Minuteman III Missile Site - Virtual Tour

I'll take you on a virtual tour of a Minuteman III Missile site.

[@davidkeller9510]

Nice Video. I was station at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota 1966-1970. I was on a three man team Target and Aliment later call Combat Targeting. Sac 44th Missile Maintenance . I ran a computer that was in the back of a 5 ton truck that was huge. I remember being out in 50 below zero working. One thing about the Air Force they made good winter clothes. Loved my parka. Thanks for the memories.

[@Rocketman88002]

@davidkeller9510, I've read a little about the Combat Targeting Team and procedures in the Air Force Missile Association Newsletter but there are so many questions still. Were the missiles you worked on the Minuteman 1A's, 1B's? I would like to read a complete procedure of everything done topside and below to align the missile. How did the collimator get azimuth data to the missile guidance package? Thanks for your service to our country!

[@JCMills55]

I was a 316x0 working in the FMT shop at Ellsworth, 74 - 77. The job was tough, especially in winter but it was the most important job I have ever had. I am proud that I was trusted to do it.

[@djorges]

I feel the same way!!

[@ignaciomenendez8672]

I was a Ground Telemetry Station Operator and technician at Vandenberg AFB. Participated in many test firings of MMI & MMII. MMIII was just begging testing and deployments, and that happened after I left the Air Force. It was one of the most interesting jobs that I ever held in my life.

[@chuckwilliams6294]

Cool job indeed. My father is a retired O-6 D.C.M. and former enlistedB-25 crew chief, who had a 2nd career working in the Rivet Mile program for TRW Aerospace. We have a few "hold down nuts" from various test launches that he attended at Vandenberg. They make great book ends, due to their mass. 🤣

[@XAirForce]

321st, Grand Forks, ND from 86-88 as Missile Radio 30474. I worked on HF, UHF, SLFCS at the LCFs and Command Post.

[@wxmyjnsn]

I was a maintainer at Whiteman AFB in Missouri in the early 90s I was part of the 351st FMMS. First on PMT then as part of FMT. Watching this brought back a lot of memories. Thank you!

[@gustavoaguilar3394]

What is the Minuteman Silo Security System Designation?

[@wxmyjnsn]

@@gustavoaguilar3394 I don't understand the question. On the site there are sensors for movement that would trigger an alert at the Launch Control Facility or LCF. Then security police in an armored car would go out there and check it out.

[@jeffdavis7912]

I was a crew chief at the Whiteman AF base in Missouri back in the 80’s for the Minuteman.

[@roypruysvdhoeven1855]

VERY RESPONSIBLE JOB !

[@DrakoWarkan]

When were you at Whiteman?

[@jeffdavis7912]

@@DrakoWarkan 1980- 83

[@studhammer]

Fellow EMTer here, at FE Warren and I worked on the Peacekeeper weapon system, currently Rivet Mile. Good video for explaining things to people unfamiliar with the weapon system.

[@CO84trucker]

I knew a guy who had a factory / machine shop job in California back in his younger days. He was producing some sliding tracks for "industrial" doors. He later learned after leaving this job that they were producing parts for Minuteman silo blast doors!

[@andrewmiller3834]

First of all: Thank you for your service. One of the unsung heroes of the cold war, just like me. I was stationed in Cheyenne at F E Warren AFB back in 86-87. I was only Administration. I was placed in several units while there and when I was with the supply squadron's fuels branch (fuels for the Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron helicopters, helicopters because the base has no active runway) I was invited to assist with the annual static ground testing of the fuel tanks at all ten LCF's. This means riding in a UH1H (Huey) all frigging day! Sounds like fun, right? Not exactly. The first couple hours were awesome but it got old real fast. When inside the main building at each sight I was constantly imagining what all goes on under my feet. I also wondered of the incredible power so close at hand. One of the most important things that happened while in Cheyenne was the installation and acceptance by SAC from Boeing for the Peacekeeper weapons system. I had no idea that systems like that could be phased out but three years ago when I moved back to Cheyenne as a civilian I found that the Peacekeepers had all been removed. There's still plenty of stuff out there to take it's place I know. Thank you for a great video! Oh yeah, the security guys can't go into the silo? Now that's funny! Sure they keep eyes out topside but still, they must've been a little butt hurt.

