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.

 
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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!