In these examples, pilots will instead say Mike, November, Bravo, and Victor. The full phonetic alphabet is listed below: A ...

Jim Witherell: Ack, Beer, Kilogramme, Uppsala, Xanthippe and other words that saved lives and led to our current phonetic alphabet. Remember the last time you were at a concert or sporting event ...

Some of these words include "Alpha," "Bravo," and "Charlie." Each word in the military phonetic alphabet corresponds to a letter of the regular English alphabet. In order to make sure everyone is ...