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When Google and urbandictionary are Not Helping

Aug 3, 2015, 5:03 PM
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motorhead
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life

Off topic: Has anyone been watching "The Last Ship" on TNT? Especially the ex-military guys. Several times in recent episodes, the Navy guys have used the term "Whiskey". By the context, it must mean "location".

Examples: "what is your whiskey?" Or "The extraction point is 500 yards north of my whiskey"

It must refer to location or position but I've never heard this before. What does it mean. And no, in this context it's used for letters of the alphabet like papa tango whiskey

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motorhead

Sorry, NOT used for letters of the alphabet ...

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georgmicrodong

I've never heard "whiskey" used in that context, but it could be whiskey = W = whereabouts.

It's a stretch, but it's all that comes to mind.

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GACA

Weird I always heard the use of '20', must be a new thing

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Dolomite35

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey is the letter W in the phonetic alphabet. Not sure exactly how W means position. Maybe GMD is right. Normally location is your 20.

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mikeya02

Don't NFL QB's call out Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

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Papi_Chulo

I don't drink so IDK :)

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mjx01

assuming that they are using military slang correctly, whiskey = W... which should code for a word beginning with W. Can't give you a better guess than what GMD said. Unless they are just making shit up.

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PhantomGeek

Michael Bay and his crew? Make stuff up? Not worry about accuracy or authenticity? Oh, pshaw! I checked out a couple of sites, just out of curiosity, and couldn't find it. But I did find "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" -- What The Fuck!

en.wiktionary.org

navy.com

ussrankin.org

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ilbbaicnl

GMD's guess sounds like a good one.

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