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Watched a movie with U.S. Army in it...what does Alpha mean?
I went to the theatre and watch the Green Zone movie last week with my boyfriend. In the movie, they started to panic and call off some information to each other about what they were after. During it, they kept saying things like Alpha Bravo and Zooloo (or zulu or zuloo or HOWEVER you would spell it). Are these army slang for location or something? I couldn't figure out what or who might be Alpha or something so...what did it mean? If it's army talk for something then can somebody tell me more army words just for future reference? THANKSSS
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I went to watch it last week with my boyfriend too :)
Instead of letters, they say words. You can't make mistakes that way. You must have heard it other places too, like when police use it for example.
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Anyone who uses radios to talk to each other know that you can't always understand what the other person is saying. C's can sound like B's etc. So they use what's called a phonetic alphabet, alpha means A, zulu-Z etc. And they spell out words and information to make sure its clear.
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