341st Missile Wing Missile Procedures Trainer

[@Bbendfender]

Missile duty was fun back in the 70's.

[@darrenfromaustraliaupside-9079]

Once a missileer launches their ICBM'S certain death awaits within minutes as all silos are targets for enemy ICBM'S.

[@oscarfiblas2096]

No si antes de llegar los misiles enemigos son interceptados...

[@Pulsatyr]

Missileer is a cool job and only recently have they gotten the respect they deserve in the Air Force. USAF is too hardware centric and has too many factions between fighters, bombers, missiles recon, etc. If you ask a vet what he was in the military you'll get an answer like, "I flew F-15s." Ask a Marine and he will proudly say, "I am a Marine!" Whether he was infantry, a pilot, drove a truck, was in artillery or ran a computer, he's a Marine - and no past tense. USAF needs that kind of esprit de corps.

[@77konky]

Ask a missileer about his service he will proudly say “I was in the chair force.”

[@fredpearson5204]

@@77konky, I was a missileer for 24-years and have literally never heard another missile officer say that.

[@herkload]

Much respect to you guys 🇺🇸🤙

[@wcatholic1]

In the Army its Combat Arms and everyone else.

[@gates531]

Cpt Lakes voice reminds me a little of Elizabeth Holmes.

[@Levi-qu8yl]

I wanna become an officer so bad but it seems like a hard career path.

[@that_llama_in_a_tuxedo4584]

Levi you have to go to college to be a officer. But the government will pay for college in exchange for duty time. Downside is that right now officers have like a 20 year required commitment.

[@jakebemis364]

@@that_llama_in_a_tuxedo4584 The government doesn't necessarily pay for your college. Also the maximum service commitment in the Air Force is 10 years, and this is for pilots. Most officers incur a 4 year active duty requirement, definitely not 20.

[@Bbendfender]

Study hard and you can do it. Also, don't goof off.

[@fredpearson5204]

@@that_llama_in_a_tuxedo4584, true, the first requirement to become an officer is a college undergraduate , 4-year degree, but there is no program that exists for the average person to have the government pay for this. Having said that, you can enlist in the Air Force (only requires a high school diploma) and while on active duty you can apply for tuition assistance to complete a degree while working. As for the "20-year commitment" for officers, there is no 20-year commitment for officers. If you want to RETIRE with a pension, then you have to stay in for 20 years, but the only required commitment for most officers is 4 years (sometimes slightly more for pilots).

[@pixelgamer2579]

Lol both of these officers are on the Air Force recruiting site. The dude is for Nuclear and the chick is for ISR, which is totally unrelated oddly enough.

[@aneng64]

HE CAN'T EVEN SAY "NUCLEAR" !!!! 00:37

[@thevansmack]

Aaaaawwwwww shit, son......look at all that hot missile silo poon tang.......I've got a missile of my own to launch.

[@az_pit_viper4270]

Brooke Lake, will you marry me? 😍😍😍😍

[@four7tw3nty70]

are u silly or something?

[@paulanderson7796]

ritualistic behaviour.

[@brandonbruce-lund2524]

I DID NOT NEED UR NUKES USA.

[@tommatt2ski]

Well that is because you are on the receiving end of those missile warheads, so sorry Comrade Putler, these missiles are not going anywhere for the likes of you!

[@jtoad99]

Are we supposed to be at ease with a 20 something hillbilly girl and a guy who looks like he just got out of high school at the controls controls of nuclear missiles? God save us!

[@eugeniovincenzo1621]

They are officers...more than you will ever be...also it means they have a college education...

[@kcgunesq]

@@eugeniovincenzo1621 They are functionally, highly capable robots. Unfortunately, that is a big part of the morale problem. They won't ever be called on to exercise judgment, demonstrate anything more than the ability to perform what is essentially, a very simple dance move and they day they have to to their job, everyone they know is minutes from death. But, all that said, they arguably have the most important job in the US and I'm very grateful that we have them guarding us as we sleep. keep in mind that no one person, nor any one team can launch missiles, even if they have the codes.

[@kcgunesq]

@@justdad53 It wasn't intended as an insult. I made it clear it is a really important job. But there is virtually no room for interpretation or judgment. The job is at its core, "if x, then y". The only reason for this job is because at present, it is less risky to have a sentient being execute the command than to trust it to a computer. So to make it perfectly clear, it is a very important job done by highly trained people. And I sleep better because of them. That does not, however, make it an interesting job or one that requires much more than the ability to memorize a few items and follow a check list. Which is basically what every robot does.

[@fredpearson5204]

@@kcgunesq, spoken by a person with ZERO experience or actual knowledge about what an Air Force missile officer does. Congrats for being an opinionated asshole.

[@fredpearson5204]

BTW, that "hillbilly girl" is a captain with at least 4 years experience in the Air Force, which means she has a bachelor's degree and probably has a master's degree as well. How about you, champ? Other than being really good at video games in your mommy's basement, what are your credentials?

[@lasaintumku4518]

Wow pretty girl

[@manueljimenez112]

Why, on God's green earth, would someone join the Air Force to sit in a hole in the ground with little to do. It looks profoundly mind numbing. "Johnson, you're going to fly F-15s. Roberts! You are off to fly B-2's. Dawson. You got F-16s. McFly, you're a Missileer."

[@jamesbarnard9710]

Don't know what it's like today, but back in the 1960's they needed missileers more than they needed pilots. At least I had a choice between sitting in the capsule or driving all over central Montana in a blue truck, keeping the green Strategic Alert light on the launch panels on by keeping the missiles ready to launch. It is said, however, that the AF is short 2,000 pilots.

[@jameshalleluyah8133]

I would love that job, chill out most of the time reading books in the peace and quiet. To top it off you got front row seats to the end of the world if the shit goes down, fantastic.

[@adamschaeffer4057]

When the war is over you're going to be in the bar with your buddies and the infantry guy is going to say, I got three confirmed kills. The artillery guy is going to say hey I got 20 confirmed kills. The pilot will sit there and brag and say I dropped a JDAM and killed a 100 guys a once. They all turn to you and ask... how many you get buddy? "Oh, about 35,000,000 give or take, depending on wind direction and fallout pattern..."

[@FuckTheState]

Why? Very simple: cuz those missiles are worth more than those planes will ever be. Nuclear war is the future, not the war part at least because nobody wants to start a war everyone will inevitably loose. Also, you have no saying on what you wanna do when you join. You can’t just pick something. You join knowing you might end up there.

[@kcgunesq]

@@jameshalleluyah8133 Except they get assigned mind numbing, repetitive tasks and are expected to be nothing short than constantly perfect. By all accounts, it really is a horrible job, as important as it is.