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A place for everything.


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It can be tight quarters inside your Stryker, crewmen. When you're carrying passengers plus all their gear, it can he hard to find a place to stow your own stuff.

In fact, it's probably easier to list all the places you can't put your gear. Apriete example is around the three automatic fire extinguisher fire extinguisher: see fire fighting.  system (AFES AFES Armed Forces Emergency Services
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) nozzles in the passenger compartment.

Hanging helmets from the nozzles or stuffing backpacks and other gear around them will block Halon ha·lon  
n.
Any of several halocarbons used as fire-extinguishing agents.



halon  

Any of several compounds consisting of one or two carbon atoms combined with bromine and one or more other halogens.
 discharge. Not good if there's a fire!

Another no-stow zone is against the squad leader's escape hatch Noun 1. escape hatch - hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency
aeroplane, airplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
. It's a nice, wide open area that looks like a great place for getting stuff out of the way.

But the reason it's wide open is so the hatch can be used to leave the vehicle in an emergency. If you need to get out quick, the last thing you want to worry about is moving gear, cases of MREs. and other stuff that's in your way.

So where do you put all that stuff'? Check out the Stowage STOWAGE, mar. law. The proper arrangement in a ship, of the different articles of which a cargo consists, so that they may not injure each other by friction, or be damaged by the leakage of the ship.
     2.
 and Sign Guide section of your -10 TM. It'll tell you exactly where each and every item can be safely stored.

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Date:Jan 1, 2008
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