re: Do you use the phonetic alphabet?

...I know.

Do you also say tree fife and niner?

I find for most people I have to say "A as in Alpha" but in that case most any word starting with A would work. Maybe it is just my speech patterns but I find it very rare to have to use phonetics to be understood. I have to spell my street address and city for most people outside South Louisiana and can't remember when just using the regular alphabet didn't work.

The phonetic alphabet makes sense when using radios (anyone remember the horrible PRC77?) but with telephone conversations, it is just rarely needed. The vast majority of people who have not been in the military or aviation do just fine with using "C as in cat" in the rare instances they require something more clear than C.

I'm a cop so just about everyday. My favorite is "p" Pikachu

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Do you also say tree fife and niner?

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Roger.

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I was just on the phone with a customer service representative and they asked me to spell the city I live in. I did and she kept getting it wrong, so I used the phonetic alphabet. You could tell she was stumped. You’d figure a call center would be trained to use a commonly known system to make calls easier.

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You're an Alpha

Who the frick is Roger?

Is there a different one that LEOs use? I use the phonetic alphabet all the time so it kind of grates on me to hear "Baker" and "Zebra" for example. Former military types are easier to communicate with because you can just say, "I spell...Echo....Alpha...Sierra...Yankee" and both sides know immediately what is being communicated.

Roger ain't in that alphabet, son!

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8 years in the Coast Guard, that thing has been drilled in my head.


They also teach it in the military.

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Brutal.