"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Stan Prevost wrote:

Wouldn't they have brought back TARE UNCLE?

No, the British slang they brought back is "tits up." Rephrasing it as
"Tango
Uniform" is purely American.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.


But if they rephrased it into the WWII phonetic alphabet in use by US
forces, it would have been TARE UNCLE.