SHIELD OF FREEDOM IS A 1960 CIVILIAN PROPAGANDA FILM EXPLAINING THE ROLE OF THE USAF - Air Defense Command A MISSION LASTING OVER 30 YEARS WHEN IT WAS THOUGHT THAT NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEING USED BY ENEMY FORCES WOULD COME VIA BOMBER, AN ELABORATE NETWORK OF USAF BASES AND SITES THAT WERE OPERATING AS RADAR, BOMARC MISSILES ARMED WITH 12 kt WARHEADS FOR ANTI AIRCRAFT PROTECTION,"ADC" JET INTERCEPTORS IDLING IN ALERT BARNS ON AIR BASES SPREAD AROUND THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, THE CONTINUOUS VIGILANCE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEING CARRIED IN LONG RANGE JET BOMBERS THAT FLEW 365 DAYS 24 HRS A DAY NO HOLIDAYS OFF,JET TANKERS REFUELING THE VARIOUS BOMBERS SO THEY COULD DELIVER THEIR PAYLOADS A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION TO KEEP THE BOMBERS FLYING AND WITH ENOUGH FUEL TO MAKE IT BACK, ORDERS CARRIED INSIDE A SAFE INSIDE THE COCKPITS OF B-52s, B47s, B48 HUSTLERS DESCRIBING WHAT SOVIET TARGETS THEY WERE TO TAKE OUT IF THEY WERE ORDERED IN,AND A AIRBORNE COMMAND POST "NEACP" (NATIONAL EMERGENCY AIRBORNE COMMAND POST) CARRYING A GENERAL AND BATTLE STAFF WITH LAUNCH CODES HIGH TECH COMMUNICATION ABILITIES. ABLE TO STAY ALOFT FOR 72 HOURS BEFORE HAVING TO LAND IN CASE OF AN ATTACK BY SOVIET FORCES THAT SURPRISED THE MASSIVE FORCE THAT PROTECTED THE (CONUS) CONTINENTAL U.S. THE ABOVE ASSETS ALONG WITH THE AIRBORNE CONTROL POST WOULD FIGHT WORLD WAR 3 FROM 8 OR MORE MILES ABOVE THE THE HELLFIRES FROM INCINERATED CITIES BELOW ,PERHAPS THIS WAS THE BIGGEST EFFORT OF ALL TIME TO PLAN FOR WAR COSTING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THEIR WAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT, AND THIS WAS JUST OPERATING COSTS TO DETER ATTACK, LASTLY TO NOT FORGET THE EARLY ICBMS OF THESE TIMES WITH USAF MISSILEERS AWAITING LAUNCH CODES HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW GROUND, AS ELECTRONICS AND SCIENCE GREW MOST OF OUR DETERRENTS WERE OBSOLETE SINCE A SUBMARINE OFF OUR COASTLINE COULD INCINERATE MOST OF THE UNITED STATES IN UNDER A HALF HOUR, MISSILES IN PROTECTIVE SILOS WITH MULTIPLE WARHEADS COULD BE LAUNCHED AND FORGOT AS COMPUTERS ABOARD THESE ROCKETS GUIDED THEM TO THEIR SOVIET TARGETS AND AS THESE MISSILES APPROACHED THE SOVIET UNION THE WARHEAD WOULD OPEN AND RELEASE OTHER WARHEADS WITH DIFFERENT TARGETS THAT FOR THE MOST PART ARE INVINCIBLE, AT TIMES THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK WAS SET TO SOMEWHERE LIKE 1 MINUTE OR LESS TILL MIDNIGHT DENOTING HOW CLOSE TO A NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION THE WORLD WAS. TODAY THE USAF NUCLEAR WINGS COMPRISED OF ICBMS SPREAD OUT AMONG THE PRAIRIES OF NEBRASKA, N. DAKOTA,& KANSAS ALONG WITH OUR NUCLEAR POWERED SUBS ABLE TO STAY UNDETECTED AS LONG AS PROVISIONS LAST ARE THE NUCLEAR HAMMER, AS TIME EVOLVED A NEW KIND OF WAR BEGAN ON A BEAUTIFUL SEPTEMBER DAY IN NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, WASHINGTON DC. A WAR THAT THESE WEAPONS CAN NOT FIGHT OR DETER SINCE THE ENEMY OPERATES IN SMALL GROUPS AND FIGHTS LIKE A COWARD. THEY ARE CALLED TERRORISTS AND UNLIKE THE COLD WAR OUR ENEMY LIVES AMONG US, PLOTTING, WAITING, READY TO KILL INNOCENTS,
THESE PLACES WERE DECOMMISSIONED AND RAZED ALMOST IN A ATTEMPT TO HIDE THE MADNESS OF THIS ERA IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THEY DO NOT EXIST AS MUCH AS THE MEN AND WOMEN IN THE ADC WERE THE LAST HOPE BETWEEN A ENEMY ATTACK ON OUR NATION, THEIR WAR WAS CALLED "THE COLD WAR" DO NOT BE FOOLED IT WAS ANYTHING BUT COLD AND THE FACT WE MADE IT THROUGH THIS ERA IS TESTAMENT TO DETERRENCE AND THE FACT WE WOULD USE THESE WEAPONS WITHOUT A THOUGHT WAS BACKED UP BY OUR BOMBING OF JAPAN WITH TWO NUCLEAR DEVICES AND IF WE HAD THEM A LITTLE EARLIER EUROPE WOULD STILL BE GLOWING.
