Gregory Miller I was watching this at Malmstrom AFB in 1991

Every duty day at 1300 they would test the klaxon. When it went off, everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY on base checked their watch, it was either 1300 or say your prayers and be quick about it if you wanted to get to amen. One of those Strangelovian things you just got used to. Good times!😂

Pumped a lot of JP-4 on those BUFFS and KCs at Shady Jay 79-83.

Always treaded lightly around you SP boys whenever my duties put me at the Alert Pad, followed procedures and instructions to the letter. Lot of "USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED" signs to remind us of where exactly we were. We were told "the second halt is written on the bullet," I never tested that proposition.😂😂😂💀💀💀

@@johnnybanks5321 My crew chief and I were often assigned as the "hot crew" with our P2 crash firefighting truck, among other things that meant we would have to set up as safety standby whenever a KC135 did a rapid defuel. At least one of the J57s was firewalled during this process, will never forget the banshee shriek those things put out! Ah, the sound of freedom!😁

Andy Smith You were probably very relieved when you find out that it was a drill. I don't want to know projections of losses should WW3 happens.

What did you crew chiefs and everyone else do once the bombers and the tankers launched? Wait to get nuked?

I was assigned to the 92d Security Police Squadron, when the klaxon sounded I was authorized to exit the Bomber Alert Area and head down the parallel taxiway with the accelerator floored to beat the first B-52 to the 05 end of the runway! Then I switched to working the alarm tower and had a commanding view of the taxiway leading to the 23 end of the runway! I also had a radio with the control tower frequency and alert force frequencies in the Tower. Thank God we never launched in anger!

Oh I know. I was on the flight line throwing sign/counter sign to the 135 crews

Gregory Miller 341st. SPS and 839th. MSS here

@Fuzzy Butkus Strategic Air Command!!!Been There!!!Done That!!!1970s 43151E Style 4 engine + jet. Ken Ford Jr.

Actually SAC was a victim of it's own success, the USSR collapsed and broke apart. The nuclear deterrence mission was successful and I will always be proud to have been a part of SAC. Took my son and grandsons to the SAC Museum in Omaha last weekend

Mr Gorbachev tore down that wall. I proudly wear a SAC patch on my hat to this day. Peace Was Our Profession.

Do you think the modern bomber and ICBM force still fulfill that role even though they are SAC no longer?

@@drhelios132 DRH, Yes, but the global balance of power is shifting, so that the RELATIVE power of the USA is not as overwhelming as it was in 1980.

@@bbouchardeThe USSR had a larger and better equipped ground & helicopter force but a smaller airforce & navy. They were probably, alongside the Warsaw pact 50-60% stronger than NATO forces, the ones in Europe at least. The US global power peaked in my opinion between 1994-2001

Not that pricey. It would be like having a Charger today, or a GT-R. They had finance back then too. The entire point of muscle cars was that they were cheap enough to be affordable to young men, unlike powerful cars available prior to that time, like Cadillacs. And people were driving Cadillacs in the hood back then. It could be done. Of course even an "expensive" car was relatively a lot cheaper back then. Even taking inflation into account, cars are way more expensive than they used to be. All the technology and safety features in modern cars cost money, which is only partly offset by modern manufacturing technology.

And that stereo Receiver PIONEER ,Kenwood Maybe with a Modest Place to Live !.

Dont forget to let the skin on that chicken!

lmao this right here!

Yet…..

They dropped that 50 Meg and we freaked out,coming up with shit like a 280mm nuclear gun....

thereal440volt Im sure some will have damage.

If it moves salute it…if it doesn’t paint it! In SAC 1982-1991…was a BUFF EW at Barksdale and Castle

It didn't. Tactical Command was the counterpart of Strategic Command. They have totally different missions. Tactical force deals with battlefield strikes, air superiority, interdiction, basically combat aviation. Strategic forces are used for international nuclear deterrence.

The new SAC is Air Force Global Strike Command. (As far as I know)

We no longer have a force that thinks strictly of thermonuclear war, that was the primary mission of SAC was to wage, IF NECESSARY GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR, but the PREFERRED job of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND was to MAINTAIN PEACE THROUGH DETERRENCE. As a former member of the strategic Air command in the middle 70s through the early 80s, and quite literally a lifelong student of thermonuclear war (in the seventh grade I went down to our local civil defense office and clean them out of everything on shelters, radiological defense, everything and I was the first kid they had visited them in years. I was reading some of material my spare time at school and ended up in the counselor's office with my principal, with my parents and with the school shrink. THEY felt it was odd for a 7th grader to have an interest thermonuclear war, let alone surviving such an event. And I am still a student at age 65 and back in 2014 when Putin took Crimea I updated all my radiological equipment. I do wish to thank comrade Putin for the kick in the pants for me to drag my stuff from 1950s technology into the 2000's tech and maintaining 6 months worth food, water and medicines in my home again. I stopped doing that back in 92 after the Soviet Union fell, boy how wrong I was.....) And now with access to former government files that have been declassified at all levels. The documents range from notes between various administrators government think tanks to formally classified top secret and above from various commands within the United States military and various agencies to those commands. Those documents and communications up with the stories written by various political figures. I have found very disturbing things, some things remained clear and unfortunately ended up being made much, much darker. All in all I think we still do not have a firm grasp how close we came to ending life as we know it, at least for humans in the northern hemisphere. Let's just hope we're as lucky with what's currently happening and avoid the potential of a local if not a planetary extinction level event for human beings.....

@@keithvernonlewis9403 You are sane. The rest of us are partially of fully in denial.

​​@@keithdmaust1854thank you much for your kindness and I hope that none of us end up being flash-fried because of certain individuals insanity or maybe a long-term plan. I am in the process of getting my two sons geared up in the event of a worst-case scenario. MY youngest son is in the Air Force and he started asking serious questions of me and we have a plan to evacuate his wife and our granddaughter in the event things get hot from the salt lake.... One of the horrifying things that has been going on in Washington state over the years, is Washington state civil defense does not have or provide information on radiological warfare. BACK in the eighties they felt that Ronald Reagan was too much of a warmonger so they refused any federal funding to provide information on radiological warfare to a citizens but they do have plenty of things like in the event of a tidal wave or a volcano goes off maybe some odds and ends about a terrorist attack but if you want a radiological information or how to build a fallout shelter you're just really out of luck, it's nice to know that we still haven't learned a damn thing about the dangers of politics in our nation. So I hope yours and your family friends are doing well and please give some thought to the current situation in the world as I fear that my son is about to be deployed to some Faraway place

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