[dighton]

As a former "Missileier" in the Hawk and Nike Hercules systems . . .

That's an item of personal interest, having lived a few blocks away, long ago, from a Nike base on Chicago's lakefront.

[elbucko]

That's an item of personal interest, having lived a few blocks away, long ago, from a Nike base....

If they were "Herc's", you were in the atomic age and didn't know it.
(shhhhhhh, Martin Sheen might find out he lived by them too)