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Posted: 5/6/2019 10:17:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well then!!! 
Does the launch crew know what the target(s) are? 
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Posted: 5/6/2019 10:22:27 AM EDT
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Nobody's asked me a question yet.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 5/6/2019 10:53:51 AM EDT
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how loud is the actual launch from the bunker?
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:14:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nobody's asked me a question yet. PM is fine. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:24:56 AM EDT
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Is this the one in Sahuarita AZ? I took that tour last November. Very cool.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:32:31 AM EDT
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I was a BMAT on a launch crew at Davis Monthan in the early 70's. The crews were not supposed to know the targets. One time however, our crew was assigned to load new target tapes. Our crew commander was told that the primary target on the new tapes was an air force base outside of Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of Andrews AFB in DC). So for about a year we knew who we would be nuking.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:39:23 AM EDT
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I was a BMAT on a launch crew at Davis Monthan in the early 70's. The crews were not supposed to know the targets. One time however, our crew was assigned to load new target tapes. Our crew commander was told that the primary target on the new tapes was an air force base outside of Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of Andrews AFB in DC). So for about a year we knew who we would be nuking. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:40:19 AM EDT
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OP thanks for sharing that video with us. I worked Titans, Minuteman, and Peacekeepers so for me this video really takes me back. Thanks.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:44:39 AM EDT
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We've been discussing the psychological requirements of someone who will program a launch (2 hours-2days?)from now ("depending on the war plans of the Pentagon") and then turn the key....3,2,1,turn.
The on going Psych testing/monitoring program for these crews must be incredible. 
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:49:04 AM EDT
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The one just South of Tucson, AZ is fairly close to me. I found it pretty fun, a look back to the cold war.
Here's the key turning process in AZ 
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:50:46 AM EDT
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9 months tech school Sheppard AFB, 6 Weeks Operational Readiness Training (simulator) Vandenburg AFB, then whatever time it takes to assign you to a combat crew at your duty base. I entered the AirForce in October 70 and went on combat status in January 72.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:51:16 AM EDT
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Nobody's asked me a question yet. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:55:07 AM EDT
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Those chairs comfortable?
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Posted: 5/6/2019 12:00:12 PM EDT
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I was just at the Titan museum last week. Well worth the $10 admission fee. Our guide was a female ex-commander of the site. The walk-through of the launch sequence was impressive. Gravitas in spades.
She told us the crews were not informed where the missile was targeted but could guess the general type of target by whether the warhead was set for airburst or ground detonation. Airburst was set for 14000 feet. With 9MT that's a city destroyer. The ground detonation setting was more likely for hardened military or infrastructure targets.The missile at the museum was set for a ground detonation. The missile currently in the tube was an unused training missile that had never been fueled. The fuels used were hypergolic and dangerous to handle. They had fully sealed hazmat suits with helmets and air tanks to handle refueling and other missile maintenance details. The silo door is partially open so you can look down on the missile. There is a window cut into the heat shield of the RV so the Russians can verify it does not have a W53 installed. As far as military museums go, it was one of the tightest, best preserved I have been to. Plenty of other stuff to do in the Tucson area (including Pima Air & Space Museum), so well worth the trip. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 12:02:48 PM EDT
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how loud is the actual launch from the bunker? |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 12:06:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: IP address and credentials for SSH to launch console? PM is fine. 3 cups of sliced baby portobello mushrooms 8 garlic cloves minced 2 tablespoons butter 4 teaspoons chopped fresh sage 1/4 cup Bourbon liquor 1/2 tablespoon Bourbon liquor 1 cup heavy cream Olive Oil 1 tablespoon dry white wine Salt Black Pepper Instructions Heat about two tablespoons of olive oil in a large pan (use medium high heat). Once the olive oil has heated, add the sliced mushrooms to the pan. Cook the mushrooms for about five minutes. Once you cook the mushrooms, drain the mushrooms, and set the mushrooms aside. In a pan, heat the butter and about one tablespoon of olive oil in a pan on medium heat. Add the garlic and sage to the heated olive oil and butter. Cook the garlic and sage for about one minute. Add the heavy cream, mushrooms, and bourbon to the garlic sage mixture. Cook the cream sauce for about five minutes on medium heat or until the sauce reduces to half the amount. Add the 1/2 tablespoon of Bourbon and the 1 tablespoon of white wine to the sauce. Salt and pepper the cream sauce to taste. Set the sauce aside. Cook steaks to desired doneness. Let the steaks rest a few minutes after cooking to allow the juices to stay in the meat so that steaks stay juicy. Top the steaks with the cream sauce before serving. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 12:11:03 PM EDT
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I was a BMAT on a launch crew at Davis Monthan in the early 70's. The crews were not supposed to know the targets. One time however, our crew was assigned to load new target tapes. Our crew commander was told that the primary target on the new tapes was an air force base outside of Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of Andrews AFB in DC). So for about a year we knew who we would be nuking. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 12:15:12 PM EDT
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Those chairs comfortable? So, no. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:12:52 PM EDT
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What is the selection process like to become a launch crew member-if you can tell us?
