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@@travelingtom923 yes , captivating thank you.

Maybe the old style oiling can..... just a half sphere with a spout that you'd squeeze the flat portion of the sphere to pump oil out of the spout. Then the depressed flat base "pings" or pops back out into shape...?

The skin was very thin on a lot of early rockets. The liquid fuel gave them rigidity.

As a launch crew member on the Titan II at Davis-Monthan, I had the opportunity to lower the work platforms and actually touch the missle and warhead. Never tried to push against the skin. Didn't know it was that thin. It was one big missle.

The Marine Corps had a similar job. It was called an IFMM. In Flight Missile Mechanic. Truly the “tip of the spear.”

i was stationed at Sheppard in 1972. i didn't even know that they had missile training there until i went to the Titian Missile Museum in Green Valley Az and they mentioned it. The one in the Silo is from Sheppard. I was training as a Power Lineman after my AFSC was changed from "Missile Maintenance Technician". Best Regards

bill timmons my understanding was the engineered the control center and silo to withstand 3000 psi, not 300....and what is sobering is the small size of the warheads. Almost unimaginable power.

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We still have them.

More than you ever can imaging.

@Ganiscol Yeah, ICBMs are still powerful weaponry, but the sub-launched Trident missiles are a lot harder to detect and can be launched in far more areas around the planet. Hence why a number of ICBM silos are decommissioned now (Russia has done similarly with a number of theirs).

They’re undersea now in nuclear fast attack submarines. And they’re all over the world, ready at a moment’s notice.

@@muzaaaaak they are in boomers, not the fast attack type subs.

Tylenole lmao ya me too. The pour guy didn't know what he was getting himself into. At least his kids think he's cool now though.

His channel is 'Death wears bunny slippers'

and most know whom I was referring too

Yeah, right? It's like buying a wreck of a car and trying to make it a decent ride, all by yourself, haha. Must be really satisfying at the end tho.

Who?

Yes and working there you get to see the entire complex which most people will never see. Must be a fun job.

Is your wife maybe my wife's sister?

That particular site was decommed in 1982, not 1987.

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Me, too, I missed visiting. We both saved money though and can watch it all on the internet although the sheer size probably can only truly be experienced seeing it in person.

Yes as a child of the 70's and 80's I remember well both Russia and the USA building huge stockpiles of atomic weapons. I was sure at some point we would get attracted by Russia. Many people thought the end of the World was near with MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction. Some great movies came out along this time. Two of my favorites are War games and Spies like us.

@@travelingtom923 yes I remember both of those movies. "The only way to win, is not to play" and well what can you say about Mr Chase & Mr Aykroyd comical due, exceptional. Thanks for your upload and your time, I would like to wish you and your family all the best for the future.

Wow! Nice to see what the silos looked like before they where turned to scrap, have been watching the after videos, full of water and mud etc ... Also so true about the feelings we had back then I used to come home from work and part of the trip was a view off Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and I honestly my thoughts where IF I saw the mushroom cloud how could I save my family, I very real fear, they looked at me in wonder as I cried when the wall (iron curtain) came down ...

I don't want to be pessimist, but the situation is worse today. Pakistan has Nukes, and Iran could get some ... The M.A.D. concept worked between somewhat intelligent nations. But what about kamikazes/martyrs in low IQ nations ? :s

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Indeed. While kind of scary, they are an important part of our nation's history. Good to see this one preserved for the future generations.

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I was on crew 43 from 1963 to 66 I was back about 2004 and all guide had T II experience. We are all getting old.

Steve you can take the service elevator to and from the main level. When I left the main level I took the service elevator up, as shown in the video. You should be fine.

Still a lot of active missile sites in Wyoming. I believe those are all remote control now.

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Alis Avdagić well that won't happen because most have already been destroyed

It’s a museum because they have better weapons in space. Energy directed lasers

@@unclemonster48 And "rods from God"

@@markmiller4971 saw a video about that this morning.

I used to work on those 2 elevators at each of the 18 sites in Kansas

You are welcome. I would check the website for the details of that site. There was many silos around Tuscon and many are still abandoned.

Brad Wilmot. Ient to visit my parents last week. They literally live 1/4 mile away. First thing I when I got there.

Eddy Q cool any other anecdotal nuggets?

My job is to remove it form the face of the earth if president gave the order

True, but looking at it another way, the effort and resources put into the design and construction of facilities like this were intended to SAVE our species. Remember, the M.A.D. deterrent worked. If not for silos like this, SAC bombers and nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines (the nuclear triad) and all the thought, effort and resources used for all of these, it's quite likely during the 1950s thru 1980s a foe, the USSR perhaps, or the PRC, might have not thought twice about removing the US from the map if given the chance. They both possessed nuclear weapons and had already killed off millions of their own people in revolutions in their own nations' histories. So, if survival of the species - of planet Earth even - is the goal, these are resources well spent. Very well spent, indeed. And thank goodness for those with the intelligence and skill to have accomplished these tasks. And we can all be thankful they never had to be used. Deterrence works.

@Marq LOECSTA - YES! - but you cannot un-invent them! Who would you rather hold that capability?

@@chrisdraper5067 If good people don't step into the power vacuum bad people will.

From what I have read - Many politicians tried to prove Titan was a first strike weapon, but the defences say otherwise. At the time, they could not be used publically as proof. I wish a higher power would stike down grandstanding politicians who try to use security silence for their own gain.

oooooooo dam opppps

It is discouraged since it would destroy the world.

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When I was in the Navy 84-88 the inside of the ship was painted the same color we called it "Pea Green". That color was common as studies have shown it to have a calming effect on people.

You can find that color everywhere in the military. We had it on the insides of our APC's even.

I was there from august 71 to april 74

I worked in the water treatment, elevator repair, and plumbing shops

and I lived on the 2nd floor of the dorm building 320

yeah maybe we didn't and also our shop was in the hangar with the building #1107

Yes, but it worked as a deterrent so we are all better off because of it.

If it makes you feel better, and it probably won't - yours were pointed at us as well. I'm just glad both sides refrained from the unthinkable destruction we both possessed.

John Watson the accuracy of the Titan II was actually quite good. The minuteman series were even better, the mm3 can hit a target within 300 to 500 meters of the bullseye

Depends on what you mean by quite good - using an inertial system no better than used for later commercial aircraft it was calculated to land, at best, somewhere within a couple of miles from its target.

@@johnwatson3948 a 9 megaton ground strike within 1 or 2 miles if bullseye will obliterate a hardened target. That's why the warhead used was so big. Today's 350kt to 500kt warheads hitting a target within 200-450yards does the same thing

Also remember the minuteman series was the next generation weapons system that replaced the Titan series, not worked in conjuction with it. As the minuteman 1 missles sites came on line, the Titan II's were phased out, and decommissioned.

That’s difficult to remember because it isn’t true. Minuteman became active in 1962 with Titan II first active in 1963. Titan II ended in 1987 so they worked in conjunction for 24 years.