Tango Uniform

m pautz wrote:
Jim Fisher wrote:

What is the etymology of Tango Uniform?

I'm guessing "tails up" or "tits up" but anyone know for sure?

I have always heard it as Tits Up as a description for dead. If it
were
"toes up" or "tails up", there would be no need to "sanitize" it.

It's my understanding that the police are now using DRT to describe a

dead perpetrator. That means Dead Right There.

We use DRT quite a lot, in the Fire/EMS service. Refers to any patient
who is obviously dead.
John
student pilot
FME/FMFA
vol. FF/EMT

Morgans wrote:

Union; note that different bodies prefer different spellings, so one also
sees: Alfa Juliett Juliette Oskar Viktor]

The alphabet has to sound approximately the same in all languages, but
cannot be written the same in all languages so that it sounds the same.
For example, Zulu, in some languages there is not even a Z sounding, so
I guess they would have to write it in a way which would sound similar
enough.

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