In honor of Memorial Day and the all that gave some, some that gave all. As a child of a veteran and having a spouse that is a veteran, I am very familiar with this alphabet. I also used it when, in my youth we were using ship to shore radio on our sailboat.
The history that follows will explain PART of the caches. I am going to do a series of caches in the Memphis area that are either placed using the alphabetic name contained in the location name ie: Alpha, Bravo etc. OR that the letter has some significance to the TYPE of location that it is hidden. I hope to make these fun, challenging and maybe even a bit exciting. There will be a total of 26 hopefully all placed in 2015.
The Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet was a radio alphabet developed in 1941 and was used by all branches of the United States military until the promulgation of the ICAO spelling alphabet (Alfa, Bravo) in 1956, which replaced it. The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or ICAO spelling alphabet, as well as the ITU phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet assigned code words acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of language barriers or the presence of transmission static.
The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.
Each cache will be unique in both the placement and type of cache. This is the first in a series of 26, yes 26 of these. This particular cache is a micro, bring your own pen.