SAC PRIMARY ADC SUFFOLK AFB (open house 1961 slideshow)

SCAFB Open House 1961THIS SLIDE SHOW OF SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB IS THE ONLY WAY I
COULD GET THESE PHOTO'S OF THE BASE ON TO THIS BLOG SINCE WEBSHOTS HAS THEM HOOKED INTO THEIR SITE AND WON'T SHARE IT'S WORTH WATCHING SINCE THE JETS ARE VINTAGE COLD WAR AND SHOWS THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE BASE I HAVE NOT SEEN MANY PICTURES OF SUFFOLK AFB IN OPERATION SO THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE GREAT.

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND EARLY 1960

PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION
BUT WAR IS OUR
SPECIALTY

AIRPOLICE GUARD THE VITAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE US AIRFORCE'S NUCLEAR COMBAT  FORCES AT "SAC" STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, ONE OF A FEW HARDENED BUNKERS WHERE THE US AIRFORCE  CAN SURVIVE AND CO-ORDINATE THE STRATEGIC US AIRDEFENSE FORCE CONSISTING OF A HUNDRED SUCH BASES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE US THAT HOUSES ,B-52 NUCLEAR ARMED STRATEGIC BOMBERS,THE VAST NETWORK OF EARLY WARNING RADAR OUTPOSTS, ADC INTERCEPTOR SQUADRONS THAT AT THE DROP OF A HAT CAN BE CALLED TO DESTROY ANY UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT , ALSO HUNDREDS OF MISSILE COMMAND CENTERS WHERE INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES SIT DEEP IN SILOS WAITING FOR THE ORDER TO LAUNCH, EVEN THE AIRBORNE REFUELING AIRCRAFT VITAL TO A WAR THAT WILL SIT OUTSIDE THE ENEMIES BORDERS WAITING FOR THE BOMBERS TO RETURN TO REFUEL THEM TO GET BACK HOME.THIS BASE IS CENTERED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE US AT OFFUT AFB,WHICH IS LOCATED IN BELLEVUE NEBRASKA, THIS BASE SITS SECURE UNDERGROUND AND KNOWS WHERE EVERY USAF ASSET IS AND CAN COMMUNICATE TO ALL OF THEM THE ORDERS TO GO TO WAR.

GRUMMAN NAVAL WEAPONS PLANT ,TOP SECRET PROTOTYPE CRASHES NEAR LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY 1970

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIDN'T JUST PUT THE PRIMARY ADC FOR THE NORTHEAST ON L.I. AND THE NUCLEAR ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE DEFENSE HERE FOR NOTHING. A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE COLD WAR MILITARY MACHINE WAS ON LONG ISLAND NY THAT'S WERE ALL THE AVIATION & WEAPON PLANTS WHERE AIRCRAFT STARTING WITH WORLD WAR ONE RIGHT INTO THE COLD WAR WERE BUILT. REPUBLIC/FAIRCHILD/GRUMMAN/ WERE THE PLANE MFG's THAT WON WARS AND BUILT TO FLY FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS INTO  WORLD WAR 2  THE KOREAN WAR ,VIETNAM, AND THE COLD WAR LOTS OF ELECTRONICS FOR JAMMING & GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND WEAPON AIMING AND BUILDING THE CRAFT THAT TOOK THE MEN DOWN ON TO THE MOONS SURFACE CALLED "LEM", THE SAME COMPANY ALSO BUILT ONE OF THE GREAT JETS THE LAST TO COME OUT OF THE CALVERTON NAVAL WEAPONS PLANT.  IT WAS THE" F-14 TOMCAT" ONE OF THE GREATEST FIGHTERS EVER BUILT. LIVING ON LONG ISLAND DURING THE COLD WAR AND SEEING THESE JETS SCREAMING AROUND BEING TESTED WAS GREAT! BUT THE END OF THOSE DAYS WAS APPROACHING FAST AND BY 1995 ALL THE GREAT AIRCRAFT MFG'S HAD CLOSED FROM LACK OF CONTRACTS. GRUMMAN BEING THE LAST TO CLOSE IN, 1994-5 CALVERTON CLOSED- THE FOOTAGE SHOWS THIS PROTOTYPE F-14 FLYING OVER THE  NEW LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY ,THEN THE PILOT AND BACKSEATER PUNCHES OUT AND THE PLANE GOES DOWN INTO THE WOODS WITHOUT ANYONE BEING HURT. IT SEEMS THAT ONE OF THE PARACHUTES GOES DOWN ON TO THE BURNING WRECKAGE BUT ITS JUST A CAMERA ANGLE, THIS OCCURRED DURING THE 1970 TEST FLIGHTS THIS FOOTAGE IS SILENT AND FILMED BY A CHASE PLANE ( A-6 PROWLER/INTRUDER) AND WAS HIDDEN AWAY FOR MANY YEARS.
CALVERTON NAVAL WEAPONS PLANT REFERENCE
Calverton Naval Weapons Plant (CTO), Calverton, NY, was built in 1952 at the Grumman factory airfield. It was the birthplace of the F-14, A-6, E-2, etc. The plant's two runways (14/32 and 5/23) were completed in 1953. The Assembly Plant Building (Plant 6) was accepted for Grumman operations in 1954, and production commenced that same year. Also in 1954, Hangar #4 was occupied by the Flight Test Department, and Hangar #1 was occupied. In 1956 construction was completed on the Firing-In area (gun butts) and the Engine Test House. The Rotodome Test Area, used for E-2 Hawkey radar development, was completed in 1961. After Grumman was acquired by Northrop, the airfield was closed in 1996 due to cancellation of F-14 and A-6 production. The sole remaining Grumman aircraft production line for the E-2 Hawkeye was consolidated to St. Augustine, FL. The airfield property was turned over by the Navy to the Town of Riverhead in 1998. Two concrete runways still exist: 10,000' runway 14/32 and 7,000' runway 5/23. One of the Calverton hangars was used by the NTSB to reassemble wreckage of TWA B747 flight 800 that went down off the coast of long island less than 20 miles from the naval weapons plant

SEEK ATTACK DESTROY SUFFOLK AFBs SQUADRON LOGO



THE 52nd FIGHTER WING WAS COMPRISED OF THE 98th FIG (fighter interceptor group or squadron) AND THE 2nd FIS ADC  UNDER THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND DEF ENSE NETWORK AND WERE BASED AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB TO INTERCEPT SOVIET BOMBERS ON THEIR WAY TO HAMMER US TARGETS WITH THEIR NUCLEAR PAYLOAD IT WAS ONCE SAID THAT 70 PERCENT OF SOVIET BOMBERS WOULD GET THROUGH TO THEIR TARGETS I HOPE THAT WAS NOT TRUE BUT TO SEE FOOTAGE OF THESE AIRCREWS SCRAMBLE INTO THE ALERT HANGARS STILL GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS TO SEE THE NO NO NONSENSE APPROACH READY TO STRIKE OUT AND FIGHT ANY AGRESSOR FOOLISH ENOUGH TO ATTACK US  AS THEY THROTTLE UP AND OUT OF THE ALERT HANGARS(concrete bombproof hangars with no doors where jets were kept ready to fly as soon as the pilot got in) THESE INTERCEPTOR WINGS FLEW F-102 F-104 F-101 JETS THAT WERE EQUIPPED WITH NUCLEAR ARMED AIR TO AIR MISSLES, TO THIS DAY OF ADVANCED AIRCRAFT PILOTS OFTEN SAY NOTHING COMPARES TO A FLIGHT OF 102s SCREAMING IN LOW IN FORMATION. EVERY USAF WING HAS ITS PROBLEMS THERE WERE  AIRCRAFT THAT WERE DITCHED AND CRASHED AND EVEN A ARTICLE IN THE NY TIMES ABOUT SUFFOLK POLICE SEARCHING FOR A MISSING WARHEAD OFF A AIR TO AIR MISSILE WHEN THAT PLANES PILOT LOST CONTROL AND EJECTED, I DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING ABOUT THE WARHEAD BEING FOUND, ANOTHER ARTICLE RIGHT OUT OF PROJECT BLUEBOOK THE WING WAS SCRAMBLED DURING 1966 TO CONFRONT SOME UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A UFO ENCOUNTER THAT TOOK PLACE OVER LONG ISLAND AND WAS WITNESSED BY MANY LONG ISLANDERS AND WAS PART OF A BUNCH OF VERY ODD OCCURANCES TO USAF BASES NATIONWIDE, THIS WING EXSISTS TODAY IN GERMANY, AND PRESIDENT CLINTON GAVE A SPEECH IN FRONT OF THE 52nd FIS WING SHIELD WITH THEIR LOGO OF "SEEK ATTACK DESTROY" AND I AM GLAD THEY WOULD.



SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB PRIMARY SAC AIR DEFENSE COMMAND FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR GROUP USAF



ONE O'WONDERFUL VOODOO
A F-101 GETTING CHECKED OUT SUFFOLK AFB AIR SHOW EARLY 1960's 

 SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE (ADC)


By David Schoeck



This is a narrative describing Suffolk County Air Force Base when it was a prime Air Defense Command (ADC) installation in the northeast. My comments are based on personal memories of a young man who lived in nearby Remsenburg in the 1950s and later, as an Air Force officer from 1969 to 1972. I was never stationed at Suffolk, but saw many annual air shows and visited the base before it closed in December, 1969. Several Air Force historians and airmen who were stationed there contributed to this work, including Colonel Jon Myer, who flew the F101B from Suffolk in the early 1960s.
I have found no definitive history on Suffolk County AFB so far. However, it was established during WW II as a U. S. Army Air Corps base and gunnery range. Unlike its Long Island neighbors situated closer to New York City, like Mitchel Air Force Base, it had more space, longer runways, less crowded air space and room to expand.
In the early 1950s, it became the prime Air Defense Command base responsible for defending the New York metropolitan area against hostile air attack. In the 1950s, there was a real threat from the Soviet Union. ADC had three prime missions: radar surveillance (a radar squadron operated from Montauk Air Force Site [AFS] ); bomber interception by fighter interceptors and ground-to-air missile operations. I recall much of the baseís expansion at that time. Every year, new buildings were erected including the imposing ADC alert hangars. New housing went up west of the airfield in 1957, as well as many support buildings like the Commissary, Dispensary, Exchange and Non-Commissioned Officers Club (NCO) (Fabulous Rocker). Many airmen lived in nearby communities, including Riverhead, Quogue and Westhampton.



ADC MISSION AND AIRCRAFT AT SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB



Suffolk County AFB's mission was bomber interception, and for a brief period, BOMARC air defense missile operations. It hosted the F86D from 1955 to 1957, the F102A from 1957 to 1959 and, finally, the F101B from 1959 to 1969. I found a photo of an F94 assigned to the 2nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS), but am not sure if it operated from Suffolk. In 1959, former Suffolk F102As were transferred to U. S. Air Force Europe (USAFE) bases in Germany and the Netherlands. The Suffolk based 2nd FIS Squadron was one of the first ADC units to receive the F101B. The 98th FIS moved to Suffolk from Dover, DE, in the summer of 1963. It was always exciting driving past the base.
In the late 1950s, only the military was flying supersonic jet aircraft like the all-weather capable F102A Delta Dagger or "One-O-Wonderful" F101B Voodoo. The nicknames were usually applied to the air and ground crews, using the "Voodoo" theme: "One-Oh-Wonder" for the pilots, "Scope Wizard" for the Radar Intercept Officers (RIOs, later called Weapon System Officers/WSOs or "Whizzos), and "Witch Doctors" for the maintenance guys. They were a formidable sight, whether taxiing past the alert hangars or taking off in formation.
I have several vivid memories:

Great air shows. The first was in the late 1950s. The base operated the F102A then, but there was a variety of Military Air Transport Service (MATS) transport and Strategic Air Command (SAC) aircraft on display, including a KC97 and new KC135 tanker. My father (a WWII Air Corps vet) had a nice chat with the KC97 pilot on the tanker's evolution from the B29. The second great air show occurred on Labor Day, 1965, when Colonel Francis Gabreski was the 52nd Wing Commander. He was signing autographs under the nose of an F101B. Gabreski is one of the U. S.'s top aces from both WWII and Korea. The Thunderbirds put on a splendid show with F100s. One did a barrel roll low over the field. I have not seen this in any of their performances since. They also were giving rides in a Ford Trimotor.

The F101B was big (longer than a DC3) and its powerful twin J57 turbojet engines made a
unique sound during takeoffs and landings. From Remsenburg could always hear them taking off on afterburners. One day I was at a gas station about a mile west of the runway when one came over at less than 1000 feet. The attendant (who must have been in a daze) almost jumped out of his socks! Voodoo formations often came in low, over Tiana Beach and woke up lots of sunbathers. The F-101B/F was 70 ft., 11 in. long; the F-102 "Dagger" and F-106 "Dart" were also about 70 ft. long. The "unique sound during takeoffs" was the double-afterburner "boom-boom" from each bird as the tailpipes were "set on fire"
While on active duty I met several guys who had been stationed at Suffolk. They all enjoyed the assignment, particularly during the summer

COUNTY AFB52ND FIGHTER WING AT SUFFOLK


Air Defense Command was a key component in the Air Force structure in the 1950s and early 1960s and Suffolk's 52nd Fighter Interceptor Group (FIG) and Wing played an important role. From an organizational standpoint, ADC squadrons usually operated as self sustained units on bases controlled by other commands, like SAC. There were exceptions where ADC operated the base and a Fighter Wing (FW) with two squadrons; the 78th Fighter Wing at Hamilton AFB, California and the 52nd at Suffolk. The 52nd FW was comprised of the 2nd and 98th Fighter Interceptor Squadrons, from 1963 to 1968. Col. Gabreski was the commander from 1964 to 1967. The 2nd FIS "Horny Horses" were in residence during the entire period when Suffolk was an ADC base, from August 1955 to September 1969. The 5th FIS was active from August 1955 to February 1960 and the 98th was at Suffolk from July 1963 to September 1968.From September 1968 until the base closed in 1969, the 52nd was again reduced to a group level organization (52nd FIG). After Suffolk closed, the 2nd FIS operated F106A/B at Wurtsmith AFB from 1971 to 1973. The squadron came back a third time at Tyndall AFB Panama City, Florida in 1974 as the 2nd Fighter Intercepter Training Squadron (FITS); the F101 and F106 training squadron. It was redesignated in 1983 as a Tactical Fighter Training Squadron under the 325th FW; AETC flying F15 RTUs. The 98th FIS never returned to active duty after it was inactivated at Suffolk, on September 30, 1968.
The 52 FW was inactive until 1971, when it relocated to Spangdahlem AB, Germany, It now operates F16, F15 and A10s that were in the "Allied Force" in Kosovo. Their web site notes only the "modern era" starting in 1971, so I am not sure if any detail on its assignment to ADC exists. During the Kosovo air war, when President Clinton was at Spangdahlem, he spoke under the 52nd emblem (Seek, Attack, Destroy), which is identical to its display on Suffolk interceptors. ADC downsized rapidly in the late 1960s, when the threat and mission changed from manned bomber to missile attack and requirements for the Vietnam War. Many former ADC pilots became close air support drivers and Forward Air Controllers (FAC) in Vietnam.
By 1968, I had visited several bases, like Eglin, Wright-Patterson and was assigned to Plattsburgh for AFROTC field training. Suffolkís facilities seemed more temporary than the others did. This was due to ADC receiving less funding than SAC, Tactical Air Command (TAC) or overseas commands. In his autobiography, Col. Gabreski said that when he reported to Suffolk in 1964, "I found the base quite a shock. The equipment - the 52nd was flying F101B Voodoos at the time - was great, the people were great, but the facilities were meager". Jon Myer, a former Suffolk F101 pilot said that the 98thís squadron building was a converted missile maintenance building requiring much "self-help" to make it serviceable. The 2ndís operations building wasnít bad at all, as they had inherited the "permanent" facilities of the departed F-102s (Deuces).
I was at Sheppard AFB, in September 1969, when I read in the "Air Force Times" about Suffolk's closure. Shortly after reporting to McGuire AFB I drove to Long Island and visited the base on December 1, 1969. The F101Bs had transferred to the Maine Air National Guard (ANG) and other operations were winding down rapidly. The base theater, called "Broadway East", had a sign saying the final performance was to be presented on December 7th. I stopped at the Visiting Officers Quarters (VOQ) and a bored attendant said there were no rooms available. Six months later, it was deserted, except for the New York Air National Guard (NYANG) who were flying C97s. Incidentally, the 132nd FIS of the Maine Air National Guard (ANG) at Bangor (called "Maniacs") flew Voodoos from 1969 until 1976.



THE F101B/F



Many former Suffolk "birds" went to the boneyard, after 1976. F101s were not used as drones, like the F102 or F106, as they had more difficult handling qualities and a tendency to "pitch up". Jon Myer said that this "tendency" was due to the birdís design with a high "T" tail (like many airliners today, in fact), but the "pitch-up" itself was usually pilot-induced. If the pilot pulled back on the stick too much for the speed (i.e. exceeded safe angle-of-attack limits or g-forces for the airspeed), the wing surface could blank out the air flowing over the elevator surfaces and render them useless for control. The "pitch-up" that then ensued rendered the aircraft uncontrollable unless corrective action was taken: relax back pressure on the stick (positively move it forward to neutral position or beyond) while pulling the throttles out of burner (if they were in after burner [A/B]) and deploying the drag chute to help realign the aircraft into its relative airflow.



