Keep the air flowing.It gets downright hot in Iraq, so any air flow you can get inside your Stryker is precious. That's why you need to be careful where you store your gear on top of the vehicle. The metal rail that goes around the vent fan air intake looks like a good place to tie down gear. Unfortunately, stacking gear around the fan chokes off the air flow that's used to cool the interior of the vehicle. So it'll make you very unpopular with those sweaty sweat·y adj. sweat·i·er, sweat·i·est 1. Covered with or smelling of sweat. 2. Causing sweat: a sweaty job. guys that are riding along inside. It's also unsafe. When the automatic fire extinguisher fire extinguisher: see fire fighting. system (AFES AFES Armed Forces Emergency Services AFES Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station AFES Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (see IFES) AFES Automated Financial Entitlements System AFES Army Frequency Engineering Software ) is discharged to put out a fire, the fan automatically reverses to vent 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. out of the vehicle. It can't do that very well if the fan is blocked by mounds of gear. So, when you find what looks like a good location for storing your gear, make sure it's not next to the vent fan air intake. "WHEW whew interj. Used to express strong emotion, such as relief or amazement. whew interj an exclamation of relief, surprise, disbelief, or weariness " IT'S LIKE AN OVEN IN THERE! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I GOTTA GET SOME AIR! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Don't stack gear around vent fan air intake [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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