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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:29:01 AM EDT
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Everybody's gotta die man.
Missile silos are bad ass. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:29:38 AM EDT
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I've always wondered if Davis Montham was a target somewhere on some Russkie nuke list.
If so, I'm proper fucked if the shizzle hits the fizzle. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:30:03 AM EDT
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Everybody's gotta die man. Missile silos are bad ass. Be a heck of a show I guess. The launch and then thirty minutes later. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:33:06 AM EDT
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Be a heck of a show I guess. The launch and then thirty minutes later. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Everybody's gotta die man. Missile silos are bad ass. Be a heck of a show I guess. The launch and then thirty minutes later. They're launching for a reason. You won't have to wait 30 minutes. 
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:35:00 AM EDT
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Quick death, no radiation sickness.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:35:04 AM EDT
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They're launching for a reason. You won't have to wait 30 minutes.
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Everybody's gotta die man. Missile silos are bad ass. Be a heck of a show I guess. The launch and then thirty minutes later. They're launching for a reason. You won't have to wait 30 minutes.
I just imagine some prepper wanting to find a sweet doomsday bug out location in a nice conservative tax friendly state like Wyoming, then doh! Ah shit I live next to a primary target. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:35:59 AM EDT
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I'm betting it wouldn't be a bad place to live.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:37:51 AM EDT
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I figure there are only bad places and worse places during a nuclear exchange.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:38:01 AM EDT
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Not much to them................That you can see, that is.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:38:33 AM EDT
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Think of all the money you would save as you wouldn't need a fallout shelter or a bunch of shtf preps
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:39:30 AM EDT
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Not much to them................That you can see, that is. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=33490 Yep that's them. I grew up in Missouri back when Whiteman had them. Saw silos on the side of the road there too. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:46:15 AM EDT
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I made an offer on a place just N of CYS, it was accepted, and I was all ready to buy. It was a couple hundred yards from a silo. That was right when the markets froze up, and I crawfished out of the deal.
I would buy it again tomorrow, if it was within two hours drive time of my job. 40 Acres with a manufactured home and a giant steel building. $168,000 Damn.  I may never have the chance again. Being ground Zero, is a small price to pay for having a Range in your back yard.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:52:26 AM EDT
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Was driving on I-85 in Wyoming last week and passed about 4 Minuteman silos. Some of them had homes within a stones throw away. Even one right outside of a town. I'm from the 80s so I remember watching The Day After and that shit still scares me. So would anyone willingly live beside one because odds are it'll never be used? Or would you not, knowing somewhere in Russia an SS-18 warhead has your homes coordinates dialed in? I guess it's not much different than living in Norfolk or Sedalia. Just curious. One way of looking at it is that the bad guys won't get close to the site without being deaded, and if TSHTF better to be dead than dying in a city. I'd probably not buy property next to one because it'd hurt resale but I'm weird like that. 
