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U.S. casualties in, 27
U.S. pullout of forces in, 28–29
Wild Weasel project and, 21–29
Wailing Bench (Nellis Air Force Base), 139
war
Hampton’s views about, 307–8
See also specific war
WARDOG. See ROMAN (Iraq War call sign): sandstorm landing and
Wasserfall SAM, 16
Weapons Officer
Desert Storm veterans as, 155
flight lead as, 220
Mission Commanders as, 84
9/11 and, 158
as Patchwearer or Target Arm, 132, 133, 137
requirements for, 132
responsibilities of, 132
SEFEs as, 130
selection of, 133
Vault as responsibility of, 132
See also Fighter Weapons Instructor Course; Fighter Weapons School
Weapons and Tactics Shop, 128
Weasels/weaseling. See Wild Weasels
weather
Iraq War and, 215, 218–19, 229–30
See also sandstorms
Westinghouse, 26
WICKED (Iraq War call sign), 216, 217, 218, 219, 226–27, 228, 229
wild-porpoise maneuver, 255
“Wild Weasel Song,” 93
Wild Weasels
awards and honors for, 29
battle cry of, 14, 24
CAS and, 2
casualties among, 25, 29
changes in planned missions of, 290
characteristics of, 304–5
code words and, 282
creation of, 19–20, 21
Desert Storm and, 65, 72
development of anti-SAM weapons and, 21–29
diversity in attacks by, 251
EWOs as heart of, 53
first combat mission of, 24
Fobair death and, 21
as focused on hunting and killing SAMS, 2, 21–29, 272
in Germany, 49
impact on Iraq War of, 215, 301, 305