McChord AFB in Seattle Evacuating

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[MGBGUN]

Just got word from my daughter stationed at McChord they are evacuating. EOD on base. Anyone one else heard anything?

[jblair]

Base Commanders make sure the pot holes get filled, paint and carpet housing, and stock the honor-fridges in the VOQ's. Other than the Pentagon, never has there been a gig where more Colonels' careers go to die.

My apologies to any former Base Commanders or their family members.

[em2vn]

Why would you post such information? It's isn't good for your daughter. Now anything she posts will be closely monitored by the "anti crowd" and anything she posts may come back to haunt her.

[El Gato]

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be an old WWII era bomb or something similar.

They wouldn't evacuate an entire base for that. A few hundred yards around the bomb, but not the entire base.

[El Gato]

and they JUST found it???? from WWII?

It happens. Not likely at McChord, but someplace like Vandenberg or Edwards, yeah, it happens.

[yarddog]

I never thought of myself as a coward but there is no way I would do that job.

[El Gato]

Makes a 747 look like a Cessna!!

Not really. A 747 freighter can lift more weight than a C-5, but the C-5 can carry more bulk. The C-5 could use a re-engining though, then it could lift both more weight and more volume.

[JRios1968]

Hehe...some of my best pals are EOD folks!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

They still get civil war cannon balls that will still go boom.

Color me skeptical. For one thing, didn't Civil War era cannonballs have exposed fuzes, not percussive? Water would have had to have seeped in and neutralized them long ago.

[yarddog]

I doubt they would go off too but don't really know. They did have percussion and timed fuses tho. Got that from watching the "History Channel".

[thescourged1]

Blow it in place and serve up BBQ to the lepers? ;)

[U S Army EOD]

They had both type of fuzes, once the black powder drys out it is as good as new.

[U S Army EOD]

Look at it this way, you don't have to worry about getting wounded and if you screw up, not only are you the first to know, but now one will chew you out.

[yarddog]

My Father was in the combat engineers in WWII. He once told me that they lost more people to the truck drivers than any thing else.

Next highest loss was due to clearing mine fields.

[lainie]

Hi. What was the deal yesterday?

[U S Army EOD]

Combat engineers was not a good place to be during WWII. There were a lot of accidental deaths everywhere. I had a friend who flew Lancaster bombers for the RAF. They would form up at night over England for their thousand plane raids with no running lights on. He said you could see flashes all over England due to mid air crashes as they would try to get in some sort of formation.

[af_republican]

Hey guys lay off my dad. He is just trying to keep everyone posted. And I work intelligence operations, so I think I know what to tell and what not to tell. thanks. As far as yesterday goes, it was a false alarm. There was a fire, and someone mentioned the word "bomb" so therefore all precautions were taken. The "anti-crowd" can find somewhere else to post if they have a problem getting updates on our military. Thanks for all your prayers, and sorry for any unnecessary worrying.

[af_republican]

And FYI...EOD is on EVERY military base. C-17s dont carry nukes, and there arnt any WWII nukes here (McChord). :)

[El Gato]

. C-17s dont carry nukes, and there arnt any WWII nukes here (McChord). :)

However McChord did have F-102s and F-106s in the 50s and 60s, which could carry the Genie nuclear armed Air to Air missile, and the nuclear armed AIM-26 Falcon (derived from the more common AIM-4 conventionally armed Falcon series) , the original model of which was nuclear armed.

I guarantee that none of those were just left laying around somewhere on base. :)