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Abbreviations?

Uthink Uknow said:
Before the federally mandated EMS, Detroit Fire Department had 9 squads that handled all the rescue, hospital, or life saving runs. Then the feds came in and mandated that DFD had to have ‘medics” to specialize in these runs. The nine squads, who took medical emergency runs as well as fire runs were replaced by sixteen (16) EMS rigs, that did not respond to fires. Much of their time is spent in doing the paperwork in quadplicate for city, state, and federal bureaucracies. Who reads this crap? In the old days we spoke and understood ghettoese. If someone fainted,passed out, or was unconscious we were told by family members they done fell out. We abbreviated the report form that went only to Fire Department interests and no further. So we abbreviated done fell out to DFO. Now if that person passed it was abbreviated DFOFG. Done Fell Out For Good. We had to stop doing it that way.
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I’m married to a paramedic, she drives me crazy with abbreviations in conversation. Glad I’m deaf now and quit stopping her stories! Lol
 
muleman69 said

"I remember when you just said what you meant, but apparently people don't do that anymore."


I think texting shorthand got involved
 
ttyl talk to you later
ttyL talk to you louder (older guys)
drt dead right there
ddr down da road
ctd circling the drain
smh shake my head
dfo done fell out
 
MrMajestic said:
They frowned on us using these terms when filling out the aircraft log book...
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Those generally got signed off with an A799 corrective action code.....could not duplicate problem. Op checks good.
The best one involved an APR-25 system on an RF-4B. The pilot griped the system as giving a loud warble in the headset, had flashing lights on control panel. could not control volume so turned the system off.
He was flying over NVN and the noise in the headset indicated that a SAM or anti aircraft radar was locked on to him.
 
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KMart said:
Those generally got signed off with an A799 corrective action code.....could not duplicate problem. Op checks good.
The best one involved an APR-25 system on an RF-4B. The pilot griped the system as giving a loud warble in the headset, had flashing lights on control panel. could not control volume so turned the system off.
He was flying over NVN and the noise in the headset indicated that a SAM or anti aircraft radar was locked on to him.
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What F-4 didn't have a hydraulic leak coming from panel 22, memories..
I crewed 68-429...
 
KMart said:
Those generally got signed off with an A799 corrective action code.....could not duplicate problem. Op checks good.
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Boy does that Navy/Marine aviation maintenance code "A799" bring back a lot of old memories. Some days when I have a frustrating day at the range and cannot figure out what went wrong I will write "A799" on my target.
 
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