[Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Great work Bonnie. NewsBank has the same article (text only). It is
only 61 words long.

Date: October 19, 2001
Newspaper: The Daily Mirror
Newspaper Location: London, England
Section: News, Quote Page 6
Database: NewsBank Access World News

[Begin excerpt]
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.

Speaking from the pounds 3billion ship in the Arabian Sea he said:
"Since strikes began we've dropped 300,000 pounds of bombs."
[End excerpt]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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