Military Phonetic Alphabet

Letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1957-Present Alfa (or Alpha) Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-ray Yankee Zulu

Morse Code ._ _... _._. _.. . .._. __. .... .. .___ _._ ._.. __ _. ___ .__. __._ ._. ... _ .._ ..._ .__ _.._ _.__ __..

1913 Able Boy Cast Dog Easy Fox George Have Item Jig King Love Mike Nan Oboe Pup Quack Rush Sail Tare Unit Vice Watch X-ray Yoke Zed

1927 Affirmative Baker Cast Dog Easy Fox George Hypo Interrogatory Jig King Love Mike Negative Option Preparatory Quack Roger Sail Tare Unit Vice William X-ray Yoke Zed

1938 Afirm Baker Cast Dog Easy Fox George Hypo Int Jig King Love Mike Negat Option Prep Queen Roger Sail Tare Unit Victor William X-ray Yoke Zed

World War II Afirm (Able) Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox George How Int (Item) Jig King Love Mike Negat (Nan) Option (Oboe) Prep (Peter) Queen Roger Sugar Tare Uncle Victor William X-ray Yoke Zebra

Phonetic Alphabet Tables

Useful for spelling words and names over the phone. I printed this page, cut out the table containing the NATO phonetic alphabet (below), and taped it to the side of my computer monitor when I was a telephone help desk technician.An alternate version, Western Union's phonetic alphabet, is presented in case the NATO version sounds too militaristic to you.I was inspired to recreate this page and post it online when I overheard a co-worker say "L, as in Log" over the phone.
Letter phonetic letter O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-ray Yankee Zulu

NATO Phonetic Alphabet

Letter phonetic letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November

Western Union Phonetic Alphabet

Letter phonetic letter

Letter phonetic letter O Ocean Peter Queen Roger Sugar Thomas Union Victor William X-ray Young Zero

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

Adams P Boston Q Chicago R Denver S Easy T Frank U George V Henry W Ida X John Y King Z Lincoln Mary New York

Here's the whole list:Midnight (12:00 AM) -- 0000 hrs 1:00 AM -- 0100 hrs 2:00 AM -- 0200 hrs 3:00 AM -- 0300 hrs 4:00 AM -- 0400 hrs 5:00 AM -- 0500 hrs 6:00 AM -- 0600 hrs 7:00 AM -- 0700 hrs 8:00 AM -- 0800 hrs 9:00 AM -- 0900 hrs 10:00 AM -- 1000 hrs 11:00 AM -- 1100 hrs 12:00 PM -- 1200 hrs 1:00 PM -- 1300 hrs 2:00 PM -- 1400 hrs 3:00 PM -- 1500 hrs 4:00 PM -- 1600 hrs 5:00 PM -- 1700 hrs 6:00 PM -- 1800 hrs 7:00 PM -- 1900 hrs 8:00 PM -- 2000 hrs 9:00 PM -- 2100 hrs 10:00 PM -- 2200 hrs 11:00 PM -- 2300 hrs For most daily things, military personnel use local time as a reference. In order words, "report to duty at 0700," would mean you have to be at work at 7:00 AM, local time. "The Commander wants to see you at 1500 hrs," means you need to be in the Commander's office at 3:00 PM, local time.When using local time, the Military observes Daylight Savings Time, if recognized by the state or country that the base is located in.When it comes to operational matters (such as communications, training exercises, deployments, ship movements aircraft flights, etc.), the military must often coordinate with bases and personnel located in other time zones. To avoid confusion, in these matters, the military uses the time in Greenwich, England, which is commonly called Greenwich Mean Time(GMT). However, the U.S. Military refers to this time zone as Zulu Time, and they attach the "Zulu" (Z) suffix, to ensure the time-zone referred to is clear.For example, a military message or communication might state, "The ship will cross into the area of operations at 1300Z." That means the ship would arrive in the AOO when it is 1:00 PM in Greenwich, England. Why does the military call this time "Zulu Time?" The world is divided into basically 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone. The time zone for Greenwich, England has been assigned the letter "Z." TheMilitary phonetic alphabet for the letter "Z" is "Zulu."