[@schmeat2717]

Did you get to see the Stargate??

[@bagoistvan3182]

Great video. Thank you for your service Sir !

[@chuckwilliams6294]

Retired Sr. F.M. who worked at Malmstrom and retired at Warren in 1994. My father was a (former enlisted) Wing D.C.M. who retired at Warren in 1984. As a F.M., I did daily inspections on all topside equipment at the L.C.F., as well as the equipment in the tunnel junction, clean AC room, and "other" areas. I was able to save more than a few dispatches to the field for maintenance teams, by identifying and correcting maintenance issues on motor generators, the brine chiller, tripped CB's in the Comm Room, etc. after coordinating with the MCC and maintenance personnel back at "Support Fort". I always took good care of any Maintenance Crews who hit their time line and had to "RON", because I knew my own father had spent literally over 31 years maintaining multiple generations of USAF Fixed Wing Aircraft (was a B-25 Crew Chief), Helicopters, and the Titan and Minuteman Missile systems. He went on to have a second career managing the "Rivit Mile" Missle Site refurbishment program for T.R.W. Aerospace. My son is a USAF Aircraft Maintenance Officer and former enlisted supply troop, with multiple tours in the "Sand Patch". Thank you for helping to maintain a vital Weapons System, that (in spite of pervasive ignorance on the part of most civilians) in all likelihood, kept our Nation safe during the so called "Cold War" years. 👍

[@michaeldoonan1429]

I always appreciated the LCF FMs. Tough job with some long hours.

[@chuckwilliams6294]

@@michaeldoonan1429 I loved it. Family had a cabin and property near Wolf Creek, where I spent roughly half of my career at Malmstrom, so it was a dream job for anyone that loved to hunt and wish. Long hours, but LOTS of contiguous days off back in the early 80's. 😎

[@MyVideosDon]

This brings back a lot of memories. I was at A5 the one in the foothills near Monarch. my first job out of tech school in Minnesota. A5 was part of the first missile site to be built. It was a Minuteman 1. One day back in 1962 the missile was in the hole without the warhead when we got a call for all Boeing personnel to leave the site. On the way back to Great Falls we saw the truck which carries the warhead go out. It was the start of the Cuban missile crisis. Note the support building was not built yet at this site. I know all about the access procedures and the forever slow Plug. Do you remember the Polaris tube? The rest of my time at Bowing was going from site to site with another crew doing the same and run tests and balancing the line between missile lunch siloes. all over the three bases Malmstrom, Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Ellsworth AFB South Dakota. just about every missile site some before the Air Force takes over and some after. without the Security Forces with us. We were given the codes to open the hatches and then to codes to lock up after we left. I'm now 82

[@robertbonser2724]

Thanks f or this Duane. I was at Malmstrom from 1976 - 1979 as part of a Combat Targeting Team. Ended up being an instructor before I left. I recently went through some of my old things and found that I still have my training manuals from Chanute. This was fun!!

[@darrellwebber3982]

Thanks for the video, looking forward to more. I was on the other side of SAC, 97 Bomb Wing, 340 Bomb Squadron, Blytheville AR. I was a gunner on a B-52G from 1981 -1985. Was always interested in what went on in missiles. My father-in-law was a launch officer in Little Rock and was there during their accident. Regards

[@bobclift101]

I was a Security Policeman in the 564th SMS (papa through Tango) 1972 and 73 and worked mostly at Tango which was the squadron’s command post. Then Europe, then back to the 341st (76-79) where I worked in the 12th SMS. I can’t even count the number of responses to security alarms at LFs I responded to from the LCF. But what beautiful country! Both the 564th and the 12th were west of I-15 closer to the east range of the Rockies. Later, I spent 2 years at Minot AFB in central North Dakota, much of it in the missile field. Unfortunately, not beautiful at all! Prairie dogs were our nemesis! We’d carry a garden hose with sand bags. One end of the hose went in our exhaust pipe and the other under the launcher closure door with the sandbags closing the gap between the door and be the concrete. Waiting long enough, we’d gas quite a few prairie dogs and prevent a return in sub-zero weather through snow drifts. Amazing what the Air Force trusted 18 and 19 year old airmen to do with little supervision. Suggest you recollect the A circuit as you update your video. Unless an SP opened that, there was no access to the B circuit.

