Your mind plays weird tricks when you are standing alone in the dead of night trying to stay awake and what passes for being alert.
Exactly. It’s like the military never heard of sensors and cameras.
Amphetamine use is directly proportional to the observation of shadow people.
Did the guard recently watch ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’?
Right. At Clark AFB in 1971 we got called out at night for an ALERT. They threw me out at an elephant grass patch I llooked around and decided I was close to the runway drop off about 600 yards away. After a couple of hours at staring at the dark, I heard jet engines fire up (about a mile away from where that is commonplace). Soon the drop off lit up and an obvious jet lifted SLOOWLY up where I could see it plainly. I locked and loaded, watched this thing rotate fron L to right, point itself in the correct position and roared off with exhaust flaring. I didn’t know if i was supposed to shoot him down or what. I never saw ANYTHING like that. About an hour later a Colenel or something came out, I reported to him,he offered me a cigarrete,and said “See anything tonight, Airman?” I knew no Col. ever inspected boondock posts, so i said “No sir.” Here they were testing a Harrier aircraft. I had to clean my knickers out.
NO ONE is alone when working on or guarding a nuke.