Cold War world was different from today. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:57:38 AM EDT
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Yep that's them. I grew up in Missouri back when Whiteman had them. Saw silos on the side of the road there too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not much to them................That you can see, that is. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=33490 Yep that's them. I grew up in Missouri back when Whiteman had them. Saw silos on the side of the road there too. That one is T-43 just outside of Valier MT. Inactive for quite some time. I drive by it dozens of times per year. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:59:03 AM EDT
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That one is T-43 just outside of Valier MT. Inactive for quite some time. I drive by it dozens of times per year. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not much to them................That you can see, that is. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=33490 Yep that's them. I grew up in Missouri back when Whiteman had them. Saw silos on the side of the road there too. That one is T-43 just outside of Valier MT. Inactive for quite some time. I drive by it dozens of times per year. I only caught one silo identifier- it was either B-8 or B-9, can't remember. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 12:59:57 AM EDT
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FE Warren is in the biggest city in the state. There are a lot of people taking that chance.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:00:56 AM EDT
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Only the USSR had enough missiles for a proper counterforce strike. China's strategic nuclear deterrent is much smaller and is undoubtedly targeted on economic and population centers.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:06:07 AM EDT
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I only caught one silo identifier- it was either B-8 or B-9, can't remember. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not much to them................That you can see, that is. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=33490 Yep that's them. I grew up in Missouri back when Whiteman had them. Saw silos on the side of the road there too. That one is T-43 just outside of Valier MT. Inactive for quite some time. I drive by it dozens of times per year. I only caught one silo identifier- it was either B-8 or B-9, can't remember. Well, pick'em out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Missile_Wing_LGM-30_Minuteman_Missile_Launch_Sites |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:07:12 AM EDT
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 From NoDak |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:11:41 AM EDT
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Let's hope we never have the chance to find out.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:11:56 AM EDT
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Look at it this way, If it goes active, You will be the first civilian to know it. Plus your end will be quick and painless.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:16:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I made an offer on a place just N of CYS, it was accepted, and I was all ready to buy. It was a couple hundred yards from a silo. That was right when the markets froze up, and I crawfished out of the deal. I would buy it again tomorrow, if it was within two hours drive time of my job. 40 Acres with a manufactured home and a giant steel building. $168,000 Damn. I may never have the chance again. Being ground Zero, is a small price to pay for having a Range in your back yard.We used to get a visit from Missile Cops when we would shoot in the pit about a 100 yards from a Silo This place was 2 miles from where I grew up  |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:20:08 AM EDT
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Those 319th guys had it easy...nice short drive out to the MAF. I was assigned to I-01 for a year, H-01 for a year, and was NCOIC at G-01 for three years.
Missile Alert Facility Manager is a little known, good, Special Duty assignment. Especially if you are not wanting to be putting up with day to day crap on main base. We usually worked 3 on, 5 off, and by off I mean off grow a beard for 5 days off. Saved up a crap load of leave because I never needed to take any. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:35:46 AM EDT
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Wonder how often you'd wake up at night after hearing a sound and thinking was that a whooshing sound I just heard.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 1:42:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'm familiar with them also. Probably driven by that very one. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 2:14:01 AM EDT
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You cats all have a short memory...
Remember the NIKE sites of the 50's ? When we were using the AJAX, they were ALL over the place. I grew up in Muskego, WI. We had 2 ourselves. One is now a Tool and Die shop. The other is an upscale subdivision. When the Hercules came on the scene, it's greater range caused many to close. Site 64 closed in 1964. The cable that synchronized the 2 sites was pulled out of Little Muskego Lake in 1978. We loved riding our dirt bikes up on the Racine hill. ( the location of site 64) Until some killjoy placed end loader buckets full of dirt on top of the launcher doors. 
No more exploration 
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Posted: 6/7/2015 2:18:43 AM EDT
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You cats all have a short memory... Remember the NIKE sites of the 50's ? When we were using the AJAX, they were ALL over the place. I grew up in Muskego, WI. We had 2 ourselves. One is now a Tool and Die shop. The other is an upscale subdivision. When the Hercules came on the scene, it's greater range caused many to close. Site 64 closed in 1964. The cable that synchronized the 2 sites was pulled out of Little Muskego Lake in 1978. We loved riding our dirt bikes up on the Racine hill. ( the location of site 64) Until some killjoy placed end loader buckets full of dirt on top of the launcher doors.
No more exploration
 . Yeah, it's not so much a question of Memory. The majority of us weren't even born in 1964.
The Nike was an AA missile. AJAX wasn't a nuke. Hercules did have a Nuke warhead, but not at all similar to an ICBM. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 2:49:29 AM EDT
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There are quite a few silos in CO
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Posted: 6/7/2015 2:56:51 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:04:27 AM EDT
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Well, the one guy can say he survived a nuclear missile going off only feet away from him.