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:24:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryIt's an ARFCOM thing!!!!!  
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:35:56 PM EDT
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There's been an ass in that seat 24x7 for literally decades, with the accompanying number of farts that timeline suggests. So, no. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Those chairs comfortable? So, no. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 2:50:42 PM EDT
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I used to work TCC out of F.E. Warren back in 86-88. Coordinated all the crews and maintenance and crew comings and goings in the field. As well as weapons movements. It was fun but dam serious. The best part was when some new missile jock would come get there vehicle from us. Older missile jocks never messed with us. And when a fresh missile jock would give us a hard time. We always got our payback. We knew all the dead zones were. The missile jocks had to radio us every so often. If they failed to radio even though we knew they had to pass through the dead zone. We would give the security forces a call. They were always bored. And they loved to jack them officers up. Put them on the ground. We would get a play by play from them.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 3:42:48 PM EDT
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87 inches apart and spring loaded.
My Grabber scoffs at your ability to prevent me from launching the missile single handed.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 5:57:12 PM EDT
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87 inches apart and spring loaded. My Grabber scoffs at your ability to prevent me from launching the missile single handed. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/81561/The__Grabber_jpg-936547.JPG |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:02:57 PM EDT
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What is the selection process like to become a launch crew member-if you can tell us? Fog a mirror. Have most of your teeth and other organs. Have not had too many dreams of sleeping with your mother. No drugs, no arrests, no Florida Man adventures in your past. Seriously. It's a standard Class III flight physical and a TS/SBI investigation. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:07:27 PM EDT
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There's been an ass in that seat 24x7 for literally decades, with the accompanying number of farts that timeline suggests. So, no. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Those chairs comfortable? So, no.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:11:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: IP address and credentials for SSH to launch console? PM is fine. Plus everyone knows the real key is war dialing until you get NORAD’s computer to answer. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:16:36 PM EDT
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98.6. Preferably Fahrenheit. Fog a mirror. Have most of your teeth and other organs.? Have not had too many dreams of sleeping with your mother. No drugs, no arrests, no Florida Man adventures in your past. Seriously. It's a standard Class III flight physical and a TS/SBI investigation. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What is the selection process like to become a launch crew member-if you can tell us? Fog a mirror. Have most of your teeth and other organs.? Have not had too many dreams of sleeping with your mother. No drugs, no arrests, no Florida Man adventures in your past. Seriously. It's a standard Class III flight physical and a TS/SBI investigation.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:19:51 PM EDT
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Would a brain be one of the required organs or is it optional? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What is the selection process like to become a launch crew member-if you can tell us? Fog a mirror. Have most of your teeth and other organs.? Have not had too many dreams of sleeping with your mother. No drugs, no arrests, no Florida Man adventures in your past. Seriously. It's a standard Class III flight physical and a TS/SBI investigation. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:23:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 98.6. Preferably Fahrenheit. Fog a mirror. Have most of your teeth and other organs. Have not had too many dreams of sleeping with your mother. No drugs, no arrests, no Florida Man adventures in your past. Seriously. It's a standard Class III flight physical and a TS/SBI investigation. I'm thinking people join the Air Force to fly fighter planes and the selection process for those slots seem to be pretty competitive from what guys here have said. Are there men and women who meet the above requirements who want to sit in a sterile room for ungodly numbers of hours in uncomfortable chairs that smell like old farts.......waiting for orders to launch missiles? Do people enlist with an open slot for Missile Crew? Is there some kind of test that you guys took that determines you were particularly suited to sit underground for long periods of time bored to death with megatonage a couple of minutes away? Maybe it was your advanced knowledge of cooking?
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:28:18 PM EDT
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The two key slots are separated by 87 inches. Too funny. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:47:45 PM EDT
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Wish I'd known about it when I lived in Tucson.
@limaxray I've read that the Minuteman control complexes were vulnerable to destruction from direct hits by Soviet ICBM warheads. If so, were the heavy doors and such more for security, or were they built when it was thought the Soviets were only capable of getting in the ballpark? |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:56:07 PM EDT
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I need to take the AZ tour one of these days. I was in the complex many times when it was operational. I was IRCS and RTMN.
Had to replace many lenses on the ACK switches due to the Rube Goldberg arrangements the crew used to press the button w/o moving. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 6:57:57 PM EDT
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According to my logbook, I did 15 alerts there in the early 1990s. Quote HistoryQuoted:
According to my logbook, I did 15 alerts there in the early 1990s.  
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:03:56 PM EDT
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Current missile sites open for tours: Titan Missile Museum, Pima AZMinuteman Missile National Historic Park Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Historic Site, Cooperstown, ND Oscar 01 Missile Site, Whiteman AFB, MO |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:10:52 PM EDT
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Yeah, that's MIMI, I got distracted and didn't post it.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:12:24 PM EDT
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Wish I'd known about it when I lived in Tucson. @limaxray I've read that the Minuteman control complexes were vulnerable to destruction from direct hits by Soviet ICBM warheads. If so, were the heavy doors and such more for security, or were they built when it was thought the Soviets were only capable of getting in the ballpark? |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:19:41 PM EDT
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I am gonna need one hell of a tax stamp for this baby!!!!
