Posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance
1/2 the population will just continue to circle the island waiting for the flash.
Lived in Spokane, home to Fairchild AFB. Uded to be the home of the 92nd Bomb Wing. Place was full of B-52’s and KC-135’s. They said we likly had at least 2 ‘city-buster’ class bombs targeted on us.
Tis more blessed to give than receive.
It is the liberal answer. All we are saying is give peace a chance. Too bad it could not work like that!
Back in my youth while in the Army, I worked at a pretty high level civilian local in D.C. At a national intelligence level, this happened probably 1-3 times a month. False radar returns, malfunctioning electronics, birds, whatever; a radar return would generate a conference call on what was then called NOIWON(National Operational Intelligence Watch Officer’s Network) Everyone on the list would listen to the Pentagon, confidence levels were always low, but you listened anyway. (Who the hell wants to miss this?? lol) Never woke anybody up at night, during the day, never told anyone who would have to know, except in “this happened today, no big deal”. The public never knew.
This was a civilian snafu, he/she will not be punished, will not lose pay. Thousands had the crap scared out of them, but no big deal. Protect the bureaucrat.
This guy is not ready for anything other than turning the other cheek, handing his wife and kids over to whoever wants them, and trying to blame someone else other than the offender. I couldn’t read the whole thing. Maybe another try later.
I agree with you in thinking we were most likely to die in a nuclear exchange. I picked this pamphlet up at the library from a rack labelled “please circulate” in 1980. 70 pages of valuable tips on preparations and survival. I actually incorporated some of the bomb shelter pointers when building my house in 1988.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6EYykewEtgvRVpvRGthaVVNeGIzVDRVaThISWpuc0JIVEln
"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Go Trump!
From the article:
1.As we entered [Makua Cave], a tourist was there with a walking stick and backpack. “I guess we won’t die today,” I said. He gave me a look of fear and confusion. He hadn’t gotten the alert. And he saw a 9 mm gun stuck in my waist. So I told him what had just happened to the whole state of Hawaii. He looked … relieved.
That poor tourist probably really pooped his drawers. Not what you want to hear from a crazy man.
2. On the drive home, my ten-year-old son asked me this question:
“Dad, why don’t we just nuke North Korea off the face of the earth, so we don’t have to worry about this anymore.” [thats one smart kid!]
I breathed deep and posed him another question. “Are there children in North Korea?”
“Yes.”
“Are they as precious as you?”
“I don’t know”
“Of course they are. Are there fathers in North Korea?”
“Yes.”
“Are their lives as precious as your father’s?” He didn’t answer. So I concluded, “It is better to suffer injustice than to inflict it.”
Dad sounds like Neville Chamberlain in 1938 after coming home from Munich.
Me neither but at least the guy packs a 9mm to protect his kids from more proximate threats. We are still paying for Truman’s vanity.
There are effectively no carry permits in Hawaii.
The guy totally overreacted. Luckily there were only a few panicky people that recklessly sped to wherever they were going ..Most of us gradually started to figure out that it was a likely a farce due to no news coverage, no sirens, the fact that N Korea is meeting with S Korea and suck
at shooting missiles, and there are multiple lines of missile defense, not to mention that Hawai’i is 5 islands spread out over 350 miles, each separated by miles of ocean, thus reducing the chances of being near a hit.
Within ten minutes, my 15 year old son, who was very calm, quickly googled his way to Tulsi Gabbard, who was the first one to declare the false alarm.
I was thinking more the scene where Indiana accidentally sets off the nuke in Suburbantestville and tobaggans out in a fridge.
I never considered that it might have been real and we intercepted it. If that was the case I can sure understand the public not being told about it.
He’s also channeling Nately’s whore’s grandfather in Catch-22.
“It is better to live on your knees than to die on your feet.”
I am baffled.
When I was a kid my town had nuclear tipped Hercules SAM missile installations as part of the ring that protected New York and Philadelphia, the installations were just a few miles from my home. I’m sure that made my town a target at the time, as a Soviet surprise ICBM or SLBM attack would look to knock out those installations to allow their bombers to get through. Eventually as ICBM’s became even more prevalent with less emphasis on bombers, the Hercules sites were considered obsolete and decommissioned back in the 1970s. Don’t know if my town is a direct target anymore, but I’m close enough to New York that it probably doesn’t matter anyway.
WW-III began with Operation Masterdom
in Vietnam
on September 13, 1945
[Fairchild]
Just don’t put Rebecca into the right seat of the ‘52 - nor the Rebecca from Seinfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mkSCVZ0Ec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqYZIxxCEzM
Nope - just in the boneyard. They fly A-10 and OA/10s and people still bit*h about the noise. I expect the base to be closed in the next couple of years with only the MASDEC salvage part remaining.
Agreed
Also a father would believe his child is more precious than a child of another. Obviously the author does not have such feelings for his own child.
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