Done correctly, the aircraft would maintain a nose-low attitude, though it might snap roll (if one wing resumed "flying" before the other). However, it would become controllable again as the airspeed built back up (from near zero). The drag chute would fail at approximately 250 knots. The pilot was advised to attain 350 knots (to be sure controllability was restored) before attempting any maneuvers except to fly home carefully and, of course, try to avoid a no-drag chute landing.
There were three warning systems aboard the aircraft to prevent or warn against pitch-up: the autopilot's control stick limiter (CSL, if auto pilot (A/P) was engaged, which required 60 lbs. of force to override); a warning horn half a "g" later; and a 28 lb. control stick "pusher" a bit after that (though we turned that off for low-level flight as it, too, could malfunction). However, a ham-handed pilot, especially if a bit rough on the rudders while horsing back the stick, could pitch up despite all of these cautionary measures. One crew did exactly that: they lost the plane in the ocean, however, both crewmen got out okay and were picked up by a U. S. submarine.
All in all, during its era, the F-101B/F was the best of the Century Series Interceptors, despite its limitations (pitch-up risk, not as fast as the F-106, not as maneuverable as the Deltas, and higher fuel consumption in max A/B). Its combination of relative reliability, two-man crew, then-unrivalled acceleration and electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) features all made it the "bird to commit" when the intercept was tough, i.e. in night/weather/Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) conditions. After a couple of Interceptor Improvement Program (IIP) mod packages were retrofitted in 1964-65, all three interceptor types had a tunable magnetron (against slow tuning noise jammers) and an infrared search and track subsystem (IRSTS). This was most useful at low altitude when radar returns were obscured in ground clutter or if ECM obscured the target at higher altitudes. The F101 and F106 got added anti-chaff features and an exceptionally fast-tuning magnetron installed, which helped avoid (or "burn through") most noise jammers in their frequency band.


 After the Air Force closed the base, it was turned over to Suffolk County. The New York Air National Guard (106th Group), then flying C97 cargo aircraft, took over the ADC alert portion of the field. The remainder of the airfield was eventually used by general aviation.

BOMARC COFFINS WITH MISSILES IN FIRING POSITION SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB

SUFFOLK COUNTY AIRPORT AND NYANG BASE

The NYANG history notes that the 106th Group relocated from Floyd Bennett Field to Suffolk Airport in 1970. Their website does not have much detail on when Suffolk was an active base. However, after their C97s were retired, the 102 FIS operated the F102A from 1972 to 1975. Thus, for the three-year period, Suffolk again assumed its air defense mission. The current rescue mission started in 1975. Currently, the 106th Rescue Wing, composed of NYANGís HC130s and HH60G Pave Hawks, operate from part of the former ADC base. This unit gained fame in a recent best selling book, "The Perfect Storm", in which one of their Pave Hawks was involved in a dramatic rescue in high seas. A Discovery Channel "Air Wings" program on pararescue men or "PJs" features interviews with several of the 106th aircrew who were involved in the "Perfect Storm" rescue.
The remainder of the field is used for general aviation and was renamed Francis Gabreski Suffolk County Airport, several years ago. Many former Air Force buildings, not used by the NYANG or general aviation, have only recently been torn down. The Coast Guard uses some of the remaining base housing.
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THE DEFENSE OF GOTHAM NUCLEAR NIKE/HERCULES SITES "THE LONG ISLAND ROCKET MEN"

Defending Gotham
Nike Missile Defenses of the
New York Metro Area, 1954-1974

THE RING OF STEEL IS WHAT THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REGARDED THE NIKE AND HERCULES SITES AROUND NYC THE LONG ISLAND
SITES IN SUFFOLK COUNTY GUARDED THE MANY CRUCIAL SITES THAT WERE CRITICAL TO THE NATIONS DEFENSE, SUCH AS GRUMANN NAVAL AIRCRAFT WEAPONS FACILITIES, REPUBLIC-FAITRCHILD AIRCRAFT MFG BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB KEY TO MANY ABOVEGROUND THERMONUCLEAR TEST DATA RESEARCH AND RADIOLOGICAL FALLOUT RESEARCH ON AGRICULTURE ,ETC THE HUNDREDS AVIATION COMPANIES THAT BUILT RADAR ,AVIONICS, ELECTRONICS, THAT SUPPORTED THE BOOMING COLD WAR AIRCRAFT MFG ON LONG ISLAND, THE TRI STATE NYC AREA WAS A VERY CRUCIAL AREA WITH REGARD TO THE NATIONS MILITARY AND ALSO ITS LARGE POPULATION THAT NEEDED TO BE PROTECTED FROM SOVIET BOMBERS AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE. EACH BLUE SPOT WAS A NIKE FACILITY THEIR BASE NUMBERS ARE LISTED BESIDE THE DOT AND CAN BE CHECKED OUT AT THE LINK BELOW
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bender/NYsplash.htmlNIKE MISSILE SITES OF LONG ISLAND,NYC & TRI STATE AREA

1956 CIVIL DEFENSE MORTUARY SERVICES FLOW CHART FCDA



MORTUARY SERVICES POST ATTACK



MARYLAND CIVIL DEFENSE ATTACK WARNING

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MARYLAND STATE CIVIL DEFENSE ATOMIC PROPAGANDA




MARYLANDS TAKE ON THE ATOMIC MINUTEMEN

 



FALLOUT FROM DC ON ITS WAY THROUGH MD / DE/ NJ/ NY







THIS MAP IS PROBABLY MORE GOVERMENT LIES SINCE THE AMOUNT OF TESTING ABOVEGROUND BY THOSE IN THE NUCLEAR CLUB FROM 1945 - 1975 LEFT ENOUGH FALLOUT IN THE BODIES BONES,THE OCEANS,AND RIVERS, AND THE ATMOSPHERE THAT MIMICS WHAT A MEDIUM NUCLEAR EXCHANGE WOULD OF DROPPED,OUR GOVERMENT USED US ITS POPULATION TO SHOW THE RESEARCHERS WHAT BIRTH DEFORMITIES AND CANCERS WOULD BE POPPING UP IN YEARS TO COME, BEFORE ATMOSPHERIC TESTING CHECK OUT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR CERTAIN CANCERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN ATOMIC DEVICES THE CANCER CLUSTERS IN TOWNS DIRECTLY DOWNWIND FROM THE NEVADA TEST SITE ALSO WHY DID THEY SUSPEND TESTS WHEN THE WINDS WERE BLOWING TOWARDS LOS ANGELES OR VEGAS OR PHOENIX AND OTHER LARGE POPULATION CENTERS?WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO REMEMBER PLAYING IN THE FALLOUT AS CHILDREN AS IT FELL LIKE SNOW COATING EVERYTHING AND SUFFERED MISCARRIAGES AND CHILDREN BORN WITH RARE HORRIBLE DEFORMITIES? THE ONLY REASON NOBODY BRINGS IT UP IS THE PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE DEAD FROM VARIOUS CANCERS AND DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH RADIATION POISONING?

"THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST ARE DAMNED TO REPEAT IT"

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Mount Weather


High Point Special Facility (SF)

Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center [MWEAC]

Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations

Berryville, VA

703-542-2287
In the best-selling 1962 book Seven Days in May, the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot a military coup against a US president about to sign a nuclear arms control agreement. The conspiracy involves an emergency exercise at a place called Mount Thunder, a secret bunker where government leaders would go in the event of a nuclear attack. Authors Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II provide rather detailed driving instructions to get to the fictional Mount Thunder, which closely match those used to drive to the real Mount Weather. Although the bunker at Mt. Weather did not become widely known until more than a decade later, the thinly disguised portrayal of the facility in Seven Days in May demonstrates that the fact of the existence and the location of the facility was already known by the early 1960s.

The Mount Weather Special Facility is a Continuity of Government (COG) facility operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The 200,000 square foot facility also houses FEMA's National Emergency Coordinating Center. Located on a 434 acre mountain site on the borders of Loudon and Clarke counties, the above ground support facilities include about a dozen building providing communications links to the White House Situation Room.

The site was originally acquired by the National Weather Bureau, which named it the Mt. Weather Observatory, to launch weather balloons and kites for upper air research. Kites equipped with meteorgraphs were used as atmospheric probes in the late 1890s. From 1893 until 1933, the Weather Bureau maintained a system of stations from which kites were flown at regular hours when the winds permitted. The world's altitude record for a kite was claimed by the US Weather Bureau, with the ascent of a kite to 23,111 ft [7,044 meters] on 3 October 1907 at Mt. Weather. On 05 May 1910, the station on Mt. Weather launched a string of ten kites carrying meteorological instruments. The total area of this "train" of ten kites amounted to 683 square feet, and the uppermost kite rose to an altitude of 23,835 feet. In order to accomplish this feat, over 8-1/2 miles of thin wire were needed for the line.

