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Offutt may refer to:
- Offutt (surname)
- Offutt, Kentucky
- Offutt Air Force Base, United States Air Force airbase in Sarpy County, Nebraska
- Offutt Field (Greensburg), Professional baseball and American football venue in Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Offutt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew J. Offutt, American science-fiction and fantasy author
- Chris Offutt, American author of fiction and memoirs
- Denton Offutt, 19th century general store operator who gave Abraham Lincoln his first job
- Jarvis Offutt, Aviator from World War I
- Jeff Offutt, American university professor of Software Engineering
- Ronald D. Offutt, Founder of R. D. Offutt Company, a 9-state 190,000-acre farm
- Warren Offutt, American astronomer
Usage examples of "offutt".
The fact was, Offutt had made them a very generous offer—larger pay than any one of them had ever received.
Thence they walked to Springfield, where they met Offutt at “Elliott’s Tavern.
At Salt Creek Offutt stopped to make a purchase of live hogs, but the wild, vicious animals were determined not to go on board, and they were full of fight.
Perhaps a wholesome recollection of his strength, courage, and tact in engineering the boat over Rutledge’s dam, or the extravagant statements of Offutt concerning his marvellous achievements, had restrained them.
At any rate they did not molest him, until one day, when Bill Clary had a dispute with Offutt in his store, and both became exasperated.
Holland says that when he terminated his labours for Offutt, “every one trusted him.
Half went to his older brother, Mark, an Air Force colonel stationed at Offutt Field, Headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, near Omaha.
I'll bet they've programmed three five-megaton IC's for Offutt, and since our house is eight miles from the base any kind of near-miss does it "- Mark snapped his fingers-"like that.
I'll have to be there, at Offutt, in the Hole, but the least a man can do is give his children a chance to grow up, and I think they'd have a better chance in Fort Repose than Omaha.
He's riding soft and plush in a C-One-thirty-five-that's the transport version of our new jet tanker-with a lot of Offutt brass.
At that moment he was straightening up the house before driving to Offutt to assume direction of Intelligence analysis in the Hole.
He wondered whether Mark was also right in his prediction that Offutt and the Hole would be one of the primary targets.
After all, it was a primary target with SAC Headquarters, Offutt Field-itself an important base-and the biggest rail complex between Chicago and the Coast all grouped together.
With that done, I would integrate and send the package off to Hq SAC, Offutt AFB, Oklahoma and give them a crack at it.