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:20:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:25:32 PM EDT
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Stafford museum Weatherford OK.
Awesome museum, Has a little of everything Air force and NASA in it.  Attached File Attached File
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:27:43 PM EDT
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Bourbon cream mushroom sauce (great with steaks) 3 cups of sliced baby portobello mushrooms 8 garlic cloves minced 2 tablespoons butter 4 teaspoons chopped fresh sage 1/4 cup Bourbon liquor 1/2 tablespoon Bourbon liquor 1 cup heavy cream Olive Oil 1 tablespoon dry white wine Salt Black Pepper Instructions Heat about two tablespoons of olive oil in a large pan (use medium high heat). Once the olive oil has heated, add the sliced mushrooms to the pan. Cook the mushrooms for about five minutes. Once you cook the mushrooms, drain the mushrooms, and set the mushrooms aside. In a pan, heat the butter and about one tablespoon of olive oil in a pan on medium heat. Add the garlic and sage to the heated olive oil and butter. Cook the garlic and sage for about one minute. Add the heavy cream, mushrooms, and bourbon to the garlic sage mixture. Cook the cream sauce for about five minutes on medium heat or until the sauce reduces to half the amount. Add the 1/2 tablespoon of Bourbon and the 1 tablespoon of white wine to the sauce. Salt and pepper the cream sauce to taste. Set the sauce aside. Cook steaks to desired doneness. Let the steaks rest a few minutes after cooking to allow the juices to stay in the meat so that steaks stay juicy. Top the steaks with the cream sauce before serving.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:30:19 PM EDT
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Here's what goes in those nose cones: (W53 9MT package)
Up to 9 Megs of Pure, Ultra Refined Sunshine, |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:34:25 PM EDT
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What's the gain on that antenna? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Really enjoyed his videos. I really want to go take that tour some day. Also would love to take a radio and hook up to their giant HF discone antenna. https://i.redd.it/9tlm3dr0smt21.jpg |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:42:31 PM EDT
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It's unity gain but it's a broadbanded SOB. It's on my list of "places I want to operate from" list. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Really enjoyed his videos. I really want to go take that tour some day. Also would love to take a radio and hook up to their giant HF discone antenna. https://i.redd.it/9tlm3dr0smt21.jpg  Titan Missile Museum Operating |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:44:39 PM EDT
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The boy and I did a tour there south of DM a couple years ago. He got to swing the blast door by himself, which was something like 3000 lbs iirc. Not bad for a 9 year old
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:46:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Nobody's asked me a question yet. If there was only one, what if you both had the Taco Surprise and needed to go? Is there a red phone (or whatever the important one is) in the bathroom? If there are two bathrooms, are there remote keys in each? Are there seatbelts and harnesses on the dumpers like the fancy console seats? Do they have shovels down there to dig out after a global thermonuclear exchange? Did HQ have cameras to monitor missile officers remotely? Were the cameras good enough to tell if they were real officers or inflatable ones? Were pets allowed? |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 8:31:40 PM EDT
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Daughter served 25 years in the Air Force and 8 of them were in a Titan II Missile Silo. Use to ask her lots of questions back then and the standard answer was I can't tell you dad.
When she got in the program we were visited by Goverenment agents and asked lots of questions. The agents went around to the neighbors and the schools she went too. I was asking her some things just lately and she told me that she had read that she was one of 46 women that served in the Titan Missile program. Nobody has stated that all crew members were armed with revolers. The crew consisted 2 on duty while 2 would sleep. Hoping some day we could go together and tour the silo. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 8:34:29 PM EDT
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Daughter served 25 years in the Air Force and 8 of them were in a Titan II Missile Silo. Use to ask her lots of questions back then and the standard answer was I can't tell you dad. When she got in the program we were visited by Goverenment agents and asked lots of questions. The agents went around to the neighbors and the schools she went too. I was asking her some things just lately and she told me that she had read that she was only one of 46 women that served in the Titan Missile program. Nobody has stated that all crew members were armed with revolers. The crew consisted 2 on duty while 2 would sleep. Hoping some day we could go together and tour the silo. That would be a fun trip for the two of you. Hope you get to do that! |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 8:52:37 PM EDT
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Back in the early 80's, a friend and myself did a self-guided tour of a missile silo on the north side of Chico.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 8:56:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: SAC museum Ashland Ne.  In 2000, I went back up to Grand Forks with a couple of fellow missileers to help disassemble on of the missile simulators there, box it up with a bunch of other stuff, and have it sent to the SAC museum for reassembly as a display. After 19 years, they dragged the consoles out of a box with an entire full-fidelity simulator...and stacked them against a wall. 
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