Military time.... Easy to convert

Confused by military time they use at school?   Easiest way to calculate the time is to add 12 hours to anything after noon up until midnight. For example:

1:00pm is 1+12 =1300 hrs said as "13 hundred" hours 

3:00pm is 3 + 12 = 1500 hrs said as "15 hundred " hours 

8:30pm is 830+12 = 2030hrs said as "20 -30" hours 

From midnight to noon just add a zero in front of the time. For example

6am = 0600 hours. Said "Zero" 6 hundred hours 

830am = 0830 hours said "zero" 8 30 hours 

1015am = 1015 hours said "ten hundred fifteen" hours 

Sounds like a different language but for our cadets it becomes second nature and automatic within short order.  

If you want to practice there are several free apps online that you can download and practice even ones with flash cards better yet ask your cadet to quiz you!  Before you know it it will be second nature to you as well.  DF