The Military Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet. A phonetic alphabet is a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone. Spoken words from an approved list are ...

While you might think people are just picking random words—and indeed some might be—there is actually a defined military phonetic alphabet that was established over the first half of the 1900s ...

"Alfa, Bravo, Charlie …" is an alphabet ... code that somehow is made up of letters that all sound the same. Or how about when someone says, "Meet me here at 1400?" The military time system ...