We moved to Fort Worth in ‘74 about 10 miles from the old Carswell SAC base. The first time they had an alert I thought we were in the middle of an earthquake. The whole house rattled. At first it bothered me but soon it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing what they were about. A couple of squadrons of B-52’s and KC-135’s does make a racket.
Of course, later on you realized that SAC base was a primary Soviet target.........I felt like I had a bulleye painted on me when I was working for several years at Pearl Harbor, knowing the Chicoms had it set to take out first.