Posted on 02/11/2010 12:45:34 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Air Force has decertified a unit responsible for maintaining an estimated 2,000 nuclear warheads at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, but top military officials won't discuss specifics of the decision.
Decertification means members of the 898th Munitions Squadron cannot perform their usual duties with nuclear weapons.
Air Force officials declined to specify what that means.
Air Force officials also declined to disclose what concerns prompted the action, but Ron Fry, a spokesman for the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, said Wednesday the move wasn't prompted by any risk to the public.
"There is no risk to security, safety or health," he said.
The New Mexico unit will be re-inspected and could be recertified by June, Fry said. Until then, he said qualified individuals from Air Force units based elsewhere will monitor nuclear weapons stored at Kirtland, located on Albuquerque's south side.
Fry said security and stewardship of nuclear weapons remains an Air Force priority, and squadrons assigned to handle nuclear assets are evaluated using rigid criteria.
"This is a business where, as part of the mission, you can't get a score of 99 out of 100 and pass. It's got to be 100 percent," Fry said.
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Failed their nuke surety inspection aka NSI I bet..... More audit trap admin inspector crap than safety or security in my opinion an experience.
KUMSC is a underground facility. Neat place to “visit”.....:o)
My bet is this is obumber disarming US.
The good news is that some junior officers can look forwards to promotion. With a blot like this on their record, virtually every officer in that squadron might as well plan on turning in the suit.
Senior NCOs might also find it’s time to retire.
The ceretification is very strict. Something really major was caught. You are not dealing with candy machines, you are dealing with nuclear weapons.
I agree with you
Maybe Obama will outsource the job to Jordan
This might be interesting:
Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Management
http://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/pages/USNuclearDeterrence.html
I’ve been part of 5 NSIs. It doesn’t take much to eff one up.
Maybe lack of sufficient personnel
I think that there are going to be a lot of blood letting.
Safe to say that for the next four months...no leave for anyone. Folks will end up putting in a couple of hours every weekend for some kind of training effort. And this will simply make junior personnel more hostile at the senior NCO’s and officers that they didn’t “see” this coming. The sad thing is that this could be the effort of two or three lazy individuals who never paid attention to detail.
The SAC standard was always to keep things as simple as possible and repeat those practices over and over. No changes and no enhancements (which is the exact opposite of the new Air Force you see today).
The recertification had a new question which they all got wrong and so failed.
Question
Which is the most important priority in your job: maintaing the nuclear weapons you are in charge of or preventing global warming?
I suspect you’re correct, having been on the wrong end of one of those way back when. One misplaced entry in a personnel record was all it took. A couple of quick admin fixes and the immediate reinspection was fine. I was lucky - the command didn’t chop off my head.
The group will be re-certified when diversity goals are reached; and all manuals are translated into spanish and farsi.
“The group will be re-certified when diversity goals are reached; and all manuals are translated into spanish and farsi.”
Obviously, they are doing work no American will do. :)
They never failed NSI inspections or any of the stuff you guys are imagining.
My sources are saying that nuclear arsenal is being outsourced to the Chinese by Obama. They can do it much cheaper thereby giving our national debt some relief.
The Chinese ships bringing us Walmart crap will take the nukes back with them.
So give Obama a break. He’s trying.
Big ass doors.
The guys got decertified because they flunked their Nuclear Readiness Inspection.
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