Yeah.... but we didn’t typically note that with a dash. I’m trying to think of when we would have used the dash more readily other than classifications, but I’m guessing it may be more ground pounder related and I’m an outdated ocean going black shoe.
I came across a buncha older stuff as well: M-23 machine gun, X-23 experimental plane (supposedley for atmospheric reentry which is interesting), V-23 Osprey (not quite as dated)... old German destroyer D23... few other things like that but nothing except the fighters seemed remotely recent.
The Osprey aircraft is a V-22. Really close though.
I’ve been racking my old dogface memories. We used to jump with a “dash ten bravo” parachute. So there are references to ‘dash-something’.
Dash 23? Dunno. Still working on it. Most of our equipment was referred to as ‘M-something’. M249, M60, M16, M1 tank, M2 Bradley, M240B...
Manuals were referred to as ‘dash’. Dash-10 was a vehicle operator’s maintenance manual, dash-20 was the mechanic’s manual. ‘Three-dash-Oh’ is Operations. etc. etc.
“dash two three”? I’m not familiar with. I think ‘dash’ is an Army thing though. I’ve heard Squids, Coasties and Zoomies all say ‘stroke’ or ‘strike’ or something when describing a hyphen. (service brothers, help me out). In the Army they say ‘slash’ and ‘dash’.
Q said “think military. slash vs. minus” (paraphrasing).
Random voltage. Thanks for your time.
Kit
V-23 Osprey?