[@mikeshelley4862]

I spent 3 1/2 years at Grand Forks from 1975-1979. I was part of the EMT (Electro-Mechanical Team) branch and then TTB (Team Training Branch). We all went through some, never get warm again, weather. I enjoyed my time there. Everything was wonderful -- except the cold!

[@theusualsuspect6298]

Hi Duane, I was at Malmstrom in TTB as the SSMT Trainer from 82-84. Nice to see some smut guys still around.

[@f.hababorbitz]

I grew up in Grand Forks, ND. My dad moved jobs in 1955 from Sioux City IA (which had a SAC base for RADAR). He managed the civilian side of Core of Engineer operations at the GFAFB, from when it was a farm field till he retired in 1980. There was 150 Minuteman flights build around that base, but because the soil was so corrosive. They decommissioned all of these. As well the base had all of its nuclear bombs removed, and really has no function at this point. The B52 , KC135 tankers, and the B1 are all gone. It's just pork that keeps that base going, as it has no mission. My dad got me a nepotism job in the summer of 1974 working for Boeing, as an Assembly and Check (ACO) out Equipment store lacki.This project was the missile silo upgrade program to harden the silo from near hits. This also converted the missile from single bomb to 3 MIRV weapons. Also installed was a turntable so the missile could have its trajectory changed before launch, as this was predetermined while still in the hole. Because of the secrecy of all this, I never got to take a tour of the training facility they had on the base for these silos. Thanks for the video. And thank you for your service.

[@jhfdb3]

I also was stationed at FEWAFB. I was the first group of senior airmen the USAF had. It was disappointing not to go to buck sergeant from A1C, but that was the seventies. I had some great times in Cheyenne. I still have a lot of friends who stayed there after their service.

[@christopherhennings6615]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@michaeldoonan1429]

Nice to see how the other half lived. I was a Crew Bear, 91SMW, 741 SMS, MAFB, 1978-1982.

[@JamesBrown-ux9ds]

I think buing a 3d-printer, combining new tech with old memory and Info was just a great Idea! Wish you success with the printing and the whole project, and a great pleasure to watch this film, thank you very much!

[@markwaller2889]

I worked in the 319th MMS at Grand Forks from 75-78. I never did see a LCF or a LF. Interesting. I'm surprised that you can post this information since there are still Minuteman III missles deployed in the field.

[@Hidden_Destinations]

Great video! Thank you!

[@roypruysvdhoeven1855]

VERY INTERESTING TOUR ! THANKS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION !

[@DrakoWarkan]

Hello, I was EMT at 351st SMW at Whiteman AFB from 1978 to 1986, this video brings back a lot of memories.

[@markclark1654]

What a great video! I’m very impressed, it was extremely informative and nicely presented. I was a deputy flight commander, crew commander, codes instructor and chief of code handler training at Grand Forks for 4 frozen years, so I felt your pain! Deuce was a great system, sorry to see it go. Thanks for sharing!

[@Tamburello_1994]

342nd MSS 86-88 checking in! Golf 01 (12th SMS) and Tango-0 (564th SMS) were my primary flight areas. India (especially I-05) were from hell.

[@davidmohr4606]

341st was still a SMW Strategic Missile Wing, not Missile Wing. SAC still existed. Guards = Security Police. Soft support bldg for 10th, 12th & 490th were near the surface. 564th were a capsule for support equipment at about 60' below surface.

