missileman
Americannoun
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a person who builds, designs, launches, or operates guided missiles.
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a technician or scientist whose work pertains to missilery.
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Chris Sembroski, 42, a data engineer and former Air Force missileman from Everett, entered an open lottery by donating to St. Jude.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
Pemberton, who is from New Bedford, Mass., enlisted in the Marine Corps last year and serves as an anti-tank missileman, according to the Marine Corps Times.
From Washington Post
Allen, 52, has headed the supersecret National Security Agency and is a missileman who talks the same kind of technical language as Defense Secretary Harold Brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman in Alamogordo, N. Mex., a missile town whose population has increased since 1950 from 7,000 to 25,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
An instant later, the missileman, in his turret overhead, shouted: "Missile coming up; counter-missile off!"
From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam
"Also, strategic missilemen will carry out a set of measures to camouflage and counter modern aerial reconnaissance means in cooperation with formations and units of the Central Military District and the Aerospace Forces."
From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2023
Then two weeks ago, a White House adviser referred during a briefing for newsmen of the need to "expel" Soviet pilots and missilemen from Egypt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some reporters estimate that a good 10% of the missile information that is leaked to them would materially aid Soviet missilemen if printed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Allen's design has since been adopted by missilemen throughout the industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of jerry-building new security barricades, reasoned some Monday-morning missilemen, the Pentagon should try to see that the public is not again gulled by over-optimistic news stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
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