Monday, April 4, 2011

Military Life from Alpha to Zulu

One of my fellow bloggy friends at Riding the Roller Coaster came up with a pretty cool idea and I decided to join in, just for fun :) Basically, we're using the military alphabet to describe what military life is like.
 
Click the tag for more info or to link up with your own list
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Here's my list:

ALPHA
AIT (Advanced Individual Training, Afghanistan, Active duty, American Flag, APO address, Acronyms!

BRAVO
BCT (Basic Combat Training), BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing), Batteries, Bravery

CHARLIE
Care Packages, Camoflauge, CO (Commanding Officer), CONUS (Continental United States), Change, Comissary

DELTA
Deployments, DOD (Department of Defense), Dependents, Dog tags, DONSAs, Donut of Misery

ECHO
Equipment, Emotional, ETS (Experation of Term of Service), Emails

FOXTROT
Far Away from family, Flexibility, Friends, FRG (Family Readiness Group)

GOLF
Goodbyes

HOTEL
Hurry up and wait, Haircuts, Hooah, Help, Homecomings!

INDIA
Iraq, ID card

JULIET
JPPSO (Army's moving department), "Just in case"

KILO
Kevlar, Knowledge

LIMA
Leave, Love, Long distance relationships, Lonely, Letters

MIKE
Missions, Moving, MWR, Military discounts , Mail

NOVEMBER
Name tapes, NCO (non-commissioned officer)

OSCAR
OPSEC, Orders

PAPA
PCS (Permanent Change of Station), Paperwork, Promotion, PTSD, PT tests, Photos, Px, Packing

QUEBEC
Q-course (for SF guys), Quality time together (we cherish it)

ROMEO
Red Fridays, Ruck Sack, R&R, Rental houses

SIERRA
Single Parenting, Skype, "Sponsor's Social please", Staff duty, Sacrifice 

TANGO
Tricare, Training, Text messages, Tears

UNIFORM
Uniforms, Uncertainty, Unexpected Changes, Unpacking boxes

VICTOR
Veterans, Volunteers

WHISKEY
Webcams, War, Wondering, Worry

X-RAY

YANKEE
Yellow Ribbons

ZULU
Zero Tolerance



I can't think of any more right now? I'll come back to it later :) Leave me a comment and help me out if you want!

2 comments:

  1. Awesome list!! I love how creative you got. :)

    Thank you so much for participating and linking up with me today. Now I need to get going and add all these great answers to my main list!

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