Military Acronyms and Terms

Guess what? AFTB begins at 0900 in the conference room at the ACS Building on Charlie Oscar Romeo Papa Sierra Blvd.

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Course Objectives

• Identify common military acronyms and terms.

• Spell words using the military phonetic alphabet.

• Convert between military time and conventional time.

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What did you say… Alphabet Soup?

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Name November

Alpha

Mike

Echo

What Are You Spelling?

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1600 4:00 pm

0200 2:00 am

2400 12:00 am - midnight

1200 12:00 pm - noon

1000 10:00 am

What Time is it?

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Converting Time

1:00 0100/1300

2:00 0200/1400

3:00 0300/1500

4:00 0400/1600

5:00 0500/1700

6:00 0600/1800

7:00 0700/1900

8:00 0800/2000

9:00 0900/2100

10:00 1000/2200

11:00 1100/2300

12:00 1200/2400

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Tips for Converting Time

The first twelve hours of the day• Always has four numbers• Delete the colon• before 10:00 am, add a zero

– 7:00 am to 0700• 10:00 am to 12:00 pm it is read

without the colon.– 11:00 am to 1100

The first twelve hours of the day• Insert the colon• Before 1000, delete the zero

– 0700 to 7:00 am• 1000 to 1200 insert the colon and

read with am or pm– 1100 to 11:00 am

Conventional to MilitaryMilitary to Conventional

The remaining twelve hours – between noon and midnight

• Delete the colon• Just add twelve hours to the

conventional time– 11:00 pm to 2300

• Subtract twelve hours• Insert the colon

– 2300 to 11:00 pm

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Course Objectives

• Identify common military acronyms and terms.

• Spell words using the military phonetic alphabet.

• Convert between military time and conventional time.

Military Acronyms and Terms

Guess what? AFTB begins at 0900 in the conference room at the ACS Building on Charlie Oscar Romeo Papa Sierra Blvd.