The nearby fire distracted the ordnancemen under the Skyhawks. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
Red-shirted ordnancemen were arming the parked aircraft for their next mission. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
With each fighter squadron went mechanics, ordnancemen, and even air-traffic controllers. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
Add to this the stress of manhandling by beefy ordnancemen, and the AIM-9's success rate becomes remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
Blue lights probed flaps and control surfaces as the red lights of ordnancemen checked the F-14's weapon load. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
Those 250 pilots are useless without the efforts of all the others - plane captains, aircraft handlers, catapult workers, ordnancemen, cooks, CIC operators, etc. etc. From Wordnik.com. [Blumenthal, et al: what does it mean to misspeak?] Reference
The ordnancemen jostled under the aircraft, two teams each trying to do their jobs, one team trying to remove bombs that they didn't know to be bombs at all, while the other hung Zunis on the wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
Close by the island, purple shirts -- "grapes" in carrier parlance -- were clustered about a line of F/A-18 Hornets attaching fuel hoses to their bellies, while red-shirted ordnancemen checked through the racks of bombs and missiles slung from wing pylons. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
Normally, the color-coded crewmen seemed segregated, each with their own kind, but now purple-shirted fuel handlers mingled with red-shirted ordnancemen, shoulder to shoulder with green-shirted hook and catapult men, safety monitors and corpsmen in white, crew captains in brown. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
One team of ordnancemen, for security reasons not told the nature of their task, was arming a flight of A-4 Skyhawk strike-fighters with nuclear weapons under the eyes of two officers, known as 'watchers,' for that was their job, to keep visual track of everything that had to do with nuclear weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
Aviation ordnancemen wheel JDAM air to ground bombs for loading onto fighter jets. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
Even if Obama makes cuts to the military, the navy is still going to need ordnancemen. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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