Team SOP - Communication Procedure Words

Concepts

• No Good News - Dont get on radio to say everything is great. ONLY if specific comms windows
• Military/NATO Phonetic Alphabet - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc
• Plain Speak - Talking completely normal
• Pro Words - Procedure words, specific words that mean specific things
• Encryption - codebook, digital, etc
• When starting a conversation with someone, you dont have to constantly say over
• When having a conversation, you don’t have to constantly say “hey you this is me”

Reports

1. CAN - Conditions, Actions, Needs
2. LACE - Liquids, Ammo, Casualties, Equipment
3. SALUTE- Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, and Equipment
4. EMLCOA - Enemy’s Most Likely Course Of Action
5. EMDCOA - Enemy’s Most Dangerous Course Of Action
6. DRAW-D - Defend, Reinforce, Attack, Withdrawal, Delay

Pro / Procedure Words

1. How Copy - how do you read me, do you get my message
2. Over - I am done talking, waiting for a reply
3. Out - I am leaving this net ie turning radio off, etc
4. This Is - designator immediately follows “this is bravo 1”
5. Radio Check - I am here checking my radio
6. Message Follows - something important is coming
7. Be Advised - another important message coming, more precedence than routine traffic
8. Unknown Station - I dont recognize you, may need to reauthenticate
9. Priority (Traffic) - elevating your traffic above routine “higher this is me, priority message follows”
10. Wait One - wait one moment
11. Wait Out - this is going to take me a minute, might have to go check on something
12. Acknowledge - do you understand what I sent you
13. Read Back - tell me what I told you
14. Break - break in transmission, not done yet, during long transmission, let people catch up on writing on receiving end, I’m about to talk again
15. Break, Break, Break - break into someone else’s conversation, two people having a long conversation you need to break into
16. Radio Silence - stop using radios
17. Radio Silence Lifted - start using radios again
18. Relay To / Relay From - “you this is me, relay from HQ, message as follows”
19. Affirmative - yes
20. Negative - no
21. Correct - you are correct
22. Roger - I have received your last message, I understand your last
23. Wilco - I have received and will comply (dont need to use Roger AND Wilco, its dumb)
24. Figures (Follow) - get ready for numbers
25. I Read Back - I’m about to read back what you sent to me
26. I Spell - about to spell something out phonetically
27. More To Follow - hold up, more message coming
28. Say Again - repeat last message
29. Speak Slower - obviously
30. I Understand All Before (this word) / Word After - “say again all after WORD”, “say again word before WORD”
31. Correction (To Last Transmission) - make a correction
32. Disregard - realize you dont need to actually say something or talk to someone
33. I Say Again - make sure you repeat something important “being overrun”
34. All Stations - everybody
35. Any Station - somebody
36. Lima Charlie - loud and clear
37. Klicks - Kilometers
38. Delta Hotel - direct hit
39. Mikes - minutes
40. Oscar Mike - on the move
41. Stepped On - someone talking over you