USAF Strategic Air Command | The Global Shield | Documentary | 1980

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[@garylawson5381]

I was a TOW missile gunner stationed in West Germany at the time this video was made. Brings back memories! I am to say the least, delighted this never happened for real.

[@GM8101PHX]

I personally participated in the exercise shown in this video at Fairchild AFB in 1980!

[@Rocdog]

Gregory Miller I was watching this at Malmstrom AFB in 1991

[@sparkyman111]

I was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB 1980-84, we had SAC and TAC, I was security Police, I walked around those Aircraft many times, still love the memories and always loved the Klaxon Drills

[@usafvet100]

Every duty day at 1300 they would test the klaxon. When it went off, everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY on base checked their watch, it was either 1300 or say your prayers and be quick about it if you wanted to get to amen. One of those Strangelovian things you just got used to. Good times!😂

[@johnnybanks5321]

Pumped a lot of JP-4 on those BUFFS and KCs at Shady Jay 79-83.

[@usafvet100]

Always treaded lightly around you SP boys whenever my duties put me at the Alert Pad, followed procedures and instructions to the letter. Lot of "USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED" signs to remind us of where exactly we were. We were told "the second halt is written on the bullet," I never tested that proposition.😂😂😂💀💀💀

[@usafvet100]

@@johnnybanks5321 My crew chief and I were often assigned as the "hot crew" with our P2 crash firefighting truck, among other things that meant we would have to set up as safety standby whenever a KC135 did a rapid defuel. At least one of the J57s was firewalled during this process, will never forget the banshee shriek those things put out! Ah, the sound of freedom!😁

[@andysmith1338]

As a crew chief in the 1980's in SAC, Being on the Alert Force was hell of a rush. Nothing in Life will ever compare. Waking up with the horn going off, getting dressed and running down the tunnel towards the trucks and meeting up with your air crew and flying to the alert shelters.. Once getting to the bomber shelters and the air crew getting in the plane and starting the bombers engines. It was Intense and awesome. Was it for real? or was it a practice? There was a time in 1983 we thought that it was for real.. That's all..

[@gorillaau]

Andy Smith You were probably very relieved when you find out that it was a drill. I don't want to know projections of losses should WW3 happens.

[@goreoproductions6955]

What did you crew chiefs and everyone else do once the bombers and the tankers launched? Wait to get nuked?

[@GM8101PHX]

I was assigned to the 92d Security Police Squadron, when the klaxon sounded I was authorized to exit the Bomber Alert Area and head down the parallel taxiway with the accelerator floored to beat the first B-52 to the 05 end of the runway! Then I switched to working the alarm tower and had a commanding view of the taxiway leading to the 23 end of the runway! I also had a radio with the control tower frequency and alert force frequencies in the Tower. Thank God we never launched in anger!

[@Rocdog]

Oh I know. I was on the flight line throwing sign/counter sign to the 135 crews

[@Rocdog]

Gregory Miller 341st. SPS and 839th. MSS here

[@claud1able]

I am proud that my husband was one of SAC’s many airman and flew The RC 135 , a multi engine aircraft, and he did many of these Recalls.

[@kennethford1256]

@Fuzzy Butkus Strategic Air Command!!!Been There!!!Done That!!!1970s 43151E Style 4 engine + jet. Ken Ford Jr.

[@winstonbelisle3560]

Used to be a SAC base in Gosnel, Ark, just outside Blytheville, Ar. Remember seeing the B52s coming over my house. This was back in the 50-60s era. I even attended base tours, when they had them at times. That base is closed now, and used for commercial airline refitting. Went to the online PX once. Heard they had nuke missiles in silos around. Part of the Cold War era in the 70s. I was coming out of HS then.

[@FranklySpeaking73]

We love you, SAC! thank you for your service!

[@bboucharde]

Here's a salute to SAC personnel back in the 70's. I used to work as a contractor with those people. Great people who were totally against war. "Peace Is Our Profession" really meant something. Why did the DOD change the name and doctrine* of SAC? ...... It worked well the way it was......... *(from deterrence to preemption.....)

[@russvoight1167]

Actually SAC was a victim of it's own success, the USSR collapsed and broke apart. The nuclear deterrence mission was successful and I will always be proud to have been a part of SAC. Took my son and grandsons to the SAC Museum in Omaha last weekend

[@usafvet100]

Mr Gorbachev tore down that wall. I proudly wear a SAC patch on my hat to this day. Peace Was Our Profession.

[@drhelios132]

Do you think the modern bomber and ICBM force still fulfill that role even though they are SAC no longer?

