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Originally Posted by Ogandydancer
I can't understand why everyone butchers the phonetic alphabet. It was devised in WWII with very specific thoughts in mind. Now a days you could hear anything. Ham ops are the only ones that are anywhere close to the original that I know of.
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The WWII phonetic alphabet was revised drastically to what the military and airlines all over the world use today. I've used it a few times in calling in a report of an impaired driver's license number or that of somebody conducting drug business in my apartment parking lot, and succeeded in confusing the hell out of some 911 dispatchers. I don't know why police and fire departments here don't use it.