Posted: 9/10/2008 5:43:12 PM EDT
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After watching generation kill, and not being able to figure it out. Could someone shed some light on what they mean by "Interrogative"? thanks |
+1 - think of a noisy radio transmission where you can barely make out the words - you do not want to have your message depend on the tone changes of your voice. "Weapons free!" vs. "Weapons free?"  |
thankyou 
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In the military it's the polite way of saying "WTF, Over" In the Navy it is used as a proword (procedural word) in signalling with flag hoist signals and sometimes verbal signalling.. there are a variety of Pennants with defined meaning. The Speed pennant is one . If I hoist the Speed Pennant over the 1 and 5 flags it means "My speed is 15. If I am on a ship and want to know the speed of another ship, I can hoist Interrogative over Speed translating to "What is your speed? Interrogative is used as the word because it is hard to mistake it for other words. (as an aside the Church pennant hoisted above the Interrogative pennant translates as "Jesus Christ, What the hell?") |
I'd never heard it either, but figured out what it meant pretty quick. Of course when I was in we trained to fight people where comsec was important. The amount of talking on the radio they did in GK scared me. |