During World War I there was an artillery range at Mount Weather, and Calvin Coolidge reportedly talked about constructing a summer White House at Mount Weather. During the Depression Mount Weather was reportedly a work farm of some description, though there is no indication that it served as a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. In 1936 it passed to the Bureau of Mines, which bored a short experimental tunnel less than 300 feet beneath the mountain's crest to test new mining techniques.

Based on a favorable evaluation of the hardness and integrity of the mountain's rock, the Bureau began construction of the facility's tunnels in 1954, which were completed by the Army Corps of Engineers under the code name "Operation High Point."

In 1954, a few high-level officials, assuming several hours warning of a hypothetical attack, left Washington with a check list of possible actions. They assembled in a cave [probably the Mt. Weather construction site]. Water was dripping from the ceiling and oozing from the walls. This was the setting for the first Operation Alert exercise. The exercise lasted only a few hours, but a great deal was learned, believe it or not.

As of July 1958 there were some 90 relocation sites in the seat of Government arc from 30 to 300 miles of Washington, and over 300 relocation sites through-out the country for regional and field offices. The arc was connected with an interagency communication system, which was reasonably adequate and was in the process of further development. A few highly secure relocation sites for central direction and for the protection of central communications had either been constructed or were under construction as of mid-1958.
The Army Corps of Engineers completed the "Area B" underground complex in 1958-1959. Total constuction costs, adjusted for inflation, are estimated to have exceeded $1 billion. Tunnel roofs are shored up with some 21,000 iron bolts driven 8 to 10 feet into the overhead rock. The entrance is protected by a guillotine gate, and a 10 foot tall by 20 foot wide 34-ton blast door that is 5 feet thick and reportedly takes 10 to 15 minutes to open or close.

The underground bunker includes a hospital, crematorium, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, reservoirs of drinking and cooling water, an emergency power plant, and a radio and television studio which is part of the Emergency Braodcasting System. A series of side-tunnels accomodate a total of 20 office buildings, some of which are three stories tall. The East Tunnel includes a computer complex for directing emergency simulations and operations through the Contingency Impact Analysis System (CIAS) and the Resource Interruption Monitoring System (RIMS).

An on-site 90,000 gallon/day sewage treatment plant and two 250,000 gallon above-ground storage tanks are intended to support a population of 200 for up to 30 days. Although the facility is designed to accomodate several thousand people (with sleeping cots for 2,000), only the President, the Cabinet, and Supreme Court were provided private sleeping quarters. For Continuity of Government purposes, senior officials are divided into Alpha, Bravo and Charlie teams -- the first remains in Washington, the second relocates to Mount Weather, and the third disperses to other relocation sites.
The complex was prepared to assume certain governmental powers at the time of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The first full-scale activation of the facility came on 9 November 1965, at the time of the great Northeastern power blackout. The installation used the tools of its Civil Crisis Management program on a standby basis during the 1967 and 1968 urban riots and during a number of national antiwar demonstrations.

In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency [FPA] stated that "Studies conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and management of domestic political unrest where there are material shortages (such as food riots) or in strike situations where the FPA determines that there are industrial disruptions and other domestic resource crises."

On 01 December 1974, a TWA Boeing 727 jet crashed into a fog-wrapped mountain, killing all 92 persons aboard. Journalists who covered the crash site noticed fenced US government facility nearby. Within days, The Washington Post reported that the facility was known as Mount Weather, though The Post quoted a spokesman for the Department of Defense as saying he was not allowed "to comment on what Mt. Weather was used for ... or how long it has been in its current use."
According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hearings in 1975, the Congress had almost no knowledge and no oversight--budgetary or otherwise--on Mount Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty to describe precisely what is the role and the mission and the capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise location."

General Bray did give the Senate Subcommittee a list of the categories of files maintained at Mount Weather: military installations, government facilities, communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, medical and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, population, housing shelter, and stockpiles.
In March, 1976, The Progressive magazine published an article entitled "The Mysterious Mountain." The author, Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on the Senate subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials formerly associated with Mount Weather." His report, and a 1991 article by Ted Gup in Time Magazine entitled "Doomsday Hideaway", supply a few compelling details about Mount Weather.

The FEMA training center was established in 1979 at "Area A" on the surface of the facility. By the late 1990s between 800 and 1,200 people worked at the emergency assistance center, making it the agency's largest facility. Hundreds of other public and private officials attend training sessions at the above-ground center every year.

The Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center has transitioned from a single mission to one that supports the all-hazards mission of FEMA and, simultaneously, it became a self-supporting cost center that derives its income from the Working Capital Fund authorized by Congress. The Fiscal Year 1997 Appropriation Act authorized FEMA to establish a working capital fund for providing administrative services. A fund was established to support the centralized services provided by the Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center (MWEAC). The facility, over a two year period in 1997 and 1998, transitioned to a fully operational mode for the Working Capital Fund. It provides office, conference, training, and billeting accommodations at Mount Weather for use by FEMA organizations and other Federal agencies. While operations are being funded based on current appropriations, collections, and usage, FEMA is aggressively marketing the facility to attract new users. All organizations at Mount Weather, including FEMA components, were subject to the provisions of the Working Capital Fund beginning in FY 1998.

Since the 1993 restructuring, population explosion occurred at Mount Weather, moving from a daily work force of about 400 employees, to one of more than 900. Approximately 250 new Cadre of Oncall Response and Recovery Employee (CORE) positions were added that did not exist in 1993. Conference and Training Center (CTC) activity also expanded dramatically, from fewer than 6,000 students/attendees in 1993, to more than 18,000 in FY 1996. More than 100,000 persons were guests at Mount Weather during 1996. The Conference and Training Center at Mount Weather handles some 10,000 students per year for one-week courses, a number comparable to the approximately 10,000 students trained each year in residence at the National Emergency Training Center in Emittsburg, Maryland.
Mount Weather is currently home to six major disaster operations facilities including the:
■National Processing Service Center–Virginia

■Satellite Teleregistration Center

■Disaster Finance Office

■Disaster Information Systems Clearinghouse

■Disaster Personnel Operations Division

■Agency Logistics Center

Today, even in small emergencies like flooding, a lot of the coordination is going through Mount Weather. Ever since the Cold War ended, they have been ordering service for the whole country on the smaller disasters. A snow storm on January 13, 1997 closed the NTC in Denton, TX. The Mount Weather Emergency Assistance Center took 100 percent of the calls that day. The West Side Teleregistration Service Representative personnel of Buildings 704 and 712 took a total of 2,254 calls with an average wait time of only 12 seconds.

Mt. Weather is currently home to eight major FEMA functional groups:

The Virginia National Processing Center (VNPSC) is one of three FEMA Processing Service Centers nationwide. Its mission is to assist individuals impacted by disasters to begin the recovery process. Each Center's phone banks receive countless first calls for assistance from victims in the aftermath of disasters. Each claimant is provided a fast, efficient, and caring response.
The Disaster Finance Center (DFC) provides centralized financial management services for FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund. These services include disaster cost projections, payment of disaster expenses, and production of financial statements and related reports. The DFC is a division of the Office of Financial Management and has a full-time staff of about 80 people and a surge staff that varies in size, depending on disaster activity.

The Disaster Information Systems Clearinghouse (DISC) operates a storage and recycling center that provides centralized control and deployment of all computer and communications equipment necessary to support disaster declarations.

The Disaster Personnel Operations Division (DPOD) is a part of the Office of Human Resources Management and is responsible for personnel management in support of disaster response. The division recruits, selects, and supports employees that fill temporary positions at FEMA's fixed facilities and other offices throughout the U.S. In addition, the division maintains National Cadres of Disaster Assistance Employees and maintains FEMA's Automated Disaster Deployment (ADD) system.

