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by Drinking Dano on April 25th, 2004
Not to be a stickler here, but the question is what is the complete "NATO" phonetic Alphabet. It ISN'T what do the Americans use?
If you look it up in "The Warrior's Handbook" from the Canadian Armed Forces, or the "Basic Recruit Manual" in the British Armed Forces or the "Basic Training" Manual from the Australian Defence Force, you'll find that the actual NATO usage is "Mama" not "Mike".
At least, THIS is the information that Canada, The United Kingdom and Australia is giving its troopers. All NATO countries. While the US is, of course, a NATO country, lets face it, it's quite likely that the US *IS* using "Mike" as the "M", because, well, not many organizations tell the Americans how to say things!
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Mike used by the British military from around 1943 onwards, replacing Monkey. Mama would be too similar to Lima anyway.
by Quirkie on December 14th, 2004
My Warrior's handbook says "Mama"
by snafubg on December 30th, 2004
Okay, you cited a reference so I'll cut you some slack :) Warriors Handbook, huh? Sounds interesting.
by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on February 1st, 2005
Having been assigned as liasion to units in the BRD, UK, Canada, and France, the term used is MIKE NOT MAMA--MAMA WAS dropped
by RJTRIES on March 15th, 2006
Despite what Dano says about Americans, the American armed forces use the same standard NATO phonetic alphabet every other NATO (and many other) militaries use. The old "American" phonetics "able, baker, charlie, dog, easy, fox, green ... etc. haven't been used in decades. I was in the US Navy from 1975 - 1984 and the NATO "alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf ..." was universally used for communication.
by jrbowler on June 3rd, 2010
I'm in the Aus. Army and we use Mike
by Lachlan_B on January 29th, 2011