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I went to AOB(Air Observer, Bombardier) School at James Connally AFB,
TX in 1957 on my way from pilot training to a co-pilot position in
RB-47s at Little Rock AFB. It was a six month school with training in
dead reckoning, celestial navigation, radar navigation and radar
bombing. We picked up an additional rating, another set of wings and
were called "Triple-Headed-Monsters".

Gene Myers

That was late in the game, in 1950 through 1954, they were sent to
Ellington, graduating as a Navigator w/ a set of Navigator Wings, then
Mather for Bombardier, graduating as a Bombardier w/ a set of Bombardier
Wings, then stayed at Mather for Aerial Observer School(Radar) ,graduating
with a set of AOB wings, these 3 in addition to Senior Pilot or Command
Pilot wings in their possession, since all AC candidates in the beginning
were the high time men on each Base they came from.
Thus 4 sets of wings = 4-headed Monsters!