I guess so, though it certainly would seem odd to have the guys carrying pistols like that in case some Spetznaz units stormed and took over the facility and got down into the bunker(aren’t they something like half-a-mile below the surface).
It would be a little like having missillers on a submarine carry .38s in case of a RL version of the movie Under Siege.
You don’t have to read none of it, won’t bother me any. Freak freely!
Both the MCCC and DMCCC carried S&W .38 revolvers.
There were M16’s in the LCC utility closet.
Everyone was trained to use them.
The cite mentioned the procedure evolved in the days of the Atlas missile, when I guess there were a lot more people running around the complex, and a lot of classified documents the armed missileers were supposed to help guard. The military being the military, the procedure once started was probably very hard to stop.
This profile in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists from 2008 mentions the LCC crew laughing at the depiction from Wargames and that “the officers on duty wear no holstered sidearms.” (Page 19.)
Edit: Exactly what the fuck are two officers going to do with a full sized M-16 in a capsule what appears to be the size of an overgrown broom closet? The cite I’ve linked to mentions the .38 being worthless for hunting, the only purpose the old missileer could think of for the Minuteman crews continuing to have them issued in the early days of the program, and implying they’d nothing bigger down in the capsule. Certainly not a M-16.
This reminds me of some of my students, who seem convinced that they can get away with copy/paste on their assignments, because they’re sure that only THEY know about the vast power of google. The professors could not POSSIBLY be able to catch them!
It reminds me of skydiving quadriplegic girls.
That is…evocative.
And the next bit I’ll send in when Improv performers ask for suggestions from the audience. (It used to be “tap-dancing squirrels.”)
moonshot, when I was on detachment from 22 Regiment to the RAF, between the ages of 19 and 27 (months) I spent some time supporting your contemporaries in the 501st tactical missile wing (we deployed up to 108 pershing II missiles and 364 BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missiles, which I can now reveal because it is not classified).
I mention this for two reasons:
a) did you know derek?
and b) we had a special word, walt. Do you recognise yourself in people like this? If not, is that cause you are ashamed to look in the mirror in the morning?
Oops. Should have mentioned - I brought it up because it was the first google hit for “Google Search”.
I do not recommend trying to chew a Trident.
I knew a guy with the 501st TMMS. Jeff Hunter. 96 GLCMs at RAF Greenham Common IIRC.
Bah, how reliable is The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists?
Why use it when we have siloworld.net.
Yeah he was one of my best mates, did he ever tell you about Derek?
Gotta have something to dull the pain while you damned kids sit around all day sniffing your bath soaps and twiddling your Tweeters.
No. Who’s Derek?
My intelligence work was likely equally tedious, especially as some wall fell someplace a few months after I started. Long days of trying to appear busy and useful. Maybe once a year something would happen, and even then it was only a 1 in 4 chance that it happened during your shift. Never my shift.
I guess it could have been worse. I could have been a German linguist, whom all found new assignments washing missiles or aircraft.
You should ask him what the color of the boathouse is.
there is no fucking boathouse in fucking heroford!
What about Hereford? Is there one there?
I don’t like your attitude!