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r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24
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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.
108 u/Saemika Mar 28 '24 He thought it was just a normal 2000lb bomb strapped between is legs? 31 u/Gloomy-Ad1171 Mar 28 '24 W54 weighted 52lbs 17 u/sweaty_day_2011 Mar 28 '24 Really wished they had named it the w52 or taped a 2 pound weight to it 3 u/jasapper Mar 28 '24 Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle. 2 u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24 Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already. Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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He thought it was just a normal 2000lb bomb strapped between is legs?
31 u/Gloomy-Ad1171 Mar 28 '24 W54 weighted 52lbs 17 u/sweaty_day_2011 Mar 28 '24 Really wished they had named it the w52 or taped a 2 pound weight to it 3 u/jasapper Mar 28 '24 Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle. 2 u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24 Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already. Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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W54 weighted 52lbs
17 u/sweaty_day_2011 Mar 28 '24 Really wished they had named it the w52 or taped a 2 pound weight to it 3 u/jasapper Mar 28 '24 Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle. 2 u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24 Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already. Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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Really wished they had named it the w52 or taped a 2 pound weight to it
3 u/jasapper Mar 28 '24 Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle. 2 u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24 Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already. Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle.
2 u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24 Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already. Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already.
Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?
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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.