The Navy Call List - Military Phonetic Alphabet

A very well known but seldom used list, although if we practice the use of this list in our day to day lives it not only easens our life but avoida a hell lot of spelling errors for instance I am Raj (Romeo - Alpha - Juliet)

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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 substituted for letters. For example, the word "Army" would be "Alfa Romeo Mike Yankee" when spelled in the phonetic alphabet. This practice helps to prevent confusion between similar sounding letters, such as "m" and "n", and to clarify communications that may be garbled during transmission.

An early version of the phonetic alphabet appears in the 1913 edition of The Bluejackets’ Manual. Found in the Signals section, it was paired with the Alphabetical Code Flags defined in the International Code. Both the meanings of the flags (the letter which they represent) and their names (which make up the phonetic alphabet) were selected by international agreement. Later editions included the Morse code signal as well.

The words chosen to represent some letters have changed since the phonetic alphabet was introduced. When these changes occur, they are made by international agreement. The current phonetic alphabet was adopted in 1957.

Military Phonetic Alphabet

Letter	1957-Present	Morse Code	1913	1927	1938	World War II
A	Alfa (or Alpha)	. _	Able	Affirmative	Afirm	Afirm (Able)
B	Bravo	_ . . .	Boy	Baker	Baker	Baker
C	Charlie	_ . _ .	Cast	Cast	Cast	Charlie
D	Delta	_ . .	Dog	Dog	Dog	Dog
E	Echo	.	Easy	Easy	Easy	Easy
F	Foxtrot	. . _ .	Fox	Fox	Fox	Fox
G	Golf	_ _ .	George	George	George	George
H	Hotel	. . . .	Have	Hypo	Hypo	How
I	India	. .	Item	Interrogatory	Int	Int (Item)
J	Juliett	. _ _ _	Jig	Jig	Jig	Jig
K	Kilo	_ . _	King	King	King	King
L	Lima	. _ . .	Love	Love	Love	Love
M	Mike	_ _	Mike	Mike	Mike	Mike
N	November	_ .	Nan	Negative	Negat	Negat (Nan)
O	Oscar	_ _ _	Oboe	Option	Option	Option (Oboe)
P	Papa	. _ _ .	Pup	Preparatory	Prep	Prep (Peter)
Q	Quebec	_ _ . _	Quack	Quack	Queen	Queen
R	Romeo	. _ .	Rush	Roger	Roger	Roger
S	Sierra	. . .	Sail	Sail	Sail	Sugar
T	Tango	_	Tare	Tare	Tare	Tare
U	Uniform	. . _	Unit	Unit	Unit	Uncle
V	Victor	. . . _	Vice	Vice	Victor	Victor
W	Whiskey	. _ _	Watch	William	William	William
X	X-ray	_ . . _	X-ray	X-ray	X-ray	X-ray
Y	Yankee	_ . _ _	Yoke	Yoke	Yoke	Yoke
Z	Zulu	_ _ . .	Zed	Zed	Zed	Zebra