Amber Alert question

[FightinAggieCHL]

I'm going to reiterate the radio numbers and alphabet that the Navy uses, just as a quick reminder.

1- Wun
2- Twoo
3- Tree
4- Fower
5 -Fife
6- Six
7- Se-ven
8- Ate
9- Niner
0- Zee-ro

Remember if you are going to use mult-digit numbers, say each digit individually. 315 would be "tree-wun-fife" as opposed to 350 which is "tree-fife-zee-ro."

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee (I have a tendency to say Yoke)
Zulu

Hope that helps as a quick refresher.

[Liberty]

I'm going to reiterate the radio numbers and alphabet that the Navy uses, just as a quick reminder.

1- Wun
2- Twoo
3- Tree
4- Fower
5 -Fife
6- Six
7- Se-ven
8- Ate
9- Niner
0- Zee-ro

Remember if you are going to use mult-digit numbers, say each digit individually. 315 would be "tree-wun-fife" as opposed to 350 which is "tree-fife-zee-ro."

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee (I have a tendency to say Yoke)
Zulu

Hope that helps as a quick refresher.

As I understand ithis is pretty universal. Boyscouts , Hams and Military have had success with this for years. I could never undersnd why some departments have to do it differently. A tiny example of why so many departments don't work together well.

[seamusTX]

As I understand ithis is pretty universal. Boyscouts , Hams and Military have had success with this for years. I could never undersnd why some departments have to do it differently.

There's always room for improvement. Sometimes change isn't needed, and sometimes it's not really an improvement, but that's the way things go.

(Otherwise, we would be talking about clubs and spears, not modern handguns.)

On this whole issue, human beings aren't robots. The people who answer 911 calls are used to talking to callers who are panicked, excited, injured, don't speak English well, etc. They probably will get it right in the end.

- Jim

[Liberty]

As I understand ithis is pretty universal. Boyscouts , Hams and Military have had success with this for years. I could never understand why some departments have to do it differently.

There's always room for improvement. Sometimes change isn't needed, and sometimes it's not really an improvement, but that's the way things go.

(Otherwise, we would be talking about clubs and spears, not modern handguns.)

On this whole issue, human beings aren't robots. The people who answer 911 calls are used to talking to callers who are panicked, excited, injured, don't speak English well, etc. They probably will get it right in the end.

- Jim

We have a big problem in this country. Different emergency groups don't work together very well. Some progress has been made with adoptions of things like the "incident command system" and a lot of work and money has been spent getting radio equipment and frequencys working with local agencys. But some people/agencys just seem to work against the whole idea buy adopting a different phonetic alphabet system. Sometimes standards are more important than slight improvements.

911 dispatchers have an amazingly tough job, and they somehow manage to get the right people to the right place with the right information. Their job is more stress full that the folks they are dispatching. Their job is made even more complex when they need too communicate with different agencies that often speak a different language. The Armed forces and the individual departments standardize for a good reason. poor communication can get people killed. Today agencies and municipalities need to work together more than ever. Even a seemingly small incident like a traffic accident can involve 5 or 6 agencies.

Local Police
Fire Department for jaws of life or Lifeflight Landing zone
DPS mandated in some cases
Life flight personnel
County Sheriff or Constable
Ambulance

A major disaster, an industrial accident or terrorist attack can involve hundreds of agencies. Those that decide to use the non standard phoenitic alphabet or radio procedure just make an opportunity for confusions. Some departments have moved away from things like the 10 codes ... simply because slight differences between departments have caused misinterpretations.

10-4?

[seamusTX]

No argument there. Bureaucratic turf battles do a lot of damage and cost us money.

10- codes never made sense to me. The cops aren't paying by the minute to talk on the radio, and everybody who wanted to know what those codes meant could find out, even before the Internet.

- Jim