Girl Gunner
 

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Airman Vanessa Dobos of the 58th Training Squadron poses with a Gatling gun at Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico August 7, 2002. Dobos is to become the first woman aerial gunner in the USAF, with an assignment to a search and rescue Pave Hawk helicopter, when she graduates from technical training in a few weeks, performing a combat duty that was formerly closed to women. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force photo by Dennis Carlson


MaggieL will want this desktop image of an Airman/woman with a big badass gun!

Re: Girl Gunner
 

Well, thanks for the link. But Airman Dobos only has that "badass gun" as long as the boys let her use it. Like those guys with the F-15s...nice airplane, but it's only a loaner.

I'd rather see her have some power of her own...:-) Probably not anything full-auto, though, those things are hellishly expensive to feed

Is that a photo of her in the helo? Looks like it might be an AC-130....I didn't know they had anythinng that nasty on a helo.

Freudian typo in the quote!

Ah...well caught. I was stripping off the URL and the <bold> markup and got too one letter too many.

<i>And</i> she's kinda hot. Though I'm sure if she maintains a weapon like that, and hangs with the "big boys," she's a bit too butch for me. Oh well...

Too bad for you. :-)

Evidently the weapon pictured is an M-134 minigun, manufactured by GE, and standard equipment on Pave Hawk. I suspect the same weapon was on the helo in "The Matrix".