From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 14:00:22 PDT
In firefighting, the two-and-a-half-inch line ("hose" to you onlookers) is a
"deuce'n'a half" but the two-inch line is a "two-inch line". Go figure.
(Of course, the one-a-half inch line is a "booster line" and the front
hydrant connection is a "steamer" connection. When you pump while the
engine is moving, you are said to "Pump & roll", not "pump & drive". The
truck that pumps is an "engine", the vehicle that has the ladder on top is
the "truck" and the truck with the tank is a pumper. It's all a conspiracy,
right, Sonny?)
Capt. apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@verizon.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M151 Question
>
> OK, I misunderstood the question and gave what might appear as a
smart-aleck
> answer. I did not intend to be smart-alecky.
>
> Nothing but speculation, but I would suggest that it is shorthand. Deuce
is
> MUCH easier to say than deuceandahalf.
>
> Joe Garrett
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Sonny Heath
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:27 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] M151 Question
>
>
> I know, I know but what about the half?
>
> Sonny
>
>
>
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