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[tombogan03884]

You figure out a way to get here and I'll pay for your admission into Mystic Seaport Tom!

Actually, if you can recite the Nautical alphabet, I think it's free or discounted....

I'll start...

ALPHA

Old                                        Current
To many wrong to correct,
Thank you to TW
who posted the correct list below
Able                                                      Alpha
Baker                                                    Bravo
Charlie                                                   Charlie
Dog                                                      Delta
Easy                                                     Echo
Fox                                                      Foxtrot
golf                                                      Golf
Hotel                                                   Hotel
item                                                     Item India  (Thanks to JumboFrank )
Jig                                                       Juliet
Kate                                                     Kilo
Lima                                                     Lima
Mike                                                     Mike
November                                             November
Oscar                                                   Oscar
Peter                                                   Papa
Quebec                                                Quebec
Romeo                                                 Romeo
Sierra                                                   Sierra
Tango                                                  Tango
Uniform                                                 Uniform
Victor                                                   Victor
Willy                                                      Whiskey
X - Ray                                                   X - Ray
Yankee                                                  Yankee
Zulu                                                       Zulu

That's from memory, some one will have to double check me as I lost my 1943 Marine Handbook, Blue Jackets Manual, and my old copy of Chapman's, as well as my more modern Guidebook for Marines.  (Da**ed divorce and moves       )

[Big Frank]

The current one is what I learned in the army except I is India.

[TAB]

I leanred the new one, but that was in 99-00

[tombogan03884]

Thanks Jumbo, when I read your post I thought, "Oh crap, that's #1 wrong  

The current one is what I learned in the army except I is India.

I leanred the new one, but that was in 99-00

They changed it in the late 50's or very early 60's, some to sound clearer over radio, but "J" was changed because "Jig" was a derogatory term for Blacks as well as a fishing term.

[Timothy]

They're pretty easy for me as the Navy designation for Soviet submarines was the same alphabet though not in any particular order.

Well done!  Now, can you recite them to a comely young ticket clerk on a warm spring day in Connecticut?

 

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

Jig is alot mroe then just a lure

[twyacht]

1943 Bluejackets Manual  

A    Afirm Spoken Able                                          K  King                                                  U  Uncle
B    Baker                                                            L  Love                                                  V  Victor
C    Charlie                                                           M  Mike                                                  W  William
D    Dog                                                              N   Negat (Nan) spoken Negative              X  X Ray
E    Easy                                                              O  Option (Oboe) spoken optional             Y Yoke
F    Fox                                                                P  Prep (Peter) spoken prepatory             Z  Zebra
G   George                                                           Q  Queen
H   How                                                               R  Roger
I    Int(Item) Spoken Interrogatory                         S  Sugar
J    Jig                                                                 T  Tare

This manual is going in my bug out bag, never know when Morse Code, Or Semaphore, might be all we have.

"Jig" derogatory? it's a term that's been around longer than any racial crap,...

[tombogan03884]

Jig is alot mroe then just a lure

Thats why I used "fishing term"  

From TW

"Jig" derogatory"

Yes, The evil "N" word wasn't the only one, "smoke", "darky",  and "Jig", a contraction of "Jigaboo", are ones that I remember hearing back in the day.

[TAB]

Its also a type of fixture, a dance, joke/trick and a type of water/solid seperator.

best guess is where it was from( in this context anyways ) was the dance.

[tombogan03884]

Its also a type of fixture, a dance, joke/trick and a type of water/solid seperator.

best guess is where it was from( in this context anyways ) was the dance.

Dance a jig, and "the jig is up" I'm familiar with, the other 2  are new to me.