Ripple Effect

A journal of memories, impressions, ideas and mistakes.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

An explanation of G.I. (government-issued) and a list of the Army-style alphabet, apparently designed for security purposes, a "new list of nomenclature which would be used, each one, to identify in code for security reasons, each and every duty in which a soldier might participate."

So we get: A=Alfa (sic); B=Bravo; C=Charlie etc.

"To say the resulting winning names were humorous is to be kind of disrespectful of the pains to which serious-minded men labored in inventing just the right name which would onomatapoetically symbolize the very function being done."

I wish he had sent more than the alphabet.

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