[@gozorak]

I was PMT 90th FMMS at FE Warren AFB back in the late late 80's. We had like 150 Minuteman III and 50 MX(Peacekeeper) online if I remember correctly. Random memories and thoughts here. It was always the responsibility of the "new guy" to hand crank open the B Plug Hatch door. It was also the job of the "new guy" to lower, by rope, all of the PMT equipment and supplies down the length of the B Plug access shaft at the start and then to raise that equipment and those supplies, by rope, back up topside when our duties were done on site. No one ever wore the safety harness while doing so because no one wanted to look soft(especially if you were the "new guy") We did have gals on our teams but of course they never had to do the cranking or the lowering and lifting because... I still recall the feeling of jelly legs and jelly arms struggling to pull up the last bit of equipment fearing my collapse and fall down the access shaft and how much it would hurt(multiple compound fractures and probably death for sure) Anyone else remember the experience of having to lower The Cage(small 2 man lift with a powered winch and an always sketchy looking cable that was supposed to support the weight of the cage) down the access shaft, assembling it, installing it on the inside of the launch tube and riding it down to the bottom of the silo for that Sump Pump check? If having sex with someone in an aircraft is known as the Mile High Club what should sex at the bottom of a Minuteman III ICBM silo(sump pump check) be called? The Subterranean Club? The Armageddon Club? The Mutually Assured Destruction Club? Ive never been able to settle on one. I was really really good at repairing and replacing the old worn out grip tape with new grip tape on the wall mounted ladder rungs leading down into the LSB I remember the two .12 gauge shotguns and .00 buckshot wrapped in plastic down in the silo equipment room area. Just in case I guess. The Chicken Maryland/corn/roll combo was my go to order when dining at the LCF. It was actually The Bomb. Yeah, I could go on and on

[@TheHilariousGoldenChariot]

That’s some great memory memoriam

[@exterminator4808]

Very good video! 👍

[@karlzimmer683]

I got to jackhammer thru a couple of those plugs when they couldn’t unlock it. We were out several days due to bad weather too. Thanks for the video.

[@dscott130]

Very, very cool! Thank you!

[@Gollammeister]

Excellent video I enjoyed watching

[@One_4Israel]

This is great, your an EMT! MMT here 90th MSX F. E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne WY. Drove the PT and worked topside. 1996-2000.. Seems like only yesterday I was shouting reading from a T. O.

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

I was a sonartech in the Navy with a NATO Top Secret clearance. We had ASROC onboard my ship as well as Terrier missiles. After approximately three months aboard I was cleared for the PRP. We had to obey the 2-man rule and deadly force was authorized. As it seems you were, I was in the advanced electronics field as electronics technicians didn’t have the clearance to enter sonar control or ASROC control station. Very interesting video and informative! Since my ship was made into razor blades years ago…I don’t have to worry about…”confirming or denying the presence of nuclear weapons onboard the *** ******* ***-**👍🙂

[@craigs5212]

Graduated E-Lab tech school MM II, Chanute AFB, Rantool , spring 67' , coldest winter ever experienced. None of our class of 7 relished the thought of bone chilling winters in Minot or Grand Forks. But the SAC gods smiled on us, issuing seven sets of orders to 394th at Vandenburg in sunny CA, boy did we have a party. Very interesting place to be stationed, saw lots of launches of MM and other liquid burners. Had an Atlas blow up over my head while on brush fire watch detail, that gets your heart pumping as you run for the bus. We were not on alert status so had lots of free time to enjoy the area. Water was too cold for swimming but the scuba diving for abalone, lobster and fish were great. The weather was great but colder than you would think, as VAFB sticks way out in the cold pacific current and significantly west of Los Angeles. The reason they can launch polar orbits without dropping boosters on LA.

[@djorges]

My brother in law was at Vanderburg in the late 80s I visited often - was definitely better than Malmstrom. Chanute did get cold for sure

[@officially-ROB]

This is excellent thank you

[@howardr222]

Excellent as well I was a weapons officer of a submarine like a capsule but very different.

