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I was a combat medic in the US ARMY from 1982-to 1986. To communicate by radio with air ambulance "Dust Offs' These numbers were pronounced in this manner. I have a manual that shows this. It was also presented in our Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood MO. My Medic training was at Fort Sam Houston TX. I was deployed to South Korea and spent a 13 month tour, on the DMZ with the 2nd Inf Div, 3rd Bde, 1/9 infantry Btn. HHC 2nd Platoon, section leader and Batallion Pharmacy (Acting Pharmacist) for the last 4 months of the tour. I participated in 16 Dustoffs 8 of which were serious training mishaps, 5 Training missions and 2 deaths from enemy fire across the DMZ, and one demonstration for President Regan when he made his "historic" visit to Camp Liberty Bell, North of the 38th paralell. You don't forget training like that. I don't know in what or were you served, but why are you going through the trouble of questionng a fellow Veteran?

I remember now, it read like this.

Ze-Ro- Wun-Too- Tree- Fo'er- Fife-Six- Seh-ven-Ait- Niner-Ten- Maybe your radios were better than ours. and maybe I should have not said US Armed Forces but stated my expierence. Sorry for the confusion. These are also NATO, so I don't know why you were not trained in them

The phonetic alphabet is another regulation way of talking over the R/T or radio. For the benefit of those unfamiliar I will post this;
To phoeticly spell a word you use this

A= Alpha B= Bravo C= Charlie D= Delta E= Echo F= Foxtrot G= Golf H= Hotel I= India J=Juliette K=Kilo L=Lima M=Mike N= November O= Oscar
P= Papa Q=Quebec R=Romeo S= Sierra T= Tango U=Uniform V=Victor W= Wiskey X= X -Ray Y= Yankee Z-Zebra

So to spell a word like "IL2 Stumovik 1946 it Would SOUND like.......I SPELL, IN-DEE-YA LEE-MA TOO SIE AIR RA TANG-GO U- NEE FORM MIKE OS-CAR VIC-TOR IN-DEE-YA - KEE-LO WUN NINER FO'RE SIX...Over

Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_spelling_alphabet

The reference is a bit different than I remember, but you get the general idea. Of course this has very little to do with the original post.