Missile Humor

[Panache]

Art on the blast door of a Delta One launch control facility.

[MIKE]

It better be piping hot too!

[THRAWN]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

[Flying Pig]

Painting that was probably a good remedy from going nuts sitting in that bunker for hours on end

[AlphaSigOU]

To be more technically correct, it is the blast door leading to the launch control center of Delta-01, now part of the Minuteman Missile National Historical Site near Wall, South Dakota. It was once part of the 44th Missile Wing at Ellsworth AFB and once controlled 10 Minuteman II missiles. Launch Facility Delta-09 not too far away houses a deactivated MMII missile in its silo.

Linky: http://www.nps.gov/mimi/index.htm

[PHall]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

[LSThiker]

Wall, South Dakota.

Free ice water.

[SarDragon]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

[PHall]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

You study that during during sortie study before you assume alert Dave.

Of course what do I know, I just have 10 years of pulling Alert in SAC on KC-135A's and EC-135C's.
I have worn the "Red Badge of Courage".

Those who have pulled Alert in SAC know what that is.

[Panache]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

"Turn your key, sir!"

[Flying Pig]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

You guys must be a bunch of robots

[AlphaSigOU]

Conehead - ahem - missile duty! Live by the checklist, die by the checklist!

[AlphaSigOU]

Painting that was probably a good remedy from going nuts sitting in that bunker for hours on end

It was quite common for LCC blast doors to be painted in an effort to build esprit de corps; not sure if it's still done today. Oscar-01 at Whiteman (the only Minuteman II LCC within an Air Force base) has a painted Oscar the Grouch on its blast door. The ICBMs were retired long ago.

[THRAWN]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

You guys must be a bunch of robots

Hardly a robot, but when the entire nuclear community is under scrutiny for cheating, I kind of look at stuff like this and wonder just how much of my tax money is being tossed away by people who have their priorities in the wrong place.

[arajca]

Hardly a robot, but when the entire nuclear community is under scrutiny for cheating, I kind of look at stuff like this and wonder just how much of my tax money is being tossed away by people who have their priorities in the wrong place.

Two words: Nose Art.

[THRAWN]

Hardly a robot, but when the entire nuclear community is under scrutiny for cheating, I kind of look at stuff like this and wonder just how much of my tax money is being tossed away by people who have their priorities in the wrong place.

Two words: Nose Art.

Three words: nuclear cheating scandal. Look, I get it, unit pride and all that...but if you have time to paint the door, you have time to crack the book. And if you can't study when you're on duty, you sure as shootin shouldn't be thinking of punny graphics to paint....

[The Infamous Meerkat]

Seven words: Are you out of your mind, Sir?

These guys spend I don't know how many hours doing what they have to do to be good at their job, and you who most likely have no knowledge of their daily plans have the gall to tell them how to do their job? How are you to know that he didn't already re-run his procedures before picking up the brush to paint it? And furthermore, how do you know it wasn't painted in the Sixties long before these guys were even born?

Are you seriously worried about one or two Airmen's free time joke that may have (but probably didn't) cost you a couple pennies out of your taxes? Maybe you need to spend every second of your off hours studying your Law Enforcement and FAA manuals (Or whatever you do), your free time needs to be restricted too, based on a random comment from somebody who doesn't know anything about you....

[PHall]

Painting that was probably a good remedy from going nuts sitting in that bunker for hours on end

It was quite common for LCC blast doors to be painted in an effort to build esprit de corps; not sure if it's still done today. Oscar-01 at Whiteman (the only Minuteman II LCC within an Air Force base) has a painted Oscar the Grouch on its blast door. The ICBMs were retired long ago.

That's because Oscar-01's missiles did not have nuclear warheads on them. They had ERCS payloads.
ERCS was the Emergency Rocket Communications System. MM II missiles with the ERCS would be launched one to the east and one to the west with the ERCS payloads transmitting the Emergency Action Message that the Crew at Oscar-01 had uploaded into it.
This helped insure that everybody got the message. 
The EC-135C Looking Glass aircraft and the E-4B NEACP (now NAOC) aircraft had the equipment on-board to program and launch the ERCS from the aircraft in case Oscar-01 went down.

[PHall]

There's plenty of study time wasted...

Study time for what?

Rules and procedures.

You guys must be a bunch of robots

Hardly a robot, but when the entire nuclear community is under scrutiny for cheating, I kind of look at stuff like this and wonder just how much of my tax money is being tossed away by people who have their priorities in the wrong place.

Not the entire community. Just the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, MT.