Are the NATO phonetic alphabet letters "romeo echo delta tango golf romeo" of any significance?

Question

Any order, Forward or reverse.

Answer 1

Awww... you mean "Operation Red Tiger"? too bad.. i could tell you... but then I'd have to NUT you... first.

Answer 2

As far as the letter's in that order meaning anything, I don't think so. I know as part of the FAA working as an air traffic controller we use the phonetic alphabet each and every day at work talking to pilots to avoid different dialects, pronunciations and eliminate confusion. That's only one of many examples this alphabet is used.

Here's a little more about it from Wikipedia: The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. Though often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets have no connection to phonetic transcription systems like the International Phonetic Alphabet. Instead, the NATO alphabet assigns code words to the letters of the English alphabet acrophonically so that critical combinations of letters (and numbers) can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language, especially when the safety of navigation or persons is essential. It is used by many national and international organizations, including the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). It is a subset of the much older International Code of Signals (INTERCO), which originally included visual signals by flags or flashing light, sound signals by whistle, siren, foghorn, or bell, as well as one, two, or three letter codes for many phrases.[1] The same alphabetic code words are used by all agencies, but each agency chooses one of two different sets of numeric code words. NATO uses the normal English numeric words (Zero, One, with some alternative pronunciations), whereas the IMO uses compound numeric words (Nadazero, Unaone).