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
/23 (slash) or -23 (minus)?
Sigh - I knew better than that... working on 4 hours of sleep last night...stupid stupid stupid... I have to go do plebe rates now....