[ARC5] Acronym Nitpicking

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 12:34 AM 5/15/2013, Mike Morrow wrote:
>Many of those types of prosigns were/are denigrated in typical use
>by the "troops".  I was on the USS Intrepid/CVS-11 in 1971, and
>sometimes was assigned to a position that monitored one of the
>various sound-powered phone circuits for Operations between CIC,
>Surface Plot, lookouts, status boards, etc.  Use of something like
>"NINER" got immediate adverse reaction.  The worst case was "WILCO",
>which would produce anonymous threats of immediate bodily harm to
>any new guy on the phones heard using it.
>
>I considered WILCO to be very "space cadet"-ish myself, even when I
>I first heard it on Navy/MC MARS in 1968.

WILCO has been banned in NAVMARCORMARS for at least the last 30 years.
ROGER is all that is necessary as it is assumed that the party 
addressed will comply.

Perry   w8au