Food for thought ya’ll.. maybe it wasn’t an accident..
A: Ahmannutjob was making some bold postures at the time, and maybe this was a veiled deliberate warning.
B: Training mission to teach personnel proper handling of live nuclear weapons, leaked and the accidental loading was the only way to pose it so that it wasn’t seen as deliberate, and the DOD is covering for the persons involved in it by calling it a mistake.
C: President may have given field commanders discretion in deploying (not launching, but strategic placement) of nuclear arsenal). This makes a good deal of sense, because it is a VERY bad idea to keep all the nuclear weapons in one place, in the event of a nuclear attack.
Hmmmm! Had it happened and they were flying towards say, Iran.
This smells like BS to me.
“The staff at Minot Air Field had neglected to follow procedure for the sake of saving time. The verification of weapons — what kind, what warheads they carry, their armament status — should take about 45 minutes, and be performed before anything else happens. “
In a surprise attack can we really even count these weapons in our arsenal. I mean if it takes 45 minutes to verify they are what the sheet says they are couldn’t they be lost in a first strike against us???
Gotta be a better way folks.
We are a nation of wimps, today.
Extreme food for though. Bump, index.
Curtis Le May would have scorched the ass off of all the officers in that chain of command.
Actually he wouldn’t have had to - they would have had procedures in place and followed them to the letter.
Peace is our profesion was the motto of SAC.
That meant they were professionals.
Todays mish mash of commands creates more slots for senior officers... not more efficency for the service.
Gotta have those stars.