[@djorges]

Both kinda shaped the same - 😃😃

[@cousinligel2574]

Very nice presentation. I was stationed at Grand Forks AFB ND early 80’s. We were 321 SMW. I also was a team chief until I was sent to Quality Control where I went out and evaluated teams doing the work. QC. Loved the job but hated the cold and bugs in summer. The 321 SMW no longer exists and the LF’s and LCF’s all destroyed except one of each but they are inoperative and are now part of the Ronald Reagan Museum where you can tour them.

[@toddgram1009]

I was stationed in Grand Forks at that same time. 322 Missile Security. 80-84.

[@johndomas2621]

I was there from 87-90 in 321 OMMS as an EMT and then 321 FMMS . Winter was horrible but summer wasn't too bad, especially if you like fishing.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

What you see here is a Fiebinger developed underground ICBM silo, the first very similar one was built in Nazi Germany during late 1944 by MAKO near Arnstadt where the Germans started a large Skoda V101 (V4) 3 stage solid fuel rocket sucessfully from such a silo called Polte 2. (16.03.1945)

[@cadiminder892]

I live near like 5 of these bases in central Missouri and I’m impressed on how many there are

[@jim2lane]

If you look closely at the picture of SAC operations at 1:14 you'll see that the large displays on the wall are just very large projection screens like what you see in a movie theater, and to the right you'll see the overhead projectors displaying the shots to those screens 😊

[@klm3030]

great video, I was a team chief 1963-1967 455th MMS, Minot AFB ND, some of the worse winters, would love to take a tour of a MM III site

[@craterglass]

Freezin's the reason!

[@michaeldoonan1429]

I can yell you, temps weren't any warmer in the late 1970s. "40 below keeps the riff-raff out"....

[@terencegalati970]

My father, Vince Galati, was a missileer In 455th SMW, 63 to 67, Why Not Minot AFB. I remember ice needles and 10' high driveway snow forts.

[@LandNfan]

Glad I was on Tital II at McConnell AFB. Decent weather in a nice city that isn’t frozen out in the back of beyond. Was there from 9/66 thru 2/98. I was a 36253.

[@caryglennchristensen9037]

Yes! Thanks for your service. So were these sites all dissembled or destroyed?

[@paaat001]

Excellent. I was an EMT team chief then TTB instructor for the Wing 1 SQ 4 side (P,Q,R,S,T) We trained most of the troops at Romeo-28 by Dutton. Please let me know how your model works out. I have been trying to get up the courage to do one in 1/72.

[@lsudx479]

How big would 1/72 be? Are we talking the size of your living room? Your entire house? Or something that takes up the corner of a room?

[@sircampbell1249]

Lived it in Cheyenne Wyoming..

[@andyroo3022]

Very interesting. Those huge lock plugs were a point of discussion on there own. I would like to see your scale model of a Minuteman base too.

[@jasoncarswell7458]

80,000 lbs seems heavy until you realize the Titan II was 342,000 lbs (most of which was liquid). The Minuteman seems very sleek and modern by comparison.

[@terranceroff8113]

Malstrom..ohhhhh the memories.. 20 to 50 below zero in the winter.. white outs, blizzards. 80 to 90 degrees in the summer and mosquitos that consider most humans "fast food" I'm almost 65 years old, and we moved to Malstrom and Great Falls in 1965 after 4 years at Ramstien in Germany.. and yep I was just a kid! We kids did get to tour silo's. and I know shit today I learned as a pre teenager that's STILL top secret. But we "Air Force" angels never talked about mom or dads job. Honest to god i swear that kids who's folks were in SAC deserve a military pension!

[@terranceroff8113]

Also a note "interesting" in Air Force speak" translates to "it really sucks" as apposed to the term "Challenging" with translates to "Major suckage even worse and hope for a quick relatively painless death when everything inevitably goes wrong". Everything in context! Ahh the Airforce... Greyhound bus drivers had better looking uniforms then we did! Prolly still do.

