You don't hear much old-school military radio traffic anymore. Except for a few front-line radio nets, most radio chatter has been replaced by the endless, silent interplay of text messages, emails and Web postings. With that shift, we have lost an entire dialect of martial radio-speak. Sure, the approved terms-roger, wilco, prepare to copy, say again-remain in the training cur- ricula. But the unofficial lexicon has dried up. You rarely hear today's sergeants and lieutenants asking "how do you read this station?" That certainly is a tribute to the crystal clarity offered by modern digital equipment. And you certainly never hear the old standby before rendering a report: "Be advised." Nobody is advised of anything in today's U.S. armed forces. They already have read the text and have moved on.
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