The Agency Logistics Center (ALC) provides centralized inventory management for three territorial logistics centers that deploy material and supplies necessary for FEMA's response to disaster declarations.
The Conference and Training Center (CTC) provides training facilities to support FEMA training activities as well as other federal agency training and conferencing. The CTC offers nearly 35,000 square feet dedicated to classroom training and currently averages 32,000 student days of training per year.
The Information Technology Services Division (ITS) provides computer and communications support for FEMA's all-hazards emergency response mission. The Information Technology Service Center (ITSC), which is located at Mt. Weather, is responsible for providing 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week help desk for users of FEMA’s information systems during declared disasters. At other times, the ITSC operates 16 hours a day. The ITSC is responsible for taking reports on and processing suspected or actual network security problems, and notifying the ESM and appropriate system/network administrator immediately following the reported incident.
The Mt. Weather Management Division works operates and maintains the Mt. Weather EAC by providing basic services such as: electrical power, water, transportation, health care, fire service, security, and facility maintenance. The Division's activities enable all resident and tenant organizations to concentrate on accomplishing their primary missions.
Following the September 11th terrorist attacks, it was reported that "House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other top leaders of Congress were taken to the safety of a secure government facility 75 miles west of Washington." ["Member of Congress condemn attacks," By James Jefferson, The Associated Press, 11 Sept 2002]. It was also reported that "Top congressional leaders were sent to a secure government facility 75 miles west of Washington. They returned Tuesday evening." ["Secret Service takes leaders to secure locations as government responds to attacks," By Laura Meckler, The Associated Press, 11 Sept 2002]. Route 601 [also called Blue Ridge Mountain Road] leads to Mt. Weather. One reporter traveling this road the afternoon of September 11th found "a traffic jam of limos carrying Washington and government license plates and even a motorcade led by eight Harley Davidson U.S. Park Police." ["Things That Go Bump In The Night At Cheney's Cave," by Paul Bedard White House Weekly December 4, 2001].









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Sources and Resources

■Mount Weather by Albert LaFrance

■Mount Weather @ FEMA

■Pollack, Richard, "The Mysterious Mountain," The Progressive, March 1976, pages 12-16.

■Emerson, Steven, "America's Doomsday Project," US News and World Report, 7 August 1989, pages 26-31.

■Walters, Robert, "Going Underground," Inquiry, 2 February 1991, pages 12-16.

■Royce, Knut, "COG in US Nuclear Wheel," Baltimore News American, 2 May 1983, page 1.

■Gup, Ted, "Doomsday Hideaway," Time, 9 December 1991, pages 26-29.

■Gup, Ted, "The Doomsday Blueprints," Time, 10 August 1992, pages 32-39.

■"Still Digging Cold War Bunkers," by Bradley Cook The St. Petersburg Times Friday, May 15, 1998





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THE COLD WAR COMMUNICATION MASTERS

The Bomb Alarm System,



the Thule B-52 Crash of 1968


...and a Very Long Phone Line

Thanks to J. Jason Wentworth for contributing this fascinating tale from the Cold War


The Bomb Alarm I know about was actually accidentally triggered once, and I will share the story about this with you. A late friend of mine, Gary Moore, worked at the Bell Telephone Company in Miami between 1957 and 1967. After leaving them in 1967, he worked for Federal Electric Corporation at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland from late 1967 to 1969. He worked in the submarine cable building, where the cable came onto the base from the sea. The Bomb Alarm cabling passed through the building. There was also a large equipment cabinet associated with this cabling that Gary would sometimes use as a bed for catnaps during long shifts.

In 1968, a B-52 on airborne alert carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed just offshore near the base. It narrowly missed the submarine cable building. Gary saw the plane crash on the ice and explode, followed by four other blasts that were the high-explosives in the H-bombs going off.

At the moment of the crash, he was talking with his parents in Miami over an illegal direct telephone link he had set up with the help of friends and other people at several telephone companies between Miami and Greenland. This establishment of this link is a story in itself! He estimated that he made about $50,000 worth of free, illegal calls over the link.
At the time there was only one outgoing "Morale Line" available on-base, and the waiting line to use it was *very* long. Gary and his friends established the direct link partly for the challenge, just to see if they could get away with it. Gary "paid" several people at the intermediate Canadian and US telephone companies by selling them cameras and audio equipment he could buy at the base PX for much less than their prices in the US and Canada. These US and Canadian telephone company employees patched together various unused cable pairs (plus a few microwave links) along the ~5000 mile route between Miami and Thule. Friends of his at Bell Telephone in Miami installed a dedicated drop line from his telephone pole to his house and installed a hidden switch box in the pantry. This would ring the kitchen telephone when he called his parents (his family all lived together in his home).

While he was talking with his parents the B-52 crashed, and the whole base immediately received a message ordering all outgoing base communications to be shut down. He only had time to tell them, "A bomber just crashed near here! I have to get off the line right now, but I'm okay. I'll talk with you when I can. Goodbye."

What Gary didn't know at that moment was that the B-52 had hit the Bomb Alarm cable outside, which caused an erroneous nuclear detonation alert to be sent to the US! For some time before outgoing communications were re-established, SAC thought that Thule Air Force Base had been hit with a nuclear bomb and went to a heightened state of alert. Gary's parents saw the story on the news that night ("Communications with Thule AFB lost") and feared the worst.
The aftermath is equally interesting. From his station in the submarine cable building, Gary was able to listen in on outgoing communications as well as on-base communications. He heard several telephone calls in which base officers were talking with their colleagues in Washington, discussing how to "get their stories straight" for the subsequent investigation so that they could cover their posteriors. It turns out that an extra (seventh) body was found near the crash site, cut in half at the torso. The B-52 airborne alerts had become routine by 1968, and apparently someone had been allowed aboard the B-52 for a "joy ride" during this flight. This was of course strictly against policy, so the officers involved with the B-52 operations had to practice classical "CYA" tactics to save their careers and avoid possible prison sentences.
Gary recorded several of these conversations with the idea of writing a book about the incident. He was preparing to mail the tapes to his parents in Miami. He let a friend of his, an Air Force Major, hear the tapes, and he advised Gary to erase the tapes. He said, "Military Airlift Command is the only way in or out of Thule for mail and cargo. If they find your tapes and discover what you've recorded, they'll make sure you vanish and aren't found until the Spring thaw!" This scared Gary, so he dutifully erased the tapes.

That B-52 crash also directly resulted in the creation of the Poker Flat Research Range www.pfrr.alaska.edu , a sounding rocket launch facility located 50 km north of where I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Defense Nuclear Agency had been planning a series of high-altitude barium release tests to be launched from Greenland in 1969. The "Ban The Bomb" sentiment was running high in the Danish parliament at that time, and after the B-52 crashed they forbade any nuclear-related testing on Danish territory.
The Defense Nuclear Agency desperately needed a high-latitude launch site for their sounding rockets, and they decided to set up a temporary range at Poker Flat. Professor Neil Davis of the University of Alaska Fairbanks had been trying to establish a sounding rocket range at Poker Flat for several years, and he persuaded NASA to let him launch his sounding rockets at Poker Flat. After his initial missions, he was able to get NASA to continue supporting the range, which is owned by the UAF (it's the only university-owned sounding rocket range in the world). Thus the Poker Flat Research Range was born.





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For more information about this incident and its repercussions, see:

The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (Chapter 4)

by Scott D. Sagan

BELL SYSTEM AND WESTERN UNIONS TELETYPE MACHINES WERE THE  WORK HORSES OF THE COLD WAR BOTH WERE HEAVILY RESPONSIBLE FOR  GUIDANCE SYSTEMS ON ROCKETS TO RADIO FREQUENCYS FOR SUBMARINES SUBMERGED THE COLD WAR PROVIDED A NEED FOR COMUNICATION NETWORKS AND THESE COMPANYS WERE RESPONSIBLE AND WERE ABLE TO INVENT BETTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY WAS A NUMBER ONE NECESSITY DURING THE 1950s-1970s THESE SYSTEMS HAD ALOT OF RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE  DURING ATTACK LAUNCH COMMANDS AND BOMBER CREWS GOT CORRECT INFO DURING  EXERCISES AND IF NEED BE ATTACK.

YOUR GOVERMENT WILL SURVIVE A FULL SCALE NUCLEAR STRIKE (THE NATIONAL WAR PLAN)

THE NATIONAL PLAN CONTINUTY OF GOVERNMENT THESE PLANS WILL BE PUT INTO MOTION UPON CONFIRMATION OF A SOVIET NUCLEAR EXCHANGE- A LOT OF PROPAGANDA ON HOW YOUR GOVRNMENT HAS A PLAN TO TAKE CARE OF YOU FOOD,SHELTER,MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND ITS GOING TO BE RUN OUT OF MAGIC OUNTAIN....I MEAN MOUNT WEATHER MAGICAL INDEED THIS GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ON LIFE POST ATTACK IS A FAIRY TALE AND THE FACT THEY MADE A BOOKLET ON HOW THE NATIONAL PLAN  WILL SWING INTO ACTION SUSPEBDING UNTEREST RATES AND PRICES ON CONSUMER GOODS AND HOW SHELTERS WILL BE MASE AVAILABLE BLAH BLAH BLAH MARKED 1958 I GUESS THERE WERE SOME REALLY FAR OUT THINKERS WHO ACTUALLY THOUGHT GOVERNMENT WOULD BE RESTORED POST ATTACK IS  A PIPE DREAM ! THE GOVERNMENT 50+ YEARS LATER IN MODERN DAY AMERICA COULDNT EVACUATE A CITY DESTROYED BY A HURRICANE LEAVING PEOPLE TO  WAIT ON ROOFS AND SHELTERED IN A STADIUM THAT WAS OVERWHELMED SO BADLY THE DEAD FLOATED THROUGHOUT NEW ORLEANS FOR A WEEK OR MORE THE AGENCY IN CHARGE OF GETTING PEOPLE TO SAFETY AND OPEN SHELTERS AND PROVIDE NATIONAL/STATE HELP CRASHED< AND THEY HAD TIME TO PREPARE IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU MUILTIPLY THE CITIES AND GIVE AN HOUR WARNING  TO GET HELP OUT TO PLACES DESTROYED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS, LIKE I SAID THEY COULDNT PULL IT TOGETHER AND THEY HAD OVER A DAY TO STAGE AND SETUP AND IT TOOK DAYS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO GEt THERE AND AID THE SURVIVORS I WOULDNT BE DEPENDING ON THE NATIONAL PLAN  OR THE GOVERNMENT.

LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY BUILDS BUNKER TO RIDE OUT AN ATOMIC WAR, (1950s) HICKSVILLE LI



LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY THE POWER UTILITY THAT PROVIDED POWER TO LONG ISLAND FROM THE FIRST LIGHTED HOUSE, DURING THE COLD WAR REALIZATION CAME TO MANY SMART BUISNESSES THAT A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON AMERICA EVEN A EMP (not a wildly known byproduct of a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear device)WOULD WIPE OUT RECORDS MOST IMPORTANTLY FINANCIAL RECORDS OF WHO OWES WHO ETC,  STORAGE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF COMPUTERS USING REEL TO REEL MAGNETIC TAPE TO STORE INFO OR MICROFILM EVEN THIS COULD BE DESTROYED IF A WEAPON WAS DETONATED CLOSE OR A HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE AREA WOULD PROHIBIT GETTING TO RECORDS,LILCO DECIDED EVEN WITH STORING RECORDS THEY NEEDED A COMMAND CENTER DEEP UNDER GROUND AND REINFORCED SO EMERGENCY OPERATIONS COULD BE CARRIED OUT, LONG ISLAND WAS A TARGET FOR STRONG DAMAGING HURRICANES THAT KNOCKED DOWN THE PUBLIC UTILITY'S LINES AND POLES AND BLIZZARDS AND ICE STORMS WERE ALSO COMMON AND THE GOVERNMENT KEPT URGING AMERICANS BUILD SHELTERS OR FIND A PUBLIC ONE TO USE, THE CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCIES AND OTHERS PREDICTED A NUCLEAR EXCHANGE WOULD TAKE PLACE BEFORE 1970 AND PREPARATION WAS KEY, LILCO WENT UNDERGROUND AT THEIR HICKSVILLE LI BASE AND BUILT THEIR COMMAND BUNKER THAT IS STILL UNDER THE BACK WING OF THE MAIN BLDG. IF YOU RIDE THE LIRR ON THE RONKONKOMA LINE ITS ON THE RIGHT GOING IN TO NYC, LILCO WAS AHEAD OF THEIR OTHER POWER COMPANIES AND IMPORTANT BUISNESSES THAT NEEDED THEIR RECORDS AT THE TIME IT WAS BUILT IT WAS STATE OF THE ART -GENERATORS,AIR PURIFYING FILTERS KEPT RADIATION OUT, HAM RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, AND RATIONS AND FIRST AID BELL WESTERN DID THEIR HARDENED PHONE SYSTEM AND SAW AN OPPURTUNITY FOR BOTH LILCO AND BELL BY BRAGGING IN A ADVERTISEMENT IN ALL THE MAJOR MAGAZINES ABOUT THEM BOTH BEING READY FOR ANY OUTCOME LILCO NOW CALLED NATIONAL GRID REPLACED THE DARK YELLOW AND BLACK /RED TRUCKS WITH WHITE WHEN THEY WERE FORCED TO ABANDON THE NUCLEAR POWER GENERATING PLANT IN SHOREHAM AFTER ALMOST 20 YRS OF BUILDING RAN IT WITH CONTROL RODS AND GENERATED POWER FOR A COUPLE HOURS THEN IT WAS CLOSED PARTIALLY DISMANTLED AND AUCTIONED OFF IN THE 1990s , LILCO COULD NOT ABSORB THE LOSS OF THE PLANT AND HANDED OFF THE COMPANY TO BROOKLYN GAS-NATL GRID. THEY STIL USE THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS BUNKER.



THE BOMARC MISSILE SUFFOLK COUNTY AFB (65 miles East of NYC)

THE BOMARC MISSILE WAS ONCE PART OF THE USAF SIXTH AIR DEFENSE NETWORK ON THE EAST COAST NYC AREA HAD TWO USAF BASES EQUIPPED WITH BOMARCS MACGUIRE AFB NEW JERSEY AND SUFFOLK AFB LONG ISLAND NY, THE LATTER SITE NOT FAR FROM MY HOME WAS A FAVORITE HAUNT WHEN I WENT URBAN EXPLORING COLD WAR SITES THE SITE SOUTH OF WHAT IS NOW CALLED GABRESKI AIRPORT OR AIRBASE SINCE THE 106th RECOVERY AND RESCUE PJs ARE DEPLOYED THERE AND ARE THE PRIMARY RESPONSE TEAM IF ANY SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH IS ABORTED THEY ARE THE GUYS THAT WOULD PICK UP THE SHUTTLE CREW, AND ALSO THE SQUADRON WAS THE RESCUE TEAM THAT DITCHED THERE HELO DURING THE "PERFECT STORM" AND LOST MEN DURING A MISSION THAT WENT BAD, BEFORE THAT SUFFOLK COUNTY AIR FORCE BASE OPERATED OUT OF THE AIRFIELD FROM THE LATE 40s THROUGH THE EARLY 70s PART OF THE "SAC" NORTHEAST AIR DEFENSE NETWORK THAT DEPLOYED INTERCEPTOR SQUADRONS OF f-104/106/102 AND THE VOODOO 101 INTERCEPT AIRCRAFT THESE AIR WINGS WETRE PARTED OUT TO MINOT AFB IN THE EARLY 70s AND SOME WENT TO S. VIETNAM AND GERMANY THE BASE HAS A f-106 DELTA DART AT THE FRONT GATES AND A JOLLY GREEN RESCUE HELICOPTER, THE CONCRETE ALERT HANGARS ARE STILL THERE AS ARE THE RUNWAY ALERT AIRCRAFT STAGING SPOTS ALSO THERE ARE SOME HEAVY ORDNANCE STORAGE BUNKERS THAT MOST LIKELY HELD NUCLEAR TIPPED AIR TO AIR MISSILES TO BRING DOWN SOVIET BOMBERS AND SOME NUCLEAR ORDNANCE WAS MOST LIKELY STORED THERE, BUT SOUTH OF THE BASE THE BOMARCS WERE QUIETLY INCORPORATED ON TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE BASE, STORED IN SHEDS THE ROOFS WOULD SLIDE OPEN AND THE MISSILE WOULD COME TO ITS FIRING POSITION AND LAUNCH- HERE IS A LITTLE MORE BACKGROUND ON THE MISSILE


Boeing and Michigan Aerospace Research Center (MARC)



BOMARC, The missle site in Westhampton was operated by the 6th Air Defense Missle Squadron of the USAF Air Defense Command (ADC). It was operational with the first version of the BOMARC missle, the BOMARC A, from 1959 through 1964. The base has 56 missle shelters. Each missle was armed with a 10-Kiloton nuclear warhead. The former missle site is currently used by Suffolk County as a police training facility, motor vehicle impound lot and archives.

THIS ARTICLE BELOW RAN IN A LOCAL PAPER  AND DESCRIBES THEIR ARRIVAL TO SUFFOLK AFB (it also talks about the US Army Missile Sites West of the base that housed the NIKE/HERCULES Nuclear ground to air missile system)

The base was transferred to the county after its closing and has been used as a firing range for police, an impoundment yard for vehicles and for storage of old equipment and county records. .

To get some background on the BOMARC base, I went to Google, putting in the words BOMARC and Suffolk. Among the first websites listed was that of the New York State Military Museum which related: “BOMARC, the missile site in Westhampton was operated by the 6th Air Defense Missile Squadron of the USAF Air Defense Command. It was operational with the first version of the BOMARC missile, the BOMARC A, from 1959 through 1964. The base has 56 missile shelters. Each missile was armed with a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead.”

 http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/fortsA_D/bomarc.htm



What was that? “Each missile was armed with a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead.” The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the TNT equivalent of 13 kilotons.
There were further details on other websites. They told of how the mission of the BOMARC base in Westhampton—and BOMARC bases set up all over the nation—was to blast Soviet bombers from the sky. Why use nuclear-tipped missiles? That way a direct hit need not be made. Once a BOMARC missile came close to the Soviet bombers, the atomic weapon on its tip would be detonated and destroy not one but part of a formation of bombers.