What about the ones in Central America? |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:11:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryNW Of Minot if I remember. Aviator |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:14:57 AM EDT
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Let's hope we never have the chance to find out. This. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:19:14 AM EDT
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Believe they made a movie of the week about that missile explosion back in the 80's.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:20:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamascus? ETA: Yes, Danasacus. Blame the dead airman.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:23:46 AM EDT
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Government probably constructed those houses for some outragious fee to help camouflage the silos.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:41:46 AM EDT
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Was driving on I-85 in Wyoming last week and passed about 4 Minuteman silos. Some of them had homes within a stones throw away. Even one right outside of a town. I'm from the 80s so I remember watching The Day After and that shit still scares me. So would anyone willingly live beside one because odds are it'll never be used? Or would you not, knowing somewhere in Russia an SS-18 warhead has your homes coordinates dialed in? I guess it's not much different than living in Norfolk or Sedalia. Just curious. What's in Sedalia? |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 3:49:37 AM EDT
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Government probably constructed those houses for some outragious fee to help camouflage the silos. Prepare for battlestations 
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Posted: 6/7/2015 5:08:37 AM EDT
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I'm betting it wouldn't be a bad place to live. And they're betting it wouldn't be a bad place to die...
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Posted: 6/7/2015 5:31:10 AM EDT
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Pretty quiet neighbors most of the time. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 5:39:35 AM EDT
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Shoot, every morning back in the late 80's, I'd drive past (potentially, but of course I'm not "sure") dozens of SLBMs, climb the brow to the Holland and work between 30 or so MIRVed Tridents nestled in boomers tied up along side of us. When I'd head down to the boats, I'd often walk through Sherwood Forrest, rows of big vertical pale green tubes... Now that's firepower! I don't know, do you think Naval Weapons Station Charleston was on anyone's target list???
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Posted: 6/7/2015 5:43:30 AM EDT
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Quoted: Was driving on I-85 in Wyoming last week and passed about 4 Minuteman silos. Some of them had homes within a stones throw away. Even one right outside of a town. I'm from the 80s so I remember watching The Day After and that shit still scares me. So would anyone willingly live beside one because odds are it'll never be used? Or would you not, knowing somewhere in Russia an SS-18 warhead has your homes coordinates dialed in? I guess it's not much different than living in Norfolk or Sedalia. Just curious. The government seems to want to defend us, because we're so close to Russia and now China. |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 6:00:02 AM EDT
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Believe they made a movie of the week about that missile explosion back in the 80's. Disaster at Silo 7 I have it on VHS somewhere |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 6:05:05 AM EDT
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I used to live 5 miles from STRATCOM (formerly SAC HQ). Could see the building from my house. If the balloon went up, it was probably time to sit on the deck and crack open a cold beer.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 6:39:27 AM EDT
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If it came to nuclear war, I'd rather die in an instant ifrom the blast than slowly from radiation poisoning. But then most my life I have been living in a primary strike zone.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 6:45:20 AM EDT
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Grew up at VAFB in the '60's. Missiles going off every other week, night and day. Very cool for a kid.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 6:46:19 AM EDT
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if you have google earth installed here is the link to the KML file of all the 90th Missle wing minuteman missle sites
holy crap that's a lot of nukes. to think they used to have 3 warheads on each of em. http://tools.wmflabs.org/kmlexport?article=90th_Missile_Wing_LGM-30_Minuteman_Missile_Launch_Sites |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 7:25:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryNW Of Minot if I remember. Aviator you are correct Sir |
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Posted: 6/7/2015 7:29:04 AM EDT
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I grew up in eastern WY and western NE surrounded by missile fields. Had several silos within a few miles of my house. I never worried too much about it, honestly. If the SHTF I'd rather be at ground zero than 300 miles downwind anyway.
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Posted: 6/7/2015 7:40:51 AM EDT
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I have some old Civil Defense literature somewhere. In southern Ohio, it did not matter where you were if the Soviets attacked. The circles all
overlapped many times...
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Posted: 6/7/2015 7:40:58 AM EDT
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I live in central CT
I am surrounded on all sides by Pratt and Whitney and Sikorski and their various subcontractors 30 or so miles to the southeast is Electric Boat , Groten Sub base and the Coast Guard Academy I may not be in the X-ring but if the big one cooks off there will be plenty of crap. Find me a nice deal on a piece of property out in the sticks and I could care less how near it is to a silo |
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