What you would have really loved ( and might have experienced part of) was an Alert drill. 2 weeks on Alert at the Alert barracks with the 52’s and 47’s lined up and ready to take off. The sirens wail, the crews race for the planes and in a matter of minutes dozens are airborn. The ground actually shakes from the power of the engines.
And all the while you know the crews are practicing to protect us.
Yes. We experienced the alerts as they took off over us. It did cause the ground to shake. From what I understand they were also carrying nuclear bombs as well. Cool. That was classified but well known.