phonetic alphabet (also used by ICAO) replaces the letter "m" with the word
"mike." We might prefer they replace the unit symbol with the unit word in
speech, but that is the military way of pronouncing letters in any "spelling
out."
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 07:50:06 AM EDT, Michael Payne
<[email protected]> wrote:
I read the following article which by soldiers is called a 40 mike mike. Hmm.
Wondered if this was millimetres and sure enough further down it was a 40 mm
grenade. I’ve never head of anyone calling this dimension mike mike before.
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