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From: baldwin@usna.NAVY.MIL (J.D. Baldwin.)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aircraft Nicknames
Summary: What they really REALLY call them
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Date: 13 Sep 90 01:25:02 GMT
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From: baldwin@usna.NAVY.MIL (J.D. Baldwin.)

jem3@pyuxf.bellcore.com (John E McKillop):
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>The following is reprinted without permission from AIR FORCE magazine.
>
>WHAT THEY REALLY CALLED THEM
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>EA-6, Grumman Intruder/Prowler = Sterile Arrow

There are two different aircraft combined here:  the A-6 Intruder, which I
have never heard referred to as anything but "Intruder"--and the EA-6B
Prowler.  In twelve years of active USN service--four and a half with wings
--I have never heard the term "Sterile Arrow."  

Everyone knows they're called "Queers."
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