* Oscar, the letter O in the NATO phonetic alphabet

Yankee is the code word for the letter " Y " in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

** NATO phonetic alphabet: the most widespread such set ( Alfa, Bravo, Charlie ,...)

* The letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet

After the phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) ( see history below ) it was adopted by many other international and national organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), the American Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ( ATIS ), and the American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ).

A common name for this spelling alphabet, " NATO phonetic alphabet ," exists because it appears in Allied Tactical Publication ATP-1, Volume II: Allied Maritime Signal and Maneuvering Book used by all allied navies of NATO, which adopted a modified form of the International Code of Signals.

The name NATO phonetic alphabet became widespread because the signals used to facilitate the naval communications and tactics of NATO have become global.

American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. " Victor " and " Charlie " are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

In the North Atlantic basin, subtropical cyclones were initially named from the NATO phonetic alphabet list in the early to mid-1970s.

It was named Camp X-Ray because various temporary camps in the station were named sequentially from the beginning and then from the end of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Initially nicknamed the " Whiskey " ( NATO phonetic for the " W " modifier ), the MC-130W was officially dubbed the Combat Spear in May 2007 to honor the historical legacy of the Combat Talons in Vietnam.

In Minnesota, DUI plates are referred to as " whiskey plates ", whiskey being the name of the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

These have now all been superseded by the NATO phonetic alphabet.

The original Royal Navy of World War I spelling alphabet differed more from the later NATO phonetic alphabet than the RAF radiotelephony spelling alphabet, with its use of the words " Apples " for " A ", " Butter " for " B ", " Duff " for " D ", " Pudding " for " P ", " Queenie " for " Q ", " Tommy " for " T ", " Vinegar " for " V ", " Willie " for " W ", " Xerxes " for " X ", and " Yellow " for " Y.

The name Charlie came from the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet ; similarly for other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn from the West: Checkpoint Alpha at and its counterpart Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, Wannsee in the south-west corner of Berlin.

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CB users may use the NATO phonetic alphabet and ten-codes.

* Sierra, the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S

* The letter " B " in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The name derived from it being the geographic reference point " Y ", pronounced " Yankee " in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Indeed it might be a more appropriate vehicle than NATO for the development of a parliamentary organ of the Atlantic nations, because it could encompass all of the members of the Atlantic community including those, like Sweden and Switzerland, who are unwilling to be associated with an essentially military alliance like Aj.

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.

The military has been prepared to be more compatible with NATO, as co-operation with NATO in peacekeeping is needed, but military alliance does not have popular support.

As the term was used in Germany and other NATO countries, it referred to the decision of a country to not challenge a more powerful neighbor in foreign politics while maintaining national sovereignty.

A machine gun is a fully automatic emplaceable weapon, most often separated from other classes of automatic weapon by the use of belt-fed ammunition ( though some designs employ drum, pan or hopper magazines ), generally in a rifle-inspired caliber ranging between 5. 56 × 45mm NATO (. 223 Remington ) for a light machine gun to as large as. 50 BMG or even more larger for crewed or aircraft weapons.

The November 7 elections determined that more than 77 % of the population voted in favor to NATO membership.

NATO likewise expanded to include these countries, despite protestations from Russia which was growing more assertive.

This political isolation became more pronounced when Lithuania and Poland both became members of the European Union and NATO, as well as entering the Schengen Zone, which means that the oblast is surrounded by territories affiliated with these institutions as well.

* In June, 2011, NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) experienced a security breach that led to the public release of first and last names, usernames, and passwords for more than 11, 000 registered users of their e-Bookshop.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

Powell claimed that the debate was now more political than military ; that Britain did not possess an independent deterrent and that through NATO Britain was tied to the nuclear deterrence theory of the United States.

Reforms relating to domestic affairs, the entry to NATO in 1999 and the accession process to the European Union led to conflicts within the coalition, with many members moving to the more liberal Civic Platform, the right-wing Law and Justice party, or the Movement for Reconstruction of Poland ).

