Not sure why they let a guy with a ponytail give a tour of a (former) military installation, but aside from that, I found it informative and thought-provoking:
[How to Launch a Nuclear Missile] (Viewer #736,657)
Could I turn the key…? I like to think so, but I also think about the opening scene of “War Games”.
Mutually assured destruction, Iran assures the world they’ll destroy the Israel and the Great Satan and the Great Satan assures them that he’ll help any way he can. Gee, I wonder why he says he’s moving to Hawaii?
I’ve pulled alerts at that site. I was DMAFB 1977-85. It was a cool job.
@2 Joe Mama – Walk the Wall Bacon to you for your service.
Joe Mama – Thank you for your service, especially in that role. A friend of mine from high school did his time underground and told me what a stressful job it was.
Apparently some of the silos have been sold and refurbished. Would make a great TEOTWAWKI shelter, probably would filter out electromagnetic pulse radiation should the Sun decide to have another Carrington Effect moment (or some bad guys detonate a nuke overhead and wipe out the computers).
HokieGomer – I was an enlisted guy so I didn’t have a whole lot of responsibility. I was an MFT (Missile Facilities Technician) responsible for all the support systems. There was another enlisted guy for the guidance system, and two officers. Mort of the time it was like a family. There were a few PITA but not that many. Regular crew only pulled max 8 shifts per month, sometimes 7. Minimum time of between alerts was 2 days. Sometimes the scheduling people were cool and you’d have almost a week off every month. You got 8 hrs to sleep. Had a TV (but we only got three stations). Got hooked on Young and the Restless – we sounded like a bunch of old ladies arguing over the episodes. That was a laid back job! If you knew what you were doing it was easy. Best time of my life. I was on alert when Elvis died, when Reagan got shot, and the two malfunctions at NORAD where the alert status went up.
http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/
The site even smells the same as it did back then.