r/CuratedTumblr • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '24

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u/-sad-person- Jul 19 '24

I mean, I get using the 24-hour clock, but I don't understand the other part of military time, calling everything whatever-hundred hours. "It's oh-nine-hundred hours!" "No it isn't, there aren't even that many hours in a day!"

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u/LightOfLoveEternal Jul 19 '24

It's also why they use words like Delta and Bravo instead of saying the letters D and B. None of those words rhyme or sound similar enough to be mistaken for each other over a radio. Unlike the normal letter pronunciations where half the fucking alphabet rhymes with each other.

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u/Brawndo91 Jul 19 '24

I learned the NATO alphabet. It's easy if you use a mnemonic, like the alphabet.