In 1999, Russia opposed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia for more than two months ( see Kosovo War ), but later joined NATO peace-keeping forces in the Balkans in June 1999.

In contrast to the TCSEC's precisely defined hierarchy of six evaluation classes, the more recently introduced Common Criteria ( CC )— which derive from a blend of more or less technically mature standards from various NATO countries — provide a more tenuous spectrum of seven " evaluation classes " that intermix features and assurances in an arguably non-hierarchical manner and lack the philosophic precision and mathematical stricture of the TCSEC.

The government of Iceland contributes financially to NATO's international overhead costs and recently has taken a more active role in NATO deliberations and planning.

The vice-amiral rank used to be an OF-8 rank in NATO charts, but nowadays, it is more an OF-7 rank.

Key among these are that its rifling cannot accurately stabilize modern rounds and its blowback operation is so strong it can tear apart standard 5. 56mm NATO brass cases.

Air space is patrolled by jet fighters from other NATO members, which are based out of the city Šiauliai ( Zokniai Airport, known as the Aviation base ) ( see Baltic Air Policing ).

Becoming the world's second nuclear weapons power, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact alliance and entered into a struggle for global dominance, known as the Cold War, with the United States and NATO.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

Evidence has emerged to support this view of American involvement in overarching the strategy of tension and of known strong American foreign policies against the then looming historic ( unprecedented in post war times ) coalition that would have admitted the eurocommunist PCI into a government of national unity, the fear on the US side being that Italy thereafter might withdraw from NATO and that the US would then lose access to vital Mediterranean ports.

* 1957-Launch of the first ICBM, the USSR's R-7 ( 8K71 ), known to NATO as the SS-6 Sapwood.

However the integration of the armed forces into NATO did not begin until after the Korean War, to which Belgium ( in co-operation with Luxembourg ) sent a detachment known as the Belgian United Nations Command.

The NATO Air Standardization Coordinating Committee reporting name system ( used because correct designation of new types not always known ) was based on having the initial letter indicate type of aircraft ( B

One well known example is that bolt action rifles designed for the. 223 Remington can usually safely fire the more powerful 5. 56x45mm NATO, while auto-loaders might malfunction.

Prior to becoming a NATO CoE, the institute was known as the Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre ( ENTEC ) and it was located in Munich.

In 1998, at the NATO summit, Albright articulated what would become known as the " three Ds " of NATO, " which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that

It was known for its support of the United States in the Vietnam War, the support for NATO and strong criticism of Olof Palme then Prime Minister of Sweden.

Moisiu was found fitting for that post since he was a researcher, was politically neutral, was known as an effective mediator ( a quality much appreciated in Albania, which tends to inner quarrels ) and had a decisive pro-Western and NATO orientation.

During the Cold War Frankfurt-Hahn Airport was a frontline NATO facility known as Hahn Air Base.

Up until the end of the Cold War, determining realistic orders of battle was generally an orderly but extremely frustrating process for NATO because although the Warsaw Pact nations had well known doctrines, tactics, techniques and procedures, in actuality, the characteristics of Soviet forces fluctuated often, significantly, and changes often went undetected for years at below-division levels.

Casteau is known worldwide because SHAPE, the military headquarters of NATO, has been based at the village since 1967.

Consequently, DWM produced an enlarged version of the round, the 9 mm Parabellum ( known in current military parlance as the 9x19 mm NATO ), a necked-up version of the 7. 65 mm round.

To the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-6 Sapwood and within the Soviet Union by the GRAU index 8K71.

Equally, the NATO standard SDIP-27 ( before 2006 known as AMSG 720B, AMSG 788A, and AMSG 784 ) is still classified.

The most complex data models known are in military use, and consortia such as NATO tend to require strict standards of their members ' equipment and supply databases.

NATO 7. 62 mm ball manufactured by some countries, such as Germany and Sweden, are also known to fragment due to jacket construction.

The submarine-launched version of this missile was also designated as an SS-N-22 Sunburn by NATO but was known to the Soviets as the P-100 Oniks.