The Names of NATO

Sometimes in the evenings, David tells us about his day. Here is an exerpt from tonight's briefing (we call them briefings).

"The International Staff calls us the Dirty Dozen. But Stephano and Ilona admitted that they shouldn't call us that to our faces because everyone in that movie dies."
"Who is "us?""
"The Like Minded Nations--Juozus, Nikolay, Frantisek, Dorothee, Judit, Svetlana, Marcel, Khan, Grethe, Tomas, and Ross--he is from Canada--the others clearly aren't."

David had to spell everyone's names out for me because let me tell you, other than Ross, none of these are pronounced remotely phonetically. And this really isn't an accurate list because David doesn't have his cheat sheet here where he has the appropriate key codes to make all the squiggly marks over and around the people's names.
People's names can be problematic. Here is an example: Yesterday Dave sent the US update to the Swedish CEP handbook (he is pleased because he cut it down by two pages although the legal section is still weak) --Oh no, I am now getting OpSec comments--to Tor-Bjorn who he is not sure he has ever met and is uncertain of his/her gender. He met someone from Sweden last week but can't remember the guy's name. But he is very tall.
I was never very good at names, but this environment offers a whole new realm of challenge. How do you remember a name that you have never heard before and would have to practice repeating 14 times before you can pronounce it correctly? I tend to stick with the Susans and Bruces at parties.
David is better. He gets more practice. He will be meeting with Ole, Christian, and Ragnar later in the month.