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Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day.

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Not to state the obvious, but isn't "Oscar" also refer to the letter O in the radio alphabet?

Yes, you are correct in that as well.

That one slipped my mind while writing that this morning.

Thank you for adding that.

I have a funny "Oscar" non-sea story to tell (landlubber Navy personnel can't tell TRUE sea stories

I am Medical Service Corps, at the time with a Fleet Hospital, in case of Mass Casualty Exercise (or reality) our job is to help extract victims and carry to the triage area. We were conducting such an exercise a few years ago, and i was picking up "Oscar" (the aforementioned dummy, who also happened to weight 60kg and be anatomically correct). As I hefted "him" onto my shoulders witih the firefighters carry method, his...er...manhood fell. The ubiquitous exercise "clipboard" officer, asked me "LT! What are you going to do about that?" I thought it was a joke... he was NOT joking and said: "Would you like YOUR manhood to be carried back with you to the triage stage or be left behind to be nibbled my squirrels"? And imagine the laughter as I carried Oscar into the triage area on my shoulders while holding his... thing on my free hand!