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    Tag: BLU-82
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    • BLU-82 drop anniversary

      Video by Senior Airman Joseph Pick   |   1st Special Operations Wing   |   02.06.2018

      On Feb. 6, 1991, in support of Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield, an MC-130E aircrew with the 8th SOS carried two BLU-82 "Daisy Cutters." One was dropped on a minefield to assist Marines advancing through Iraqi border defenses and the other on an Iraqi battalion HQ. By the close of the war, 11 BLU-82s were dropped by MC-130E aircrews....