How to Use missileer in a Sentence

missileer

noun

• Air Force missileers have stood watch over our nuclear weapons since the 1970s.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
• Newbie missileers are assigned to eight shifts a month.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 8 Sep. 2017
• The pair of missileers would each grip two triangular switches, eyes fixed to a red digital clock ticking away between the consoles.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2011
• In reality, he had been sent to Montana, assigned to the unenviable position of Air Force missileer.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• These are risky tactics at a time when the Persian Gulf is thick with American military aircraft and Iranian missileers are likely to have twitchy trigger fingers.
  — The Economist, 19 July 2019
• Underground, on those 24-hour missileer shifts, Walmsley learned to withstand an excruciating sort of monotony, to remain focused on nothing for hours on end.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Associated security forces operate from a building above ground at each missile silo to protect the missileers and their equipment down below.
  — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• Air Force pilots and missileers, as well as Navy submarine crews with nuclear missions, belong in that category, as do Army special operations forces tasked with the highest-priority missions.
  — Jennifer Babich, USA TODAY, 14 May 2020
• Though women are notoriously underrepresented in the military, there's a disproportionally high number of female missileers; by March 2016, there were enough of them to schedule an all-female alert.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017

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