Michael, I'm surprised you've never heard of the phonetic alphabet before.
> On Jun 16, 2021, at 05:27, John Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fgovernment-and-politics-pa-state-wire-ga-state-wire-fl-state-wire-c1ce597ffce30b16f3b17e60dfd9161e&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C544f3a7d165846d1c58908d930d008f4%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637594492324798817%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=sYqmUsywylbr6r4A0%2F8a9kKgf6VeaTgJlJugHh9VwnA%3D&reserved=0 > > > Mike Payne > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
_______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
