>>1792985 (lb)

Fuck me the Army has a manual for everything. Nice find

Stuff about 2-em dash used to indicate a name, part of name, or word has been omitted was pretty interesting

I'm guessing Q said Dash v Minus? because most theories at the time were

T-minus 23 days since the post

T-minus 23 days since tripcode change

T-minus 23 hours

T-minus 23 ad infinitum

May 23

Think dash, think missing letters, not minus. The formatting was a clue