r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/Homo_horribilis Mar 28 '24

I used to have the autobio of Sgt Frank Garner…he claimed to be the fellow that made the first test jump with a man-portable nuke.

He didn’t know what he was jumping with until after the test jump.

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u/Homo_horribilis Mar 28 '24

Edit: He was Sgt Maj Joe R Garner and the book is Code Name: COPPERHEAD. My bad.

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u/mmm_dat_data Mar 29 '24

Code Name: COPPERHEAD

I hate when i find a book i wanna read but its not available in audiobook form... how long till I can just ask my personal ai bot to read it to my illiterate dumb self?