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Sep 20, 2016 sara gillingham, alpha, bravo, charlie. I printed this page, cut out the table containing the nato phonetic alphabet below, and taped it to the side of my computer monitor when i was a call center help desk technician. Alpha, bravo, charlie book the seattle public library. Practice communicating in semaphore code and craft your name using nautical signal flags.
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