Military Acronyms and Terms
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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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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.