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| Active duty USAF in Strateic Air Command. Interesting time.
"All warfare is based on deception" Sun Tzu, The art of War
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| Posts: 552 | Location: Gulf Coast of SW Florida | Registered: August 13, 2008 |
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Partial dichotomy
| I was four. I don't remember anything about it. I suppose my parents shielded me from whatever I might have understood anyway.
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| Posts: 39480 | Location: SC Lowcountry/Cape Cod | Registered: November 22, 2002 |
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| quote: Originally posted by 6guns: I was four. I don't remember anything about it. I suppose my parents shielded me from whatever I might have understood anyway.
Same here. 4 years old at the time and I don't remember anything about it either. |
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| I was in 4th grade at the time. We only practiced "Tornado" drills where we went into the hallway and crouched along the windowless walls. Although we were aware of the situation, as kids we more interested in the upcoming Halloween party.
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| Posts: 2463 | Location: Wylie, Texas | Registered: November 12, 2005 |
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| There was a Bay Area personality, can't remember the name, did some subbing on radio talk shows, he had a Ph.D. in some engineering field, worked at Lawrence Livermore Labs at the time. He tells of being whisked away clandestine fashion to an underground US nuclear missile site, where he was one of those with his finger on the button, merely waiting for orders. He was convinced at the time he would never see his family again. When all was over he was returned, again clandestine fashion, to hid workplace. He says it took him a week before he sobered up after that.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 |
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| quote: Originally posted by bald1: this story about some Lab scientist doesn't pass the smell test.
I agree. It’s actually ridiculous to believe that some civilian scientist would suddenly be put in the position to launch nuclear weapons.
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| Posts: 47952 | Location: 10,150 Feet Above Sea Level in Colorado | Registered: April 04, 2002 |
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| I was stationed at Sheppard AFB. We were on alert. Had a XNavy SEAL there that reupped in the AF and he was notified to be ready to be called back.
Officers lives matter!
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| Posts: 3265 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: February 12, 2012 |
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| I had fulfilled my six year contract -- four years regular Navy plus two years reserve -- five months earlier, and had been discharged. I kept wondering if I was going to be called back. I was a missile (Regulus) guy.
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| Posts: 31699 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Dresden: Yep, we didnt have a fallout shelter, and lived about five miles from a SAC base. I was old enough to know what was going on, and our family spent a nerve wracking two weeks or so.
I was 15 at the time and I remember my father saying that the neighbors that had fallout shelters built were nuts because we lived close to a SAC bomber base that was ground zero for multiple warheads. He said we would be incinerated in a split second but the people in their shelters would suffer a slow and agonizing death. It kind of took the scare out of the equation. Jim
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| Posts: 9791 | Location: The right side of Washington State | Registered: September 14, 2008 |
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