[Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

This apparently also appeared in The Mirror (London) soon after 9/11.

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A BOMB assembly gunner on the American aircraft carrier USS Carl
Vinson last night summed up his work: "We put warheads on foreheads."

The officer, known as "Goose", fits guidance systems to the bombs on
the 76 fighter jets.

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>From an article ("War on Terror: Bombs Mission") that appeared on page
6 of the 19 October 2001 issue. (I don't have access to images of
pages, only full text that ProQuest offers me.)

In any event, nice catch, JL.

-- Bonnie

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Slightly earlier (Google Books):
>
> 2002 _Airman_ (July) 18: If the job is putting warheads on foreheads, they
> want the B-1.
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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