[@travisgoff99]

I lived 15 miles from 1 of this silos near Cheyenne, Wyoming

[@JanPeterson]

My family was stationed at Malmstrom from 1973 until my dad retired in about 1984-ish? Sounds like we were there at the same time. I had a great time growing up at Malmstrom. The library was excellent, the bowling alley always good for a diversion, and the base theater often carried relatively new movies (I saw Alien there when it came out... my first R-rated movie). I used to ride my bike around Perimeter Road past the nuclear weapons storage facility quite regularly (that hill just outside the SF was a bear). Great memories of growing up on that base. I recall a few times during base open houses when we were able to tour the T-9 trainer, which I'm sure you were very familiar with. For those not in the know, there was a complete LF right on the base that was set up as a training facility (it never housed a live missile). The only difference from an actual LF was the regular stairway next to it so you didn't have to climb down the ladder to get inside. It sounds like you worked on the equipment and not the missile itself. For those wondering, the large blast door over the silo could be winched off with a little hydraulic tug (it would take a while) so that access to the missile itself could be gained. There were two specialized trucks, one that was used for transporting the nose cone of the missile (including the RVs... reentry vehicles... a.k.a. the nuclear weapons) and a second one called a transporter erector that could hoist the entire missile out of the silo so it could be returned to base for maintenance. Both of these trucks were designed such that they parked over the silo so the Soviets would not be able to see (from satellites) if there was a missile and warhead currently in the silo or not. This ensured that they had to target each individual LF if they wanted to be sure of taking out our Minuteman force. In the event of a launch, a set of gas generators would fire (think of them like cannon rounds but without the shells) which would actuate a plunger that pulled the door from underneath. This system could remove the several ton door in just a few seconds. In simulated launches (which I was able to participate in during a base open house and also during a visit with my ROTC group some years later), we would observe that the silo access door light would turn on, indicating that the door was open, and then the perimeter fence violated light would come on as the door flew through the fence at several miles per hour. Thank you for the great tour of an LF. Your diorama looks amazing, too.

[@robertbonser2724]

Hi Jan, Did you know Chief Master Sgt Baer? That was my father in law. He retired from Malstrom in 1982. I was on the Combat Targeting Team/ instructor, before I left in 1979

[@JanPeterson]

@@robertbonser2724 It doesn't sound familiar, but I'll bet my dad knew him... he was Chief Peterson in the 341st CSG. I'll ask him next time we talk.

[@JanPeterson]

@@robertbonser2724 Hey, Robert, I talked to my dad last night. He did NOT know Chief Baer, which surprises me as he knew pretty much everyone on that base. When we first transferred there he was with the 17th DSES, then the 24th and finally the 341st CSG where he was in personnel.

[@arcadeages3917]

Very cool to see this! Do you make your 3D print files available to the public?

[@basquevideos]

I thought I should watch, subscribe, and like your content and channel.

[@pauletxfish4976]

Lived in Shelby where we had our own 2 LF's just east of town !

[@satchell78]

Were you guys wearing seatbelts in your seats? Makes since if you think about it. I lived in Billings for a year and it hit -20F and I moved back to WA. lol

[@studinthemaking]

What grade of rebar did they use building this faculty? How many psi was it?

[@hrdknox2000]

Very cool! I wonder if the average civilian could buy Boron infused concrete for their doomsday bunkers? I'm guessing probably not. Thanks for sharing your story for us nerds who really get into this stuff!

[@terencegalati970]

Yes you can. It's used in hospital X-Ray and CT rooms along with lead lined drywall.

[@hrdknox2000]

@@terencegalati970 Thank you for sharing that information! Is it expensive to purchase and does it require special knowledge and/or equipment to mix it properly? I have so many questions. I also was wondering if there is any special handling techniques for handling Boron?

[@MissilemanIII]

I was MHT/MMT. 83-93. F.E. Warren AFB.

