US Air Force sacks nuclear commander after blunders

Space War ^ | 10/15/2009 | Staff Writers

[Moe Tzadik]

three Air Force officers at the wing fell asleep in July 2008 while in possession of classified components containing missile launch codes for ICBMs

No worries, I'm sure the Russkies and ChiComs aren't taking any notice.

Does anybody wonder what 'discipline' the Chinese would have for their commanders if this happened? Hmmmmm?

Let's just be done with this farce - email the launch codes to the ChiComs with a CC to the Russkies. This movie is getting BORING and long.

[Pelham]

Jack Ripper, P.O.E.

I’m thinking that Colonel Ayres simply wanted to get out of Minot, where cold weather was perfected.

[Pelham]

Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio is gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain’t gonna spot us on no radar screen!

[Tallguy]

Colonel Ayres more than likely will be riding a desk pending retirement. Getting out of Minot isn’t the only thing he’ll be leaving.

[Pelham]

My uncle was at the SAC base there years ago. One winter someone started ringing their doorbell each morning, but when they answered the door no one was there. After about a week of this their neighbor across the street said “how did you teach your cat to ring the doorbell?”

[matthew fuller]

"Where do they send you if you screw up at Minot? An Alaska DEW site?"

The Pentagon, where else?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Or Retirement

[STARWISE]

~~PING!

[STARWISE]

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[penelopesire]

This is extremely unnerving. I was being flip about it yesterday(remembering some major snafus at that command in recent years), but in light of the new information and the fact that the Navy trident guy has been removed too..something is up. It’s not good either.