ordnancemen

Those 250 pilots are useless without the efforts of all the others - plane captains, aircraft handlers, catapult workers, ordnancemen, cooks, CIC operators, etc. etc.

Blumenthal, et al: what does it mean to misspeak? 2010

By hand or by truck, ordnancemen hauled bomb bodies from storage dumps to the hardstands where “bomb builders” attached tail fins, hoisted the weapons into the cavernous bomb bays, and inserted fuses.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

By hand or by truck, ordnancemen hauled bomb bodies from storage dumps to the hardstands where “bomb builders” attached tail fins, hoisted the weapons into the cavernous bomb bays, and inserted fuses.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

With each fighter squadron went mechanics, ordnancemen, and even air-traffic controllers.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

Red-shirted ordnancemen were arming the parked aircraft for their next mission.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

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.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

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.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

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.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

The nearby fire distracted the ordnancemen under the Skyhawks.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

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.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991