And all the pilots of the B-52 are not ashamed or mad at the nickname BUFF.
Big
Ugly
Fat
Fu**er
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-b-52-bomber-got-nickname-buff-69796
We know from talking to many prisoners and defectors, that
enemy troops fear B-52s, tactical air, artillery, and armor..in that order. This impression was confirmed by the Minister of Justice for the Viet Cong, Truong Nhu Tang, who dramatically explained in his 1985 book A Viet Cong Memoir, the experience of being caught in the middle of a B-52 Arc Light mission It Seemed, as I strained to press myself into the bunker floor, that I had been caught in the Apocalypse [
] the terror was complete. One lost control of bodily functions as the mind screamed incomprehensible orders to get out.