[@bboucharde]

@@drhelios132 DRH, Yes, but the global balance of power is shifting, so that the RELATIVE power of the USA is not as overwhelming as it was in 1980.

[@fh511]

@@bbouchardeThe USSR had a larger and better equipped ground & helicopter force but a smaller airforce & navy. They were probably, alongside the Warsaw pact 50-60% stronger than NATO forces, the ones in Europe at least. The US global power peaked in my opinion between 1994-2001

[@adirondacker007]

Grew up near Plattsburgh AFB. The summer I was 14, I was working on my brother's logging crew in Forestdale. One day, I was gassing and oiling my saw when an FB-111 came out nowhere at treetop level. The jetwash had dead tree limbs falling around my ears for a while. I had a good laugh after the initial surprise wore off.

[@jameshogan7079]

Flew KC-135 and EC-135s at Gruesome Grissom in the early '80s. Often we knew when a Klaxon exercise was going to happen, and that was usually because someone saw the Wing King in his car parked at the hammer head. I often wandered if he knew that he was tipping us off. However, sometimes the joke was on us. Like the Saturday morning klaxon when the Wing King and CINCSAC were golfing on base, along with most of the alert crews (I believe that Grissom was the only base in SAC where you could golf while on alert). My best memory was another Saturday AM klaxon when my co-pilot was in the shower in the middle of shaving her legs. Seeing her running across the ramp with a wet flight suit was hilarious - and she was a very good sport about it.

[@loythomas4586]

I concur, I served in SAC 1975-1981 as a CC on B-52D models, I spent time on alert,like you said,there was nothing like That experience

[@trumanstanley8040]

I miss those days . We need to bring that back!

[@Rocdog]

Holy Shit! I saw this when I first got to Malmstrom AFB when there was a SAC! Gen. John T. Chain was the man!

[@billybob2372]

Served at Castle AFB in California in the late 70s as a 32551 (avionic instrument systems specialist). Castle was the only base that trained B52 and KC135 refueling tankers. SACs motto was "Peace is our profession". Since the world hasn't seen another nuclear weapon being used I guess our deterrent has worked. Just my opinion from a SAC trained killer

[@cycleguy1943]

I was stationed at Barksdale AFB in ‘84-87 SAC ATTACK

[@RCAvhstape]

3:20 Okay, honey, there's a nuclear war, gotta go. See you for dinner later!

[@GrayFoxROU]

Dont forget to let the skin on that chicken!

[@1bottlejackdaniels]

12:15 ..."i'm going airborne!" ...translation: "fuck off. you're all dead. time to go!" -.-

[@cockula776]

lmao this right here!

[@yao1070]

Reminds me of the film Dr Strangelove.

[@EmperorPresidentFMMehdiUSANATO]

Very very nice important video.

[@jspriver]

The Z28 at 3:23 would’ve been new. A pricey car. SAC must have paid well

[@justforever96]

Not that pricey. It would be like having a Charger today, or a GT-R. They had finance back then too. The entire point of muscle cars was that they were cheap enough to be affordable to young men, unlike powerful cars available prior to that time, like Cadillacs. And people were driving Cadillacs in the hood back then. It could be done. Of course even an "expensive" car was relatively a lot cheaper back then. Even taking inflation into account, cars are way more expensive than they used to be. All the technology and safety features in modern cars cost money, which is only partly offset by modern manufacturing technology.

[@bubpori5105]

And that stereo Receiver PIONEER ,Kenwood Maybe with a Modest Place to Live !.

[@russvoight1167]

Some of the B-52 scenes were shot at Ellsworth AFB SD, 28th Bomb Wing. I was in the FMS welding shop from Aug 1976 until December 1979

[@barkermjb]

My first assignment was SAC at Malmstrom. No one had to remind us about how important the mission was.

[@alalahmed844]

Love it

[@Someone_else_u_know]

Little do we know of the Ol' Eagle's wings and their capabilities. 🤝

[@thereal440volt]

So as the aircraft are returned to a ready/ maintenance configuration, are they degenerated?

[@complexblackness]

thereal440volt Im sure some will have damage.

[@shooter2055]

I was part of this as a missile crew dog with the 91st SMW. Busy days.

[@jamesflickinger1363]

memories.........................

[@billharvey9836]

My father was stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and was stationed at March Air Force Base he parked those B52s

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I had a rocket set in the 80's, snap together and put the stickers on.

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[@whiskey5jda]

Thank God we never had a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

[@mcahill135]

Yet…..

[@johnnychambers6969]

They dropped that 50 Meg and we freaked out,coming up with shit like a 280mm nuclear gun....

