Posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance
I woke up abruptly. Overzealous JROTC Cadets ran and yelled on the high school track across the street. I rolled over and grabbed my reading glasses. Time to return to the book which I’d fallen asleep reading. It’s Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile by Eugene Sheppard. Thirty minutes later, I faced a tough choice. Should I go down and check on my children? Or watch an old Lomachenko fight on Youtube? Then my wife called up, “Babe, it’s garbage day. Take out the trash!” So I rushed downstairs. My typical Saturday ritual. As I dragged the trash out a bizarre sound boomed from my phone. I read the message:
“Ballistic missile threat inbound. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”
“So it’s today,” I thought...
(Excerpt) Read more at stream.org ...
I think that fellow who stay out to play a last round of golf had the right idea. But so did the journalist who took his family to the cave on the other side of the mountain. So also did the fellow at the cave who left his position of safety to find his wife.
Doing something with intention always beats curling up and whimpering.
Some Democrats argued that seriously.
In my storage unit ( out of the country right now) I have this vintage book: Fallout shelter handbook.
It shows you how to dig a shelter, arrange one in the basement, how to test if the radiation has gone down.
https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-shelter-handbook-Fawcett-book/dp/B0007ET1DG
But the best is Cade Courtley’s video series Surviving Disaster on surviving a nuclear attack. ( The whole series is great as his Seal Survival Guide.) Hint turn away from the initial blast and open your mouth.
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Atlas and Titan I were quickly replaced by the Titan II and the Minuteman I. The Titan II and Minuteman missiles launched right out of their silos and their propellants were stored inside the missile so it took only a minute or less from keyturn to launch. The internally stored propellants and the silo launch made them more survivable. When I was quite young I used to see B-47s performing fighter evasion tactics with Air Force fighters over my home.
When I was a Missile Maintenance Officer (Mechanical Branch Chief) at Grand Forks I used to dispatch in my truck with either a cage or a pipe pusher. One of my MMT troops got stuck in the cage down in Mike Flight while I was up in Bravo. Poor guy couldn't get rescued until I got down there with the spare cage.
You should have kept reading. It’s an interesting article.
There are people on this earth who actually welcome a nuke strike on their location. Think of those in NOKO concentration camps and those Christians living in areas occupied by ISIS or those thinking of committing suicide.
BUMP. Deserves repeating.
It is worth the read.
Wise words. Very wise words. Copied and pasted to a personal diary.
I wonder how long it will take for Hollywood to make it into a movie?
People really leave their phones on 24 hours a day? That is what landline is for, I thought.
Would love to see a video of a B-47 doing a loft release.
Saw a fighter doing a demo at an air show decades ago, but the idea of a B-47 doing that...............
i really doubt many people took it seriously when it was just a message on a cell phone with no warning sirens
How about “It is better to eliminate injustice and tyranny that to let it live, fester and spread to the rest of mankind.”
That would be a true act of justice. Letting the suffering go on is truly an injustice of the worst kind.
As a member of a Holocaust wiped out European side of the family, I would rather have had American and British bombers destroy Auschwitz than to let Mengele do his experiments on children, or the SS gas them in the chambers.
Liberals are very liberal at sacrificing other peoples’ lives for their own sanctimonious vain feelings.
I would have LOVED to have done that!!!
I'd still like to visit it in person; and not just looking down from GoogleEarth.
My favorite pastime was battery spill cleanup. Also on the lower floor to the left was something we called the PCB door. We had to open that door, go in there and wipe up the PCB’s that were dripping from the electronics. I’m surprised after almost 35 years I haven’t gotten cancer yet.
Good times. How did you guys do when 4th came out to test y’all?
God bless the guy who drove back toward his wife.
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