A November 21, 1958 front-page article in the New York Times (downloadable from the New York Times’ online archive) was headlined: “Riverhead Missile Base to Get Bomarcs With Nuclear Warheads by ’60.” It began: “The Suffolk Bomarc Base, ninety miles east of New York City, will be equipped with anti-aircraft missiles carrying nuclear warheads. The missiles, which have a range up to 250 miles, will be launchable from the site near Riverhead, L.I.” There would be 56 Bomarc missiles “at the ready.” The article spoke of there being, a day earlier, a “press conference by Army and civilian engineers” and “Air Force and Boeing Airplane Company specialists” at which these “experts confirmed that the Bomarc base would soon be fully operational atomically.” The story further noted: “No special provisions have been made for atomic hazards; they are not needed, the engineers said.”



Curiosity led me to information on the Nike bases I knew were set up on Long Island around the same time. BOMARC was an Air Force project and its acronym combined the names of its developers: BO for Boeing and MARC for Michigan Aerospace Research Center. Nike was an Army missile program and named for the mythical Greek goddess of victory.



There are numerous websites about the Nike bases established on Long Island and elsewhere in the U.S. and how the Nike Hercules model was nuclear-tipped—with bases on Long Island armed with nuclear-tipped Nikes including those in Rocky Point, Amityville, Lido Beach, Oyster Bay and Lloyd Harbor. While a main reason for the BOMARC base in Westhampton was to intercept Soviet bombers headed to New York City, the Nike bases were primarily set up to defend facilities on Long Island considered strategic, among them, according to the New York State Military Museum website, Brookhaven National Laboratory and military industrial facilities including the then Grumman Corp. and Republic Aviation factories.



There were three types of Nike nuclear tips: “low-yield” 3-kiloton; “medium yield” 20-kiloton; and “high yield” 30-kiloton
I put together an article for Long Island newspapers on the metal scavenging project at the ex-BOMARC base and referred to some of the history of nuclear-tipped missiles on Long Island. Editors inquired: how could this be? If these nuclear-tipped missiles were detonated over and around Long Island, wouldn’t there be impacts to people on the ground? Absolutely. We would have had warheads with vast explosive power—comparable to and greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb—detonating all around us, spreading deadly radioactive fall-out.

With all the violence of recent years—and our concerns of violence ahead—we should give thanks that somehow we got through this Cold War atomic nightmare.
1951 Jun 1, 1951 - The initial USAF unit assigned to Suffolk County AFB was the Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Fighter-Interceptor Wing (103 FIW), which was federalized and brought on to active duty on 1 June 1951. Its 118th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron flew F-47N ...


From Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base - Wikipedia, the free … - Related web pages

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1952 Oct 16, 1952 - The squadron left Presque Isle on 16 October 1952 and was reassigned to Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, where the squadron remained for three years before returning to Presque Isle.

From 75th Fighter Squadron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Related web pages

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1956 May 1956 - My chosen profession was as an Air Traffic Controller in the Air Force. I re- enlisted in May of 1956 and was promoted to T/Sgt when I was Chief Controller and Station Chief at Suffolk County Air Force Base on Long Island.

From Joe D Gibson - Related web pages

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1957 Aug 14, 1957 - The nursery of the Suffolk County Air Force Base at Westhampton, L.' 'L, will gain from the annual Hampton Night Ball on Friday evening. The dinner I dance will be given on the Marine Deck of the Bath and Tennis Club in Westhainpton Beach. Proceeds of the event will be used for ...

From HAMPTON BALL FRIDAY; Dinner Will Benefit Suffolk County Air Base ... - Related web pages

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1958 Feb 20, 1958 - Police departments in towns near the Suffolk County Air Force Base were alerted tonight to look for a possibly live warhead on a Falcon air-to-air missile. The -in.ch and yellow warhead has been unaccounted for since 8:10 AM when an explosion and fire deStroyed a supersonic F-102A ...

From WARHEAD OF MISSILE IS SOUGHT IN SUFFOLK - Related web pages

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1963 Apr 11, 1963 - However, on 11 April 1963, the wing was redesignated and activated as the 52d Fighter Wing (Air Defense). Stationed at Suffolk County AFB, New York, from 1 July 1963 - 30 September 1968, wing aircrews flew F-101 Voodoos.

From Spangdahlem AB History
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1966 Oct 29, 1966 - HAUPPAUGE, L. L, Oct. 28 -Suffolk County Police received over 80 calls last night reporting brightly colored unidentified flying objects over Long Island's South Shore. At the Suffolk County Air Force Base at Westhampton Beach, an Air Force spokesman said the base had received many ...

From Suffolk Reports More UFO's - Related web pages

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1967 Oct 31, 1967 - Cabby's last duty assignment was as Commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at Suffolk County Air Force Base at Westhampton Beach, New York. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski was retired from the United States Air Force on 31 October 1967 after 27 years of ...Cabby's last duty assignment was as Commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at Suffolk County Air Force Base at Westhampton Beach, New York. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski was retired from the United States Air Force on 31 October 1967 after 27 years of dedicated and heroic service to his country, and certainly one of the nation's most decorated, colorful and respected warriors. Gabby was subsequently inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio. As ...

From The Inner Seven - Related web pages

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1969 1969 - In 1969, Suffolk County Air Force Base in Westhampton Beach was closed, but with the help of the Suffolk County Legislature, became the new home for a new unit mission related to aerospace defense.

From Welcome to the First Aero Company - Home Page

www.firstaero.org/



1971 Dec 31, 1971 - On 31 December 1971 the 52d Tactical Fighter Wing was transferred from Suffolk County AFB, NY to Spangdahlem. Upon activation in Germany, the 52d possessed two tactical squadrons: * 23rd Tactical Fighter (F-4D Blue Tail Stripe, Code: SP) * 39th ...On 31 December 1971 the 52d Tactical Fighter Wing was transferred from Suffolk County AFB, NY to Spangdahlem. Upon activation in Germany, the 52d possessed two tactical squadrons: * 23rd Tactical Fighter (F-4D Blue Tail Stripe, Code: SP) * 39th Tactical Electronic Warfare (EB-66 Yellow Tail Stripe, Code: SP ..

From Spangdahlem Air Base at AllExperts - Related web pages




THANKS to Bill Geerhart over at the blog "Conelrad Adjacent" and his website"Conelrad.com" his contributions of cold war history and propaganda is priceless and appreciated and "karl Grossmans" blog for the long island history- thanks shelter_6

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND 1960s PART 2 AUTHORIZATION TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN COMBAT

"SKYBIRD THIS IS DROPKICK"

THE SECOND OF 3 USAF FILMS THAT DETAIL THE WAR FOOTING SAC OPERATED ON 24/7 YEAR ROUND AND HOW THE USAF FIGHTS A NUCLEAR WAR FROM THE UNKNOWN BLIPS THAT THE EARLY WARNING RADARS PICK UP THE BALLISTIC MISSILE EARLY WARNING STATIONS TRANSMITTING LAUNCH OR GO CODES TO EVERY USAF BASE IN THE WORLD AND THE CREWS SCRAMBLING TO GET AIRBORNE IN NUCLEAR WEAPON ARMED B-52s THE INTERCEPTORS SCRAMBLING TO  REPEL ENEMY AIRCRAFT INBOUND THE ICBM CREWS CONFIRMING CODES AND ORDERS VIA PRIMARY ALERTING SYSTEMS HOW WELL THESE SYSTEMS MESH AND WORK TOGETHER TO GO TO WAR AT ANY TIME, THIS FOOTAGE IS GRADE A AND ONE OF THOSE FILMS THAT REALLY SHOW A TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY AS IMPORTANT AS THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THE WAR OF 1812 THE CIVIL WAR, THIS IS ON FILM AND CAN BE SHOWN GENERATIONS FROM NOW, HOW A WORLD PLANNED TO INCINERATE ITSELF OVER FEAR OF DIFFERENT POLITICS AND FEAR.

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (1959) LAUNCH ON WARNING

                                            

PRODUCED BY THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THIS THREE PART FILM GOES OVER THE ENTIRE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND'S NUCLEAR PLAYBOOK FROM ATTACK WARNING ALL THE WAY TO ENEMY WEAPON'S CONFIRMED YIELD, THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THIS FILM IS NOT TOLD FROM THIRD PARTY SOURCES IT IS STRAIGHT FROM THE USAF AND GOES INTO DETAIL ABOUT WAR PLANS ,HOW NUCLEAR CONFIRMATION IS CONDUCTED, THE MANY DIFFERENT WEAPONS THE USAF USES, HOW WELL IT IS PROTECTED AND THE EXTREME'S THE USAF WILL GO THROUGH TO DEFEND THE UNITED STATES AND TO DELIVER COMBAT READY NUCLEAR DEVICES ON TARGET ON TIME WITH FAILURE TO DO SO NOT A OPTION.