[@southwestxnorthwest]

Nothing like disco music to finish off the end of the world

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[@supremeflagship8965]

USN has Trident 2 D5 missiles, USAF has Minuteman 3 ICBM & strategic bombers (B-52, B-1B, B-2) and US Army has... why US Army don't have any strategic nuclear weapons/delivery systems at it's disposal?

[@DMBall]

How many planes was the audience supposed to watch take off before they got the message?

[@speedracer2336]

I hated CAFI, old SAC troops will know what that is!

[@robinsites9790]

If it moves salute it…if it doesn’t paint it! In SAC 1982-1991…was a BUFF EW at Barksdale and Castle

[@albertcaprara2999]

Once you're in SAC you never go back.

[@DukeMitchell.223]

Why did SAC become TAC? How do we flush the bombers now?

[@justforever96]

It didn't. Tactical Command was the counterpart of Strategic Command. They have totally different missions. Tactical force deals with battlefield strikes, air superiority, interdiction, basically combat aviation. Strategic forces are used for international nuclear deterrence.

[@RedRightHand652]

The new SAC is Air Force Global Strike Command. (As far as I know)

[@keithvernonlewis9403]

We no longer have a force that thinks strictly of thermonuclear war, that was the primary mission of SAC was to wage, IF NECESSARY GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR, but the PREFERRED job of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND was to MAINTAIN PEACE THROUGH DETERRENCE. As a former member of the strategic Air command in the middle 70s through the early 80s, and quite literally a lifelong student of thermonuclear war (in the seventh grade I went down to our local civil defense office and clean them out of everything on shelters, radiological defense, everything and I was the first kid they had visited them in years. I was reading some of material my spare time at school and ended up in the counselor's office with my principal, with my parents and with the school shrink. THEY felt it was odd for a 7th grader to have an interest thermonuclear war, let alone surviving such an event. And I am still a student at age 65 and back in 2014 when Putin took Crimea I updated all my radiological equipment. I do wish to thank comrade Putin for the kick in the pants for me to drag my stuff from 1950s technology into the 2000's tech and maintaining 6 months worth food, water and medicines in my home again. I stopped doing that back in 92 after the Soviet Union fell, boy how wrong I was.....) And now with access to former government files that have been declassified at all levels. The documents range from notes between various administrators government think tanks to formally classified top secret and above from various commands within the United States military and various agencies to those commands. Those documents and communications up with the stories written by various political figures. I have found very disturbing things, some things remained clear and unfortunately ended up being made much, much darker. All in all I think we still do not have a firm grasp how close we came to ending life as we know it, at least for humans in the northern hemisphere. Let's just hope we're as lucky with what's currently happening and avoid the potential of a local if not a planetary extinction level event for human beings.....

[@keithdmaust1854]

@@keithvernonlewis9403 You are sane. The rest of us are partially of fully in denial.

[@keithvernonlewis9403]

​​@@keithdmaust1854thank you much for your kindness and I hope that none of us end up being flash-fried because of certain individuals insanity or maybe a long-term plan. I am in the process of getting my two sons geared up in the event of a worst-case scenario. MY youngest son is in the Air Force and he started asking serious questions of me and we have a plan to evacuate his wife and our granddaughter in the event things get hot from the salt lake.... One of the horrifying things that has been going on in Washington state over the years, is Washington state civil defense does not have or provide information on radiological warfare. BACK in the eighties they felt that Ronald Reagan was too much of a warmonger so they refused any federal funding to provide information on radiological warfare to a citizens but they do have plenty of things like in the event of a tidal wave or a volcano goes off maybe some odds and ends about a terrorist attack but if you want a radiological information or how to build a fallout shelter you're just really out of luck, it's nice to know that we still haven't learned a damn thing about the dangers of politics in our nation. So I hope yours and your family friends are doing well and please give some thought to the current situation in the world as I fear that my son is about to be deployed to some Faraway place

[@Manufly59]

Great history document. Exposure of digital copy is far too dark.

[@andrewbehrends4743]

Tanks to Mister PRESIDENT OF THE GELLEBEANES. ...

[@manuwilson4695]

Go USA!...we rely on you fuckers! 🙏

[@kresnoadiwibowo2856]

Cold War era

[@ronc9743]

OK Film, but I think Dr. Strange Love was better. 😀

[@donhill3rd]

surviving locations? LOL

[@123-x7w3k]

Bring S,A,C, BACK TRUMP

[@Rocdog]

123 AMEN

[@ksroyce1]

Bring back a Putin asset? Nooooo

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