[ASOC]

The O rings were so well known as an issue, when the USAF built a Shuttle launch facility at VAndyland, they had added jet engines to the tower infrastructure to heat the SRBs prior to launch.

Of course, with this loss, there was no longer any ‘spare’ shuttles for military launches from the Air Force Base

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-space-shuttle-s-military-launch-complex-in-californ-1710303170

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/08/astronaut-interview-30-years-after-the-hopes-of-a-west-coast-space-shuttle/.

[larryjohnson]

I was assigned to both cancelled programs in the Los Angeles AFB
System Program Office SPOs. MOL and AF shuttle. Both jobs were planning SLC 6 construction.