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How is the nickname for white phosphorus rockets spelled? Petes-peets-peats??

Not sure. If you say it you say willie-pete, but if you spell it you spell WP. If I was to spell it though I would say pete.

I have all ways seen this same spell I checked on a couple of sites to confirm it Willy Pete
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... ons/wp.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_(weapon)

willy pete is the radio Phonetic stress/pronunciation. So that its readily decernable for infantry/Pilot.(particularly in Artillary)

During the Vietnam war radio frequency's were openly shared across many units including firebases. There was no tacc nets.

I have some soundbites of as much as 10 units talking over each other at the same time during the vietnam war.

The practice predates the Korean war.

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Thanks everyone, I'm going to go with the willy-pete spelling.

You are correct, Dice.

Thanks Coach.