A few days ago
Question about Milatry lingo?
In old war movies they use the term Roger Wilco what does this mean? Where did it come from and was Roger Wilco a real person?
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A few days ago
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“Roger” comes from using words to transmit letter sounds to avoid confusion (like “alpha company” instead of A company). If you answered on the radio, you started with “roger”, which I think stood for reply or response. “Wilco” is short for “will comply”. “Roger wilco” is the radio equivalent of “Yes sir, right away, sir!”
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A few days ago
It means “Message understood”Where it came from I would guess is from the military use of the alphabet when communicating by radio. To spell out anything, they used words beginning with the letter, such as “Alpha, Beta, Charlie, for A,B, and C. Roger Wilco is not a real person.
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A few days ago
“Roger” was simply a code word meaning “I understand that.” Two way radio communication was (and still is) notoriously “noisy” and unclear. Code words were developed for simplicity (fewer syllables) and to help with understanding. If someone heard something that sounded like “roger” then it could be safely assumed that the word WAS “roger.”
“Wilco” is just a shorted form of “I will cooperate,” meaning I will do what was ordered, or asked.
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A few days ago
like how u say 10 4 they just said that
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