Re: [SGish] APC question

>Biff,
>    Yes it is or so I've been instructed. We use it in a very heavy
concentration in our ammo
>carrier, and as there are only two crewmen aboard the TC and driver and
they have their
>heads outside the vehicle it wasn't considered a major problem. We were
under orders to
>carry all other crew members in the howitzer and never in the ammo
carrier.
The halon is not
>in of it self deadly but the concentrations used to  quickly extinguish
a
fire where hundreds
>of pounds of high explosives are stored could well be.
>
>Don
>
> I was lead to beleave that halon was actually a dense gas, and if
inhailed
> would sit in the lungs, and the normal breathing wouldn`t be enough to
> expell it. It would accumalate, and block any chance of breathing.
Standing
> on your head when away from the halon would work I suppose <G>.