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05-23-2003, 11:50 AM
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Just slightly <img border="0" alt="[offtopic]" title="" src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" /> The U.S. military phonetic alphabet does include the letter "J" and IS pronounced "Juliet"
This letter is not excluded from voice message traffic and is used for long haul High Frequency Radio voice communications where static plays a significant role the reliability factor for message traffic. This system is even used for command and control messages... From one who spent the last two years of a 20 year military career wearing headphones listening to static and copying down flash messages in support of our own WMD...and praying that each message was only a drill... and I have the hearing loss to prove it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
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