Annex Foxtrot was the name given to a 10-page memo written by Captain Ron Wildermuth, the chief Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Central Command, to outline theretofore unprecedented Pentagon restrictions on news reporting. "News media representatives will be escorted at all times. Repeat, at all times," wrote Captain Wildermuth. The memo established press pools that gave the Pentagon control over who could talk to troops and under what conditions, as well as control over much of what could be reported. The restrictions also provided for prior restraint of material deemed dangerous to national security. Emblem of the United States Central Command. ... Prior restraint is a legal term which refers to a governments actions that prevent materials from being published. ...
The rock band Wilco's 2002 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, includes recordings of a numbers station speaking these words, believed to be a transmission of an alphanumeric cipher using this phonetic alphabet.
The term "Charlie Foxtrot" is used as an abbreviation for CF in American Military slang to refer to a "cluster f..." or "completely f...", a blanket term for any sort of mass confusion or other SNAFU.
In Half-Life: Opposing Force, the level "Foxtrot uniform" might be a reference to the phonetic alphabet F and U. The Combine in the Half-Life 2 computer game use a modified phonetic alphabet, with such codes as "apex", "ion", "jet", "mace", "nova", "payback", "flatline", "sundown", and "ripcord".
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