billbob and DonG, you all remember me telling you about going to Nuclear weapons school and about the loading the dial-a-bomb. Well here it is. It is a Mark 107 hanging beneath the belly of Douglas A4 aircraft #305. That was Commander Boldstad's plane. The planes were circling like buzzards during the crisis. Most were set for underwater explosions, but a couple were dialed in for low altitude bangs.

The planes did not land aboard ship with the nukes armed. They landed at Gitmo and I/we disarmed the nukes before returning to ship. Hey, what could go wrong? Rest of the time I was marching up and down the tarmac with a M1 and no ammo. Ha.

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