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Posted: 12/28/2011 7:34:34 AM EDT

I know they train on how and when to launch their missile, what training do they do for after they launch the missile? Stay in the LCC for 30 days or until their food/water/air run out? Do they evac to the surface and return to their base?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:35:20 AM EDT

[#1]

Profit?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:37:09 AM EDT

[#2]

Get coffee, I'd imagine.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:37:40 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
I know they train on how and when to launch their missile, what training do they do for after they launch the missile? Stay in the LCC for 30 days or until their food/water/air run out? Do they evac to the surface and return to their base?

Good question.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:38:37 AM EDT

[#4]

Hookers and blow

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:39:08 AM EDT

[#5]

Then its Miller time.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:39:32 AM EDT

[#6]

Panic Sex.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:39:38 AM EDT

[#7]

Cigars

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:39:44 AM EDT

[#8]

I believe that they have launch control over more than just ONE missile.

So they likely sit and wait for counter-strike or counter-counter-strike orders until all rounds are expended.

After that probably not much they can do.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:40:03 AM EDT

[#9]

Hot Chocolate with the tiny marshmellows, fuzzy slippers and DVD's of Dr Strangelove and On the Beach?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:40:14 AM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:40:18 AM EDT

[#11]

FURIOUS MASTURBATION

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:40:55 AM EDT

[#12]

They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:41:33 AM EDT

[#13]

I figured they would hang out and make lunch, but I like the panic sex idea!

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:41:53 AM EDT

[#14]

... some serious WoW with the guys over at the enemy silos?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:42:30 AM EDT

[#15]

I had wondered that too- I saw the old movie 'The Day After' and when the crew had launched it's missile- they got the hell outta Dodge ( to what avail I'm not certain).

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:42:34 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I know they train on how and when to launch their missile, what training do they do for after they launch the missile? Stay in the LCC for 30 days or until their food/water/air run out? Do they evac to the surface and return to the glowing remains of their base?

Good question.

FIFY
I'm thinking of a movie called On The Beach from 1959.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:42:35 AM EDT

[#17]

Live with it.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:42:49 AM EDT

[#18]

I imagine there are plenty of hot lesbians involved.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:43:20 AM EDT

[#19]

Seize women and escape back to their underground sanctuary to repopulate the earth.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:43:29 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Get coffee, I'd imagine.

More like a cigarette

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:44:13 AM EDT

[#21]

Don't ask don't tell

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:44:24 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Get coffee, I'd imagine.

More like a cigarette

Why not both? They go great together.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:44:37 AM EDT

[#23]

I spent a year at a European ground launched cruise missile base (nuke) during the cold war. The simple truth is that we didn't have a follow on mission simply because we wouldn't exist long enough to perform one. Our in-brief covered it by saying that our follow-on mission was to fall out on the enemy with extreme prejudice...no shit. LOL

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:45:33 AM EDT

[#24]

Their location is probably a designated target. But if they don't get their socks rocked off within half an hour of launching their own bird, they'll probably live.
The launch crews command not one, but several launch silos, if I'm not mistaken. (I could be.) Their job is done only when all the birds are launched. When that happens, then I guess that they're

probably free to leave the complex, drive to the nearest town that hasn't been nuked to powder, and get rip-roaring drunk, knowing that they did their part in fighting

a nuclear war costing millions of lives in just a few short minutes.
I don't know what the career advancement is for a missile crew that ran out of missiles and survived the aftermath. But it might involve psychotherapy for an extended period of time.
Nuke crews bear the heaviest burden of responsibility of ANY military members. All it takes is two people to turn two keys after authenticating their orders and launch codes, and at

that point, those two turned keys launch many megatons of canned sunshine that will most certainly put an end to the lives of a great many fellow human beings.

It takes a special kind of person to be dedicated to that job when he knows what the consequences will be should he ever actually complete that task.
CJ

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:45:42 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:47:03 AM EDT

[#26]

Duck and cover.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:49:24 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

I think they have really, really big stripper clips.

Jane

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:50:30 AM EDT

[#28]

What makes you think they control only one ICBM?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:50:40 AM EDT

[#29]

Watch the movie Damnation Alley, it will explain eveything.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:52:14 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

I think they have really, really big stripper clips.

Jane

What no mag fed ones??

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:53:15 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

I think they have really, really big stripper clips.

Jane

Strippers??? I'm in... so long as they're women!!!
-SS

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:54:46 AM EDT

[#32]

Find suitable mine shafts?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:55:05 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:

They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.

They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.

Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

I think they have really, really big stripper clips.

Jane

lol

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:55:07 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

You mean the two man crew doesn't go out and grab on of the spare missles piled up under a tarp by the silo?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:55:16 AM EDT

[#35]

They use a big swab to clean the silo.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:55:46 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.
They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.
Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

I think they have really, really big stripper clips.

Jane

What no mag fed ones??

You could be right. We'll have to wait for LimaXray to show up and explain the process.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:55:56 AM EDT

[#37]

Why do you think anyone cares what happens to the ICBM crews after they launch their missiles?

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:57:04 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:

They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.

They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.

Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

Seriously.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:57:31 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:

They wait for the base to bring them a re-load and once it's in place they will wait for orders to fire it.

They'll continue to do that as long as the missles hold out and they're able to continue to strike the enemy.

When you're in combat and your weapon is empty, you re-load.

Same thing with the missile crews.

You have to be joking.

+1 - it's not like reloading a clip with more bullets.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:57:57 AM EDT

[#40]

IIRC History did a section on this.

Food and water for 2 days then crawl out of a sand filled tunnel, bust your way through the parking lot and hoof it ~100 miles to the RP..

The guy telling the story did so in a "ya sure we will!" tone.

Hookers and blow...

And yet once again the age old problem. In a secure underground bunker, do NOT store live hookers with you blow.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:58:54 AM EDT

[#41]

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Posted: 12/28/2011 7:59:25 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Duck and cover.

suprise....... Buttsecks

Posted: 12/28/2011 8:00:07 AM EDT

[#43]

They probably have some sort of task for them. The military has always had a policy of making sure our troops never have any down time.

Posted: 12/28/2011 8:00:24 AM EDT

[#44]

xbox2 MW3

Posted: 12/28/2011 8:01:51 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

And yet once again the age old problem. In a secure underground bunker, do NOT store live hookers with you blow.

LOL

Posted: 12/28/2011 8:03:19 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
All it takes is two people to turn two keys after authenticating their orders and launch codes, and at that point, those two turned keys launch many megatons of canned sunshine that will most certainly put an end to the lives of a great many fellow human beings.

I'm sure Limaxray will be along shortly to point out the many numerous ways in which you are incorrect. That is to say, the ways that he can point out, that are not secret squirrel.