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Old 11th October 2002, 01:01 AM   #181 (permalink)
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'zulu' is the military equivlent of 'Greenwich Mean Time' - GMT. Using the abbrev for GMT over a radio - it's too easiely lost in transmission and using the full name is too long. 'Zulu' is easily understood over a radio and keeps everyone on the same timeframe.

Very important if you're doing an internation mission or one that spans several 'time zones'.

I just think it was cool that they researched it enough to use that and use it right.

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