300 People Defending 300 million, A tour of Fort Greely's missile defense facility.

FORT GREELY, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaskans are used to road trips, and for this one, we're starting in Fairbanks: Drive past the candy canes near the Santa Claus House in North Pole, keep going down the Richardson Highway beyond the jets just inside the gate at Eielson Air Force Base, then follow the winding road past Salcha, and when you make it to giant metal sculptures of mosquitoes at Delta, you'll almost be at Fort Greely.
It's here, in the shadows of the mountains, that about 300 people are tasked with defending the country against an intercontinental ballistic missile attack.
"This has always been and continues to be a no fail mission," said Col. Kevin Kick, the commander of the 100th Missile Defense Brigade.
Channel 2 was invited to Fort Greely along with a group of other reporters and photographers to see how the teams here would protect the country from an attack.
One of 10 ground-based midcourse defense system teams practiced a drill where they'd stop an attack on Los Angeles. The drill was successful.
The teams work 12 hour days, 4 days a week.
"You say pressure, for us that responsibility is what drives us," Capt. Joseph Radke of Echo team said, "it's really what allows us to put in the time that we do up here."
There are three fields here with missiles that could be launched during an ICBM attack with a fourth coming on line soon.
Security here is extremely tight. Military police patrol constantly. The weather conditions can be extreme with high winds and temperatures that plunge to 20 degrees below zero.
"Our mission is essential to the American people and we are proud to be the 300 defending the 300 million," Kick said.

[@god_dios]

interceptor movie brought me here. need more info on sbx1 too

[@deaustin4018]

when I was assigned to Ft. Wainwright, they said I was lucky not to have gotten Greely out in the middle of nowhere with much more extreme cold. Now years later, I'm thinking I would like to have seen it at least once.

[@michaelbauers8800]

Nice to see a video on this.

[@earthisfat6184]

We should be lined with these.. Not 2 bases with a total of 44.. We should have like 40 bases on each coast with 100 fields each

[@beezelsub]

If this were real, yes.

[@earthisfat6184]

@@beezelsub if it were real? 😂

[@nealcole420]

Finally some new knowledge

[@rider265]

There are ZERO towns in Alaska called "Delta." However, during my 21-months at Ft Greely, I could slip out to Delta Junction for a steak.

[@NimaEUUS]

From the U.S. Army site: "The GBI consists of a 3-stage solid rocket boost vehicle which can place it's payload of an Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle outside the earth's atmosphere. In order to do this the missile must reach an escape velocity of more than 6.9 miles per second. This hypersonic speed is several times what a 7.62mm bullet travels leaving the muzzle of a gun. To put it another way, it reaches a speed of approximately Mach 33." Russia's hypersonics are clearly small to America haha

[@MissilemanIII]

We don't have any missile defense to speak of.

[@edsr164]

I read that these missiles were rushed into deployment and they have several mechanical problems and other technical glitches.

[@Knightfire66]

"threat was successfully intercepted" didnt u hear that? maybe it was simulation xD

[@chechnya]

Source? Trust me bro

[@robertm346]

Hi Russia!

[@r1tual226]

It’s pretty clear that we don’t have enough of these missiles deployed, with a high enough success rate to give us greater then 5% chance of blocking an enemy salvo of icbm”s. If forward operating bases in Iraq don”t have them and Iran can use conventional icbm”s, it’s clear that our technology has not kept pace. Extremely hard I imagine to shoot down a Payload launched by an icbm, compounded by electronic jamming and other obfuscation techniques like MIRVS with dummy warheads. We need to focus on having enough icbm”s of our own to attack every conceivable location that an enemy may have their own weapon bunkers, silos, bases, etc. right next to Greeley we should have icbm missile battery’s that number in the thousands at LEAST.

[@bastogne1019]

You have no idea of what we can dispense.

[@YUSKHAN]

Tu160s bombers would turn this place into glass

[@neoconwarhawk1001]

It will never reach

[@civmike]

This guy, lol your lil Russian bird wouldn’t get close.

[@qqube4762]

How sure are you comrade? Your bombers wouldn't get far. Hate to see a grown man cry.

[@Jermo7899]

I wouldn’t count on it. An f22 would be on it before they even knew it. Stop talking ish. Makes you look stupid

[@scriptorium-in-candelight]

TALKING --is like an attack. Their talking someone else into pressure point of "defeat" regardless if that is true or really false. A form of self interest, to talk someone else into your form of self interest.....scary