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...
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When they get done with this, I will not be surprised if they find that this was a political statement by a disaffected employee.
I grew up there, too. Howdy neighbor.
What is the 4th? During my time (thru 1980) the SAC IG and 3901st did the unit evals.
“What is the 4th? During my time (thru 1980) the SAC IG and 3901st did the unit evals.”
My bad. You are correct. I remember a group coming out from Vandy to do evals. There was some competition among SAC bases, I don’t remember the name. Me and my teammate were doing some work and we were being eval’d. I just remember us arguing and finally going to the book for the answer, which was the proper thing to do in the first place.
3901st was always a goat rope for the Combat Crews but not so much for us maintenance officers.
I always tried to stay out of my men’s way during 01st or IG visits as they had enough to worry about.
The competition was Olympic Arena. I didn’t see much sense in it so I stayed away from that stuff as well. When I was enlisted on Titan II crew and also on crew in Minuteman they kept asking me to try out for OA but I refused. It didn’t go over too well with the dilettantes who thought OA was the only thing in life. I just wanted to do the job.
... an official looking warning about an incoming nuke.
I've seen tons of references to a nuke warming, but the alert says nothing about nukes.
Yeah if you get one of those (or two) just charge it up. I know my Virgin Mobile PayLo does it so I’d recommend finding one of them. If you don’t touch it, (lighting up the screen) it should easily stayed charged for 3-4 weeks. Cheap weather Alert / Presidential Alert tool.
Seems one of the ties that binds freepers together is childhood experiences with thoughts of death... . Interesting post
IMO the competing EMT teams were acting like perfumed princes. It was actually gratifying to see some of them crash and burn.
One team lost a ton of points on time and maybe even the Blanchard Trophy because one troop wore his safety belt back to our squadron after they finished their task. Because he left the added equipment on, 3901st graded him as still doing the task until he took it off..Doh!!
In any decision the future 'may pay'. The question to be answered is always 'What cost to the present?' Hiroshima and Nagasaki were good calls.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
They do tours of AMARG daily during the week - you do have to contact them about a month in advance as they do a background check on you before the tour. It is a secure facility now (well, it was back then too, but probably not as well-guarded as it should have been :))
Heh ... you’re hardly the only one who grew up near SAC base ... we all figured we were toast when (not if) the balloon went up.
I have friends who were there. They got up early, went to the beach, then heard sirens... air-raid type... for 30 minutes wondering what the heck! Watching people run (to where, exactly?) and commotion inland.
It was a bit frightening for them, but mostly eery.
Somehow they survived without blogging or going on the news. :)
Just get to the vault. You’ll be fine....
imho there would be a danger that the venturi effect might pull the civilians right out of the bunker. the hole needs to be covered with a heavy cover. (i might be missing something...)
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