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-->"X-Ray Delta One, this is Mission Control. Roger your two-zero-one-three. Sorry you fellows are having a bit of trouble. We are reviewing telemetric information in our mission simulator and will advise. Roger your plan to go E.V.A.[[note]]A Three-Letter Acronym which does ''not'' get this treatment[[/note]] and replace Alfa Echo Three Five unit prior to failure."[[note]]The actor playing Mission Control was a real-life air traffic controller.[[/note]]\\

* In ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Tiger Tanaka tells Franchise/JamesBond that the Japanese do not swear. Bond expresses incredulity that Tiger never wants to say [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Freddie Uncle Charlie Katie]].

* Corki the Daring Bombardier from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' makes some use of this when you order him into battle, usually to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar disguise profanity]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Payday 2}}'' is a rather subtle one. You can find a casual looking magazine with the title of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' includes a shield aptly named the [[http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Whisky_Tango_Foxtrot Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]]. When damaged it ejects an "IED booster", which then throws out three volleys of electrical grenades. Players take self-damage in the game, so if you don't run away, your own shield may kill you.

||NATO || WWII (US) || WWII (UK) || APCO Project 2 (used by LAPD)

And that's without getting into the ones used in other languages...

||Juliett[[note]]spelled this way to avoid mispronunciation[[/note]]||Jig||Jig/Johnny||John

* ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder'' uses this for a bit of a GeniusBonus: A character uses "Alpha Mike Foxtrot[[note]] "Adios, Mother Fuckers"[[/note]]" to sign off after [[spoiler:calling in an [[DeathFromAbove airstrike]] on himself because the North Vietnamese were using him as bait for rescue choppers.]]

-->'''Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach''': Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!\\

* In the 2010 ''Film/TheATeam'' movie, [[TheCasanova Face]] uses "Alpha Mike Foxtrot", standing in for "Adios, Mother Fucker" (the full form of which, except for its final use, is hidden by a SoundEffectBleep).

[[folder: Lima India Tango Echo Romeo Alpha Tango Uniform Romeo Echo (Literature) ]]

[[folder: Papa India November Bravo Alpha Lima Lima (Pinball) ]]

* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''[[Pinball/F14Tomcat F-14 Tomcat]]'' identifies the enemy fighters with the NATO alphabet -- Alpha, Bravo, Charle, Delta, Echo, Fox, and Golf. The last opponent is the BigBad, [[GeneralRipper General]] [[GloriousMotherRussia Yagov]].

||Alpha||Able||Able/Affirm||Adam

||Juliet||Jig||Jig/Johnny||John

-->"X-Ray Delta One, this is Mission Control. Roger your two-zero-one-three. Sorry you fellows are having a bit of trouble. We are reviewing telemetric information in our mission simulator and will advise. Roger your plan to go E.V.A.[[note]]A Three-Letter Acronym which does ''not'' get this treatment[[/note]] and replace Alfa Echo Three Five unit prior to failure."\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' 's inability to use this creates a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} in "Skytanic". Seriously, ''Mancy''?

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' is a fairly early example. The B-52 is assigned to targets Yankee-Golf-Tango-three-six-zero and November-Bravo-XRay-one-zero-eight as part of the wing's [[AttackPatternAlpha Attack Plan R for Romeo]], or Robert (used by General Ripper in communication with his RAF exchange officer Mandrake, as per the British Royal Air Force's own pre-NATO phonetic alphabet).

* On ''Series/TheBill'', Sun Hill's callsigns all use the combination Sierra-Oscar. Another police-related drama of the early 1980s, following a female police officer, was named JulietBravo.

* The downloadable platform game BladeKitty has various {{Mooks}} cry out "Oscar Michael Golf" (Oh My God) or "Sierra Oscar Lima" (Shit Outta Luck) as you defeat them

* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 3'' had nav point designations of Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog and Echo, and the fourth game (and the second) uses Greek letters. ''Living Legends'' uses the NATO system for Betty's pronounciation of the alphanumeric base names, up to Golf. ''[[AC:Outpost [[MadLibsDialogue ECHO SIX ]] Captured]].''

[[folder: Television Tare Easy Love Easy Victor Item Sugar Item Oboe Nan (Television) ]]

||NATO || WWII (US) || WWII (UK) || LAPD

* The TV show ''Series/AdamTwelve'' was named for the LAPD patrol car with the call sign "Adam-12 (A-12)" that the cops rode in.

* The LAPD variation is used extensively in ''Series/CHiPS'', with the lead characters' call signs starting with 7M (Seven-Mary), the "M" presumably standing for "motorcycle."

* The downloadable platform game BladeKitty has various {{Mooks}} cry out "Oscar Michael Golf" or "Sierra Oscar Lima" as you defeat them
* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 3'' had nav point designations of Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog and Echo, and the fourth game uses Greek letters. ''Living Legends'' uses the NATO system for Betty's pronounciation of the alphanumeric base names, up to Golf. ''[[AC:Outpost [[MadLibsDialogue ECHO SIX ]] Captured]].''

* In ''Film/StarTrek'', Chekov's includes "victor" twice. The computer still doesn't understand him due to his accent.

* The ''Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy'' features an overly-educated police officer who can never remember "all this Foxtrot Tango Piper business", so he makes up his own using words the sergeant he's reporting to doesn't know - the [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Funny]] is "W for Wagner. No, ''Wagner''!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' 's inability to use this creates a CrowningMomentOfFunny in "Skytanic". Seriously, ''Mancy''?