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To: OldMissileer

“I almost cried”.

Are you sure about that?

All of the alert facilities I was locked up in over time, are also imploded just by the passage of time. Oops not quite, I think the bomber alert facilities at Minot, and Ellsworth are still in existence. Physically anyway, but not as alert facilities.

The only question in my mind is what they did with the crew capsules. I don’t recall those being part of the destruction. Around here the buildings above ground are still there complete with fencing.


65 posted on 04/10/2012 2:18:12 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita
When they decommissioned the Titan II sites they blew up the Head Works. That is, the Silo Closure Door area thus rendering the site useless for launch. The launch Control Centers were left intact. Some sites had the Long Cable-way (the underground tube giving access from the Control Center to the Silo/Missile) destroyed while many were left intact.

The Minuteman Launch Facilities (where the missiles were) were blown up entirely and covered in. The Launch Control Facilities were stripped of everything that could be recycled. The underground capsules had ALL metal removed. Even the plate steel liner of the capsule itself was torn off the concrete.

Once that was accomplished the remaining empty concrete “egg” was filled with sand. There is nothing left but those “eggs” and they someday could be mistaken for very large, deep, septic tanks.

66 posted on 04/10/2012 4:30:24 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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