THIS FILM IS GREAT SINCE EVERYTHING SHOWN IN THIS VERY DETAILED FILM IS NOT ACTING IT IS TOLD BY THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE USAF AS THEY ARE CONDUCTING DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS AND IS A RARE LOOK BACK IN HISTORY.

Atomic Warriors

GENERAL, CURTIS "iron pants" LeMAY ,USAF General LeMay took the United States Air Force into the future from prop driven aircraft to supersonic jet bombers, Known for his brash attitude he was quoted as saying he would like to" Nuke The Soviet Union Back To The Stone Age"
and if asked would of gladly did so, He perfected the use of NAPALM in the end days of World War Two By Creating the biggest Firestorm of the war on Tokyo. Targets like Factories became scarce since the Japanese hid their factories among their living areas So he sent hundreds of aircraft in and Firebombed the City of Tokyo killing over One Hundred Thousand Civilians and then compilied a list of Japans 20 most populated cities and went down the list flying in low and dropping the then new formula of jellied Gasoline on the wooden ,bamboo cities these attacks killed thousands more, The initial Attack on Tokyo killed more people than both Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and is considered the deadliest bombing in World War Two. Later Estimates put the toll at 220,000 His Creativness would have gone unmatched had he had the chance to use the weapons at his disposal  as the General of The Strategic Air Command, He was all in favor of a Pre-Emptive Strike on the Soviet Union Claiming they will soon attack us and claimed the Cuban Missile Crisis was the United States Greatest Military Defeat, Since his Advocacy to hit Cuba first was not the tactic the Kennedy White House went with, He was part of a lot of historical missions that advanced his rank while serving in the military,One was the Berlin Airdrop that fed starving germans at the end of World War Two as Russia blockaded the city, and held many Flying Records for Distance and Speed. His tactic using the Box Formation for optimum gun coverage on Flying Fortresses that were bombing german Industrial targets saved many air crews he also flew missions over Germany during World War Two and earned the nickname of "bombs away LeMay" his Brutal Attitude was famous as he threatened to court martial any bomber crew that aborted a mission and swore he would be in the lead bomber on these missions, the rate of aborted bomb runs fell off drastically. One story has the General approaching a Heavily fueled B-47 with his trademark cigar lit, When a guard suggested his cigar may cause the fuel to ignite and jet to explode he replied "It wouldn't dare"

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (THE IRON FIST)

THE IMPORTANCE OF FILMS LIKE THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND FILM HERE IS MORE THAN JUST A KEEPSAKE OF WHAT WAS IT IS A STATEMENT OF WHEN PEOPLE OF THIS NATION UNDERTOOK ALL MEANS POSSIBLE TO GUARANTEE OUR WAY OF LIFE FROM NATIONS SO PARANOID THAT THEY WILL NOT ALLOW THEIR COUNTRYMEN TO VOTE FREELY OR GATHER IN GROUPS FOR FEAR OF LOSING CONTROL, THE COLD WAR IS BUT A VERY BRIEF TIME IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY BUT A VERY IMPORTANT TIME . THE WORLD AT WAR PRODUCED A PROCESS THAT CAN BE USED IN PEACE FOR ENERGY,MEDICINE, AND FOR WAR ONCE THIS TECHNOLOGY WENT IN THAT DIRECTION OUR WAY OF LIFE BECAME MORE IMPORTANT SINCE THIS TECHNOLOGY IN THE WRONG HANDS WOULD DOOM THIS PLANET AND ALL LIVING THINGS ON IT, IT WAS A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL A NATION ONCE AN ALLIED WITH US AND THEN BECAME THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF US DEVELOPED THEIR ATOMIC REACTION AND THEN WEAPON AND WE BORROWED A TERM FROM THE AUTHOR OF 1984 GEORGE ORWELL THAT MEANT WHAT WAS OUR CURRENT STATUS AND THAT WAS THE "COLD WAR".

THE LATE 1940's THROUGH 1989 WHEN THE SOVIETS STARTED TO DISMANTLE THEIR WALL IN BERLIN AND OPENED UP TO THE WORLD, BEFORE THAT THE ONE PROTECTOR OF OUR NATION AND THE HAND THAT WOULD LASH OUT AND STRIKE ANY NATION  WHO WANTED A FIGHT WAS "THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND" SAC THE US AIR FORCE, THIS MILITARY BRANCH WAS ON COMBAT DUTY OR ALERT STATUS AT ALL TIMES DURING THE CHRISTMASS DINNERS YOU COULD REMEMBER THEY WERE FLYING ARMED BOMBERS WAITING FOR A GO CODE, WHEN YOU CELEBRATED THE NEW YEAR MEN SAT HUNDREDS OF FEET UNDERGROUND AT THE CONTROLS TO LAUNCH MORE EXPLOSIVE POWER THAN ALL THE BOMBS IN WORLD WAR TWO, WHILE YOU TANNED AND ENJOYED THE BEACH THEY WERE 8 MILES ABOVE FREEZING DIRECTING A REFUELING PROBE INTO A SPY PLANE THAT MONITORED A POSSIBLE NEW WING OF BOMBERS THAT COULD MORE ATOMIC WEAPONS TO DROP ON YOUR TOWN YOUR STREET, THESE MEN AND WOMEN VOLUNTEERED YOU SAY, BUT ITS MORE THAN THAT SOME RECOGNIZE THE NEEDS THAT HAVE TO BE MET AND STEPPED UP TO DO THE JOB. WE EXSIST TODAY DUE TO A BIG PART FROM THE AGENCY DEPICTED IN THIS FILM THESE COLD WARRIORS KEPT IT EXACTLY THAT COLD AND THE REASON WE KNOW THAT IS WE ARE ALL STILL HERE AND DURING THAT PEROID NOT ONE NUCLEAR DEVICE ACCIDENTLY WENT OFF WAS FIRED OR DROPPED AND THAT IS WHAT YOU WILL COME TO UNDERSTAND AFTER WATCHING THIS FILM. 

FALLOUT SHELTER

                                                       

 FSDOD1 THE COMMON FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN IN NYC YOU CAN FIND THEM ON EVERY BUILDING ,IN STAIRCASES,BASEMENTS,and EVEN A BANK VAULT OR TWO, GROWING UP AROUND AND IN NYC SEEING THE OLD GREEN STEEL WATER BARRELS AND BISCUIT TINS AND SANITATION KITS AND AS TIME WENT ON MORE AND MORE BUILDING SUPERS WOULD HAVE A ROLLOFF DUMPSTER SETUP OUTSIDE THE BUILDING AND THEY WOULD FILL IT WITH WHAT THE US GOVERNMENT HAD STOCKED IN THEIR BASEMENT THIS HAPPENED THROUGH THE 1970'S AND 80'S I CAN REMEMBER COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL AND ME AND A FRIEND HAD TAKEN SURVIVAL BISCUITS AND WE WOULD SNACK ON THEM AND DRINK ICED TEA, I ACTUALLY FOUND THEM TASTY, THE CANDY THAT WAS IN SOME SHELTERS WAS HORRIBLE! GO FIGURE? THERE ARE SOME PLACES IN AND AROUND NYC THAT ARE STILL STOCKED AND I HOPE TO POST SOME PICTURES OF THESE PLACE

Dear MOM............(the lost postcards of the atomic era)

Dear Mother,
            I just had to show you one of the air bases the president has put me in charge of its a great place ! And behind those people is one of my new bombers made to carry the mark 5 series atomic weapon into combat, geez, the Pentagon just keeps ordering more ever since that whole cuban thing last month, i promised that i would nuke those commies back to the stone age and by god i can do it! also mother your suite at the Strategic Air Command Bunker is almost finished and i need to know what paint color you decided on and carpet so please get back to me ASAP! Well i gotta oversee my airborne alert flights operation (those commies over at the Kremlin are scared witless of the B-52 series of bombers) we kinda fly close to their airspace and i need to be around in case i have to nuke the soviet union to a cinder, codes you know! love ya mom!
                                         Your Loving Son,
                                     General Curtis LeMay, USAF

Dear Mother - Lost Postcards of The Atomic Warrior

Dearest Mother,

               Well i am settled in here at Offut AFB and on the other side of this postcard is the future of atomic weapons! The Strategic Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and it can fly over to those Godless Cretins in Russia and carry multiple warheads that can go to other cities! Nikita You can run but you will just die tired! ha ha! just a little air force humor. The joint chiefs of staff claim Bombers will be obsolete! ain't that something mother,Just when i am finally closing the bomber gap!Damn technology!Its kinda hard to be in control of so many weapons,Most think the President is in charge of the ole nuclear dropkick option. its godlike having the power to smite a country of atheists who are unