Roger Mexico

[Erik Burns]

A hundred years ago (I'm digging out from under a pile of digests...) sims
wrote:

>Alpha - Bravo - Charlie - Delta...Roger - Mexico. 
>Initials R. M.  is where to look perhaps, not literally Roger Mexico. 

Well ok, except that standard-issue military/radio phonetic for "M" is, er
"Mike," not Mexico.

(I see someone found an alternate alphabet with Mexico for M as well as
other country names for other letters - b-but that would mean R isn't Roger,
no?)

etb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FAA_Phonetic_and_Morse_Chart.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

 

 

 

 

 

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