Canadian Bombardier Iltis "96A"

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Nine Six Alpha

[Ed Storey]

96A is a fixed Call Sign. No secret decoder ring required although a good working knowledge of the organization of a Canadian Infantry Battalion or any of the other units within a Canadian Brigade will reveal the vehicle's placement within these formations.

Remember, some of these vehicles bounced around between different units and deployments, so the remains of fixed call sign could be only one piece to a vehicle's history.

Much like genealogy, the research into the service use of these vehicles involves more then just one simple email for information.

[rob love]

Simple answer is the 96A is the callsign of one of the MP (or RP) dets. So the callsign matches the vehicle's Military police configuration.

[Michael R.]

Stuart,
perhaps pronounced as 'NINer-six-alpha', . . . without the use of ten signals, aka ten codes.