[@bruceparker985]

Any of those sites up for auction or sale yet? Semi working conditions

[@kevinkarbonik2928]

Meanwhile... in Russia... here comrade ... is a briefcase of money go and take a cigarette break and call your wife ... we'll be gone in 10 min.

[@gustavoaguilar3394]

What is the Minuteman Silo Security System Designation?

[@aldebaran9255]

I was Trident II D5 - United Kingdom.

[@jamesdavis5096]

1:19 nice war games music

[@gregnancyspear4367]

Neat

[@Pilotman28]

good vid!

[@djorges]

Thanks

[@TheLucanicLord]

North American Defense Strategic Air Command. 3:40 The missiles are buried underground, but they're controlled from a shack? Wouldn't that be easy to knock out?

[@kppd41]

As a former Security Specialist. Do not call us “Security Guards!” We took “Use of deadly force authorized” very serious.

[@djorges]

My apologies- I didn’t mean any disrespect. I appreciated all those people did for me and their country.

[@jimziemer474]

If you are guarding the perimeter, isn’t that a security guard? Use of deadly force doesn’t change that. Thanks for your service.

[@jacobsparry8525]

Ined the cut aways you did to show, I did not see it any of large water reservoirs for attenuation of violent of oscillations of resonant launching sound and vibrations attenuation for when did the missile launch. Where at were thosed being? Withed out that the whole of silo would to be shakened to destruction fromed increasing of sounds resonance and amplitude being caused fromed the resonating vibrations of the missile’s HUGED exhausting plumes coming from ined the engined exhausting bell chambers. Probly they do haved some layers of ablating stuff whiched does burned away whiched does to absorbed somed of the resonant forces as does it burned away, but mostly there must be as a HUGED of waters curtain or deluged guns aimed to right at where doesed the mained force of the bell chambers exhausting jets and plumed! - Ifed do you wished to acshully see it to ined action just watched it a old of spaced shuttle launching and acshully you cand see it the deluged guns shooting of bazillions of gallons of waters to right ined the exhausting fires and thened see it comed shooting out fromed the steamed tunnels downed below of the rocket and now being as white steam. - I finded a video about of this acshully whiched does to show it what was I talking about at here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpDdY2Bvp7eji5Y And acshully do they haved a bunched of videos of this and too even how does Russians attenuate sound and blasting. Any way just haved I wondered where at is all that water being stored to at? My father and my grand of father did worked at Aerojets General to maked the first very SLBM whiched was being the Polaris A-1 SLBM dry fuels missile. They acshully could be ejected fromed the submarine capsules by shooting of a small rocket engines in to a small tank of waters whiched would maked instant steam and blow the missile fromed the capsule from uped to at +55 feet under the waters and go to the surfaced and then broached , ignited and blasted off for space! Any ways that has maked me curious of that stuff and physics of bombs and stuff. When do you figured it how deep and big of a hole would a Soviets Union bomb maked I do not thinked being ined one of thosed places would to be very of safe either. Just a 9 megatons ground bunker buster, whiched was very the biggest the US had at the Cold War would leaved a crater as 1279 feet ined to diameter and 328 feet deep !!! AND that just is as big as USA did haved, but Soviets Union did haved way very bigger war heads thened did the USA be caused theirs bombs where NOT very of accurate so did they haved to haved way bigger wars heads to geted the samed results of what ours more accurate bombs could to do. A smaller of 25 kilotons bomb right on top of a bunker would to still squished every one ined to it.

[@The_Seal77]

341st Supply Squadron myself 87' to 90'

[@djorges]

Cheers to you

[@joeminpa6705]

So, I take it you were FMT/FMMS? I was EMT - 321 SMW Grand Forks. Bummer they are all gone now. I really like what you are doing. I would some day like to make a flyable MMIII model and silo and launch it, but there is no place close to me that i can launch rockets. Great presentation. I don't know if you guys did this at Malmstrom, but in the LF, I think it was the HF rack, maybe the third drawer up?? It was empty. We would open it and initial the inside of the panel.

