In the Navy, the phrase ‘November November Three’ (NN 3) is (or more correctly was ‘in our times’) the code to signal the completion of a serial, an exercise, an evolution or a training session. Used in flag hoists or over radio circuits where brevity is important, it had become, over a period of time, shorthand in naval parlance to indicate the success of a mission, completion of a task or fulfilment of an objective. It is a typically understated way of saying that ‘the work