European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday april 20,1987 columns comments today s crossword getting teed off Over teed up by William Safire by no mean wait really teed up Tor thai phrase. To crop was used by Hen while House chief or sniff Donald t. Regan in testimony before the Tower commission. I defined in Here to mean spelled out As if to a child or someone unfamiliar with t lie language explained so Hal undemanding is not his meaning Al All Regan corrects me. Al though he has suffered in silence the savaging of the Media and has saved for his memoirs any riposte to backstabbing from he East Wing he has taken pen in hand in set sir flight Tor future historians and commit Tec chairmen a couple of mailers linguistic. The Man hut his priorities straight. Since 1 play Golf As often As possible he write about teed up but never As much As i want i was using in in a True Golf sense. To let up the Bat mean for someone to put a tee Peg into the ground and place a Ball on it Alt the golfer then has to do is hit the bait assuming he hat the capability Regan interrupts himself to reminisce in the old Days a Caddy acl Aljy used to Lee up a Ball for his player i must add. Though today one usually has tote up one s own Ball due to me Lack of pm sur ably those absent caddies now have belter higher paying jobs because of the rising economic tide in the Reagan years i was Irving to Lell the commission he continues Hal the Issue had not been really defined Well enough to be ready for the president. Filer we did discuss in More detail the Downside risk of revelation of swapping arms for hostages let the record show that fee up which to some linguistic duffers Means spell out patiently Means Curie tailing Back with this added thought from can Jim Barber it executive director "b-2 is one of the two letter designator for specific Flag hoist dashing Light aha it comes from semaphore and the use of Haglo indicate letters a phonetic practice picked up by the radio operator from the wavers of signal Flag the Teller b can be signalled by a solid red Flag which by itself stands for take care ammunition 11 being taken the hoist of b Over z meant Job Well done now the question is Why that particular combination was chosen to have that meaning. Nobody has yet come Forward with a reason. Generations ago b Over z was expressed As Baker Zebor when North Atlantic treaty organization code changed bal ctr to Bravo the meaning of Job Well done1 was reinforced and passed into the everyday speech of military bureaucrats. The question arises what is the opposite at the Delta Dag says Captain Barber not quite addressing the Issue is what you d want to How to indicate trouble in the International code the Lefler u is used for you Are standing into Dan Ger and the Delta p Means keep Clear of me. I am mane vering with difficulty however whenever you ask anybody in Annapolis or at the Pentagon for the code thatis the precise opposite of Bravo Zulu you get a lot of double talk about secret codes i there no signal for boy Oboy did you botch Hall must the signal for criticism be classified As secret Are reaction limited to ayes Only Here s the real Story which you will not find in any reference Book or secret nato code and which has been passed to me from a non Annapolis source strictly for non attribution the phrase used in Blister meaning to upset or Donald Regan was not the Only former Serviceman to take Issue with some of the terms discussed in that philological analysis of the Tower report a broadside from old Salu has been followed by an invasion of my Mailbox by irate grunts or infantrymen. Subject etymology inaccurate or incomplete of terminology military. That s How to write in service use always follow the noun with a comma and the modifier. The War department bought a billion mra commas Dur ing world War ii and the defense department is determined to use them up. Hence signs like Gar Bage inedible add this to the pile of letters you Are receiving about overhead writes Garland Hicks of mount Kisto n.y., referring to my definition of this term As roof i had assumed to so through the overhead was a simple variant of logo through the roof. In the Navy the stairs Are the ladder the floor is the do Csc the Wall is the Bulkhead and the ceiling is the i did t gel a Bravo Zulu for that in fad my explanation of this phrase As radio phonetic code for Job Well done was shallow. The naval Institute in an Napolis to which i had turned for guidance in this. 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