[@mikeshelley4862]

Joe, when were you at GFAFB? I was there from 1975-1979 - EMT and then TTB.

[@joeminpa6705]

@@mikeshelley4862 1985 - 1989, then went Palace Front to the 171st ARW in Pittsburgh. ...LOL 10 years apart!

[@johndomas2621]

@@joeminpa6705 86-90 for me in the 321st

[@joeminpa6705]

@@johndomas2621 what shop?

[@johndomas2621]

@@joeminpa6705 EMT then Vehicles & Equipment Control Branch

[@kurtwenzel8413]

And also I guess if the enemy hits us with a missile that's going to wipe out all the electricity for ever. Then they said that the enemy can can shut down our whole defense computers and all that and we can't defend ourselves but I'm sure you guys got that worked out anyway so that was my question??

[@michaeldoonan1429]

The Missiles and Launch crews all have their own backup generators when commercial power is lost to the sites. Large batteries backup the generators.

[@terencegalati970]

My father said they had emergency rations and diesel fuel for 30 days. After that, they had a shovel to dig themselves out the 45 degree culvert escape tube. This was in 1966.

[@michaeldoonan1429]

@@terencegalati970 That was still true in 1982 when I left Minot. If I remember, the Escape Tunnel hatch weighed 554 lbs and held in place by 2 chains. We called it the Deputy Killer. We figured it was a non issue because the sand filled tunnel would have turned to glass during a NUDET.

[@kurtwenzel8413]

My dad was in the German army WWII and he told me that the darned Germans Hitler was the one who designed the nuclear bomb and it's all his fault because now the enemy's all have it but thank God he didn't use it I guess he wanted a built one and then attacked Russia and United States I didn't know if he had nuclear capabilities that's another thing I was wondering about that but I don't know if that's really true but that's what I heard from my dad said they are the ones who designed that damned nuclear missile bomb 💣

[@therealstubot]

LOL Hey Dewey! Grab George and Max and lets have a skirmish.

[@djorges]

Let’s do it - meet you at Tango-50!!!! I don’t even think exists anymore - how about Dutton-Zero

[@therealstubot]

@@djorges I went to Dutton Zero once, when I subbed for a MM3 team. I drove east not north. Dutton Zero had good cinnamon rolls.

[@BeechSportBill]

If our Titan II didn’t fire, we could walk out there and kick it!

[@icbmrick6514]

He used iMovie to edit this lol

[@workingshlub8861]

i dont think the lock picking lawyer could get open that lock....

[@macmckay9466]

How to kill millions of humans with the push of one button.

[@dougvelliquette7655]

Oh, love all the dot mil comments on having a TS and drawing out all the qualification test cheaters. Navy Boomers are far more disciplined. Thanks for sharing.

[@mrdavis3804]

The Sponge. Just say no to GBSD.

[@hesquiahtson3977]

Just a bunch of photos 😂

[@hungkiet7535]

Jesus Christ is coming back very soon!!!

[@phillysauto4724]

This is not a VIRTUAL TOUR

[@malamuteaerospace6333]

Needless to say Great Falls Montana is on Russia's shit list....

[@wgoode505]

Why do you make those constant smacking sounds when you talk, just very annoying

[@djorges]

😂😂😂 guess I’m not perfect

[@cook7387]

Such wasteful nonsense, it all looks so very expressive.

[@JimBob-jb4fh]

Not really, the technologies learned from the programs have been extremely beneficial to advances in Space Flight propulsion, fabrics, rubber compounents, computing/programming, and on and on. Deterants also work pretty well, did the Russians hit us with a nuclear waepon? Nope.

[@cook7387]

@@Gogglesofkrome /first of all, you have no idea what I have lived with or without, thanks to this"deterrent" the U. S creates these wars all over the world, the U. S is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons against a country that didn't have any, deterrence is a lie to justify making more weapons with my money and your money for that matter, in the U. S we live protected by the ocean, a strong army is enough, we don't need to threaten the existence of life itself over a lie, no one wins in a nuclear exchange.