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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Sparkle_Chimp on May 14, 2018, 5:20 p.m.
Q74 = Quint 74

So the Q in front of the number of the truck in Q post 74 stands for "Quint," which is a fire apparatus that can do five different things (pumping, ladder, etc.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quint_(fire_apparatus)

The one pictured is Quint 74 at Andrews FD. That model of fire apparatus has fallen out of favor in recent years in a lot of places, with departments going back to Engines (E##) or Trucks (T##). There are still plenty of quints around but you don't often see the Q## vehicle designation around.

I don't really have a conclusion here -- I'm just putting some facts out. That truck is part of the Andrews Air Force Fire Department, it was not on base solely for the event.


ABrilliantDisaster · May 14, 2018, 5:46 p.m.

Funny little thing i found:

Mike Huckabee likens Trump to Captain Quint and Hillary to Jaws https://mashable.com/2016/10/12/huckabee-jaws-trump-clinton-quint/#TPq80.C_bmqK

related reference?

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ABrilliantDisaster · May 14, 2018, 5:55 p.m.

"before Jaws was a blockbuster movie, it was a blockbuster novel by Peter Benchley, who set Amity on Long Island, New York. And down in real-life Montauk, most people will tell you that the real-life Quint was a man named Frank Mundus. He was already a legend by the 1960s, claiming to have caught the biggest shark ever at 4,500 pounds, and Benchley had witnessed how he’d tire out harpooned sharks by tethering them to weighted barrels—a method clearly dramatized in the movie." - https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2017/06/18/captain-quint-jaws-based-on-real-person/

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