I am reading John Glenn's memoir. John was recounting the experimental rockets
with monkeys passengers. He named the monkeys as "Able" and "Baker". I
immediately thought of a connection to a TAGS episode. Able, Baker, and
Charlie were the names used in The Cow Thief by the "interloper" inves
"Able" and "baker" were the old military phonetics for the letters 'A' and 'B'.
During a period of the late 60s, some agencies used "adam" for the letter 'A'
(as in "Adam-12"). The phonetic alphabet has changed over the decades and 'A'
and 'B' are now "alpha" and "bravo"; "charlie" remains
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