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Developed to improve readiness and reduce accident rates and severity.
MILITARY TERM FOR RADIO SILENCE MANUAL
Can also refer to the specific NATOPS manual for each aircraft type. NATOPS – Naval Aviation Training and Operating Procedures Standardization system (pronounced NAY tops) A program of systematized training and procedures development for aircraft and air operations. Said to be given to SONAR GIRLS for tracking a stationary object. NAFOD – (Aviation) Abbreviation for "No Apparent Fear Of Death." What a frightened LSO writes on your grade card. Provides canteens, shops, and other services to the armed forces ashore and afloat. NAAFI - (RN) Navy, Army, and Air Force Institute. While I have attempted to present things with a bit of humor, if you are easily offended this FAQ may not be for you. That may be changing somewhat in these politically correct times, but to Bowdlerize the sailor’s language represented here would be to deny its rich history. Special note: Since days of yore the military in general, and sailors in particular, have often had a rather pithy (dare I say ‘tasteless'?) manner of speech. Terms in ALL-CAPS have a separate listing. Similarly, RCN = Royal Canadian Navy, RAN = Royal Australian Navy, RM = Royal Marines, RNZN = Royal New Zealand Navy, UK = general usage in militaries of the former British Empire I’d just like someone else to tell me why.Naval Terminology, Jargon and Slang FAQ Naval Terminology, Jargon and Slang FAQĬrowell web hosting provided by Haze Gray & Underway.
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Here’s a setter I trust, with an answer in the Inquisitor – an excellently edited series in the Independent – of which I’m certain. Usually, we dissect the wordplay for you let’s try something different. Kludos to Peter please leave entries for this fortnight’s competition and your picks from the broadsheet cryptics below. The runners up are Harlobarlo’s plaintive “Revolutionaries destroy some sultans, etc (not me!)” and Polysmut’s topical “Sons of revolution fiddled census totals” the winner is PeterMooreFuller’s intricate “Cried ‘Liberté, equalité, fraternité. It goes to Ousgg for “No pants and uprising member” can we move on, s’il vous plait? The audacity award goes immediately to Dunnart for “Commando rebels”. Our next cluing challenge is a related verbing: reader, how would you clue GHOSTING? Cluing competition Now, “ radio silence” usually means that you’re upset not to have had a response to a text message, but a military tone makes it sound more urgent, either because you think it is or because you know it isn’t. When it’s your enemy, though – when, say, the Japanese navy goes silent, as in 1941 – it’s much worse. When it’s your ally that stops responding, that’s chilling. The changing popularity of ‘radio silence’.īack then it was, of course, deadly serious. It’s as popular now, at least according to Google Ngrams, as it has been since the 1940s:
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Latter patterĤd Broadcasting code in Israel prohibits communication (5,7) It’s enough to make you turn to the news pages. … of the prime minister electing to GO TO THE COUNTRY.
Meanwhile, in a Telegraph prize puzzle, we are asked to contemplate the giddying prospect …ģd Take a walking holiday? Then Mrs May might do this! (2,2,3,7)
… en route to REAL MADRID, while Nimrod (known locally as Enigmatist) kicks off an Independent prize puzzle with an ingenious clue …Ĩac Reluctant to hurry up the wall along our American borders (10)
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However, that same setter, in a non-prize puzzle, slips in a cameo for crosswording’s favourite unindicted co-conspirator …ġ1ac Trump’s extremely furious with free side of Europe (4,6) … for WINTRY, in a prize puzzle for which the annotated solution is now available.
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