Phonetic Alphabets of the World

Lette r

NATO & l Aviation

British 1952

Internationa Forces

RAF 194243

Telecom B

British A or Internationa l

NY Police

French German

Italian

Spanish

Alfa

Abel

Apple

Alfred

Amsterdam

Adam

Anatole Anton

Ancona

Antonio

rger

Bravo

Baker

Beer

Benjamin

Baltimore

Boy

Berthe

Berta

Bologna

Barcelona

Charlie

Charlie Charlie

Charles

Casablanca

Charlie

Clesti n

Csar

Como

Carmen

Ch

Charlotte

Chocolate

Delta

Dog

Dog

David

Denmark

David

Dsir

Dora

Domodossol a

Dolores

Echo

Easy

Edward

Edward

Edison

Edwar d

Eugne Emil

Empoli

Enrique

mile

Foxtrot

Fox

Freddy

Frederick

Florida

Frank

Franoi s

Friedrich Firenze

Francia

Golf

George George

George

Gallipoli

George Gaston

Gustav

Genova

Gerona

Hotel

How

Harry

Harry

Havana

Henry

Henri

Heinrich

Hotel

Historia

India

Item

In

Isaac

Italia

Ida

Irma

Ida

Imola

Ins

Phonetic Alphabets of the World

Lette r

NATO & l Aviation

British 1952

Internationa Forces

RAF 194243

Telecom B

British A or Internationa l

NY Police

French German

Italian

Spanish

Juliet

Jig

Jug/Johnny

Jack

Jerusalem

John

Joseph

Julius

I lunga

Jos

Kilo

King

King

King

Kilogram

King

Klber

Kaufman n

Kursaal

Kilo

Lima

Love

Love

London

Liverpool

Lincoln Louis

Ludwig

Livorno

Lorenzo

Ll

Llobregat

Mike

Mike

Mother

Mary

Madagascar

Mary

Marcel

Martha

Milano

Madrid

November

Nan

Nuts

Nellie

New York

Nora

Nicolas Nordpol

Napoli

Navarra

oo

Oscar

Oboe

Orange

Oliver

Oslo

Ocean

Oscar

Otto

Otranto

Oviedo

konom

Papa

Peter

Peter

Peter

Paris

Peter

Pierre

Paula

Padova

Pars

Quebec

Queen Queen

Queen

Quebec

Queen Quintal Quelle

Quarto

Querido

Romeo

Roger

Roger/Rober t

Robert

Roma

Robert Raoul

Richard

Roma

Ramn

Sierra

Sugar

Suga

Samuel

Santiago

Sam

Suzann e

Samuel

Savona

Sbado

Phonetic Alphabets of the World

Lette r

NATO & l Aviation

British 1952

Internationa Forces

RAF 194243

Telecom B

British A or Internationa l

NY Police

French German

Italian

Spanish

Sch

Schule

Tango

Tare

Tommy

Tommy

Tripoli

Tom

Thrs e

Theodor

Torino

Tarragona

Uniform

Uncle

Uncle

Uncle

Uppsala

Union

Ursule

Ulrich

Udine

Ulises

bermut

Victor

Victor

Vic

Victor

Valencia

Victor

Victor

Viktor

Venezia

Valencia

Whisky

Willia m

William

William

Washington

Willia m

William Wilhelm

Washington

Washingto n

X-ray

X-Ray

X-ray

X-ray

Xantippe

X-ray

Xavier

Xanthipp e

Ics

Xiquena

Yankee

Yoke

Yoke/Yorker Yellow

Yokohama

Young

Yvonne Ypsilon

York

Yegua

Zulu

Zebra

Zebra

Zebra

Zrich

Zebra

Zo

Zeppelin

Zara

Zaragoza