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Easy Company was the phonetic designation of the fifth company in a
battalion of any given Army
regiment before the adoption of the
NATO standard alphabet.
Easy Company has been famously used by a fictional cast of comic book characters, and by a real life company of the
101st Airborne whose story was told by historian
Stephen Ambrose in his book
Band of Brothers, later made into a television miniseries based on the book. Today Easy Company, 2-506th, is now Alpha Company, the fifth infantry company in the 506th. Alpha Company uses the Easy call signs to carry on tradition.
Regiments in the US military traditionally assign their companies alphabetical designations (for example the fifth company is Company E). During World War II, this would have been pronounced
Easy Company according to the
Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. This differs from modern conventions, which use the
NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Today, E Company would be Echo Company.
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