Several of us carried an old wood Diamond match box. On them them we put the address of the designated community and a stamp. Inside the matchbox, we left a note. "If found put us in here and drop in any mailbox".
“I was doing Minuteman Missile maintenance at Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls MT. Part of the emergency plan was to go to a reconstitution site in the nearby mountains after a first strike.”
I was FMMS at Ellsworth back in 80-83. Was doing work in the launch tube with another airman when someone high up decided to run an EWO (Emergency War Order) exercise. Spent 3 hours in a cage lift, chest to chest with the other airman, in the dark, in the missile tube with everyone else evacuated. Not knowing if it was a drill or the real thing.
I was on missile crew and then a Missile Maintenance Officer at Grand Forks. We all thought the recon locations were a joke.