Playing the Semantics Card because you don't know how to be precise, in Military Life an attitude like that gets people killed. Good RT is about Professionalism and therefore survival on the battlefield, no um's, err's or colloquial speech and definitely nothing that is surplus to the requirements. It makes sense but it's unneccessary and increases any transmission time, improving chance of DF and floods the Net with needless verbosity and white noise.įundamentally ABC applies, Accuracy Brevity Clarity, if you want unnecessary "Verbage/ Verbosity" then expect Enemy Direction Finding/ EW kit to pin-point you quickly and Jam you or better yet give you a Salvo of Artillery on your position. You could say, transmit or respond WILCO in response to any of these methods by verbal, text or any other approved means. You can receive Instructions by Data-link (e.g Link 16, Link 22) by say secure data link, encrypted transmission of Signals or by any other form of Signal. NATO Definition of WILCO is exactly what it states it does not explicitly designate the way in which the instructions are sent e.g Any Medium not explicitly Radio transmissions.ģ9 - WILCO - Will comply with received instructions WILCO is completely unneccessary, as is the OSCAR-MIKE nonsense. "Callsign 2 this is Callsign 1, Go here, do this, over" "Callsign 1 this is Callsign 2, Roger Out". It's called Orders and Chain of Command, Obedience is not something you would give, it's obligatory. Will Comply or WILCO implies that Obedience is optional, it isn't it's intrinsic. I have never heard it said and it's completely unnecessary.Ī similar custom regards the Naval "Aye, Aye Sir" e.g "Yes I understand, Yes I will Carry it out, Sir". SFOD-D (Delta Force, the US Army's rip off of the SAS)īritish Military Forces do not say "WILCO". Those units are:ĭEVGRU (Seal Team Six as they're more commonly, yet incorrectly known) While the Alpha has not explicitly stated it is the US Army, there's actually a picture listing all playable units in Arma 3 (though it may or may not have changed).
The US considers that to be an extremely important thing, hence why we were forbidden from using it even though it's not incorrect. The way the US Army trained us was that since Wilco implies you understood, hence why you're complying with the order, not to say Roger along with it as a means to keep all non critical radio chatter to a minimum.
MultiCams have been issued to soldiers deploying to Afghanistan for the last couple years, and soon you won't see ACUs anywhere. The US Army is actually in the midst of phasing out the worthless ACUs for MultiCams as they have been proven more effective to anyone with a pair of eyes. I wasn't actually ranting, I just put that at the end as a joke since I basically wrote an essay. It may be used correctly, but NOT accurately. It would be like saying it's accurate to have an American say "lorry" instead of "car" because "lorry" is used in other English speaking countries. So, I stress, while hearing other countries say roger wilco, it may be correct, it would never be correct to hear the US Army say it. The other NATO forces you play as are Special Operations units, not other assisting armies. Therefore, radio communications from the US Army would be going to the US Army, not other NATO forces. They don t jumble up their units all together, they all have different sectors and wouldn't likely work together on a large scale. While technically true, you're only watching one country. Second, you play as NATO in the sense that when watching Saving Private Ryan, you're watching the Allies fight. Whether it's acceptable as NATO communications procedure, someone who has been trained NOT to do it for years isn't going to start saying it that way just because it's acceptable. Now, let's look at your claim of since you play as NATO forces, you will somehow adopt a different radio etiquette.įirst off, that's not true, nor even feasible if you've been trained one way for years. As I've said, it was hammered into us never to use roger and wilco together considering wilco is saying I understand and will comply. Radio communications, along with several other things, were very big and we had constant training on it. However, I was in a reconnaissance unit in the US Army.
Several of my friends served in the Navy, and only one of them ever even used a radio. Is it the US? If so, then apparently not if you've never been trained not to use Roger and Wilco together.
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