Titan II Missile Museum

[@smw381st]

I was stationed at McConnell AFB and i did maintenance at all 18 Titan 2 sites surrounding that area. I was with the 381st SMW

[@Bbendfender]

I was on a launch crew from 1971-75. Most of my alerts were at 532-4 and 532-5.

[@smw381st]

​@@Bbendfender We must have run into each other at times and I went to those 2 sites quite often.

[@Bbendfender]

@@smw381st We probably did.

[@smw381st]

@@Bbendfender I was with the 532'nd for a while before transferring to the 381st maintenance and I was in the linen exchange for a while, also my cousin did the Combat Crew for a while and his site was at the 532-6

[@Bbendfender]

@@smw381st Small World isn't it. Do you remember SSgt. Joe Flores? He was in linen exchange for awhile too.

[@robertmitchell2142]

I was at the museum sometime after 1989 when it first opened. 1 of my dad's brothers was station at Davis-Monthan Air Base till the early 1970's and stayed put there ever since. He has passed in the mean time.

[@captlarry-3525]

You really should take the tour and go down into the facility if you are anywhere around Tucson. The money expended to build this..and in some cases the sheer funkyness of the equipment is mind blowing. I carried with me the ignition key for my 1947 Bellanca airplane, and it was The Same as the Launch Keys On Display upstairs in the Museum !!! If you are a Ham Radio Operator.. you can hook up your portable or mobile ham transciever to the giant Discone Antenna out in the parking lot.. courtesy of the local ham radio club. I did and made a few contacts !

[@miltonsmith8298]

Great video except in the opening scene which shows a Titan I ICBM, which was not launched from an underground silo. That missile had to be raised from its silo prior to launch.

[@kenfloyd6066]

I have always wanted to know who it was that put the codes in the safes? Both here and on board ships, subs and aircraft.

[@collinfay6779]

Great question, someone had to put it in there and knows it... maybe their dead?

[@bjmccann1]

When that bell went off I got the shivers. I was born in 1961, that shit STILL scares me. It means nothing to my daughters.

[@chrishansen6502]

I'm 14 and it scares the shit out of me!

[@amperzand9162]

+Jacob Hardy Seventeen and the same. Shit's frightening, yo.

[@brucebedford5121]

I was on a combat crew and the hair on my neck stood up when I heard it today. "a little STSD"

[@cdcoatman]

3:09 its the dude from Veritaserum`s video

[@sonus289]

man. Were they really that slow commin out of the silo?

[@thomasarthurmaj]

A Titan II blew up and threw its warhead a few hundred feet into a ditch near Damascus, Arkansas in 1980, after an engineer dropped the socket of a wrench down the silo and punctured the hypergolic fuel tank.

[@Bbendfender]

The first missile launch is a Titan I, not a Titan II.

[@KSmall109CAB]

Bbendfender Yeah, that looks like a Titan I judging from the warhead and from the shape of the rest of the ICBM. The Titan II missiles seemed to be slightly narrower than the Titan I missiles.

[@KarenRatte]

Bbendfender yep.

[@Cancun771]

The Titan I was not fired from its silo but raised above ground on an elevator system, which is not what's going on here.

[@Bbendfender]

Cancun, this Titan I was fired from within its silo. I know they were normally fired from a raised position but this one definitely is a Titan I and was fired from the silo. 100% positive because I am a former Titan II launch crew member. My old red Squadron patch to the left.

[@sparc77]

LOL "Arch Stanton". I wonder how many people actually catch that. So you were a 2-sider? I was on 3-side back in the early 80s.

[@aluminumfence]

Does anybody know what the name of the music at the end of the video is?

[@amessman]

AluminumFence Messa da Requiem: V. Angus dei

[@dogmannz]

Why do noddies insist on zooming in and out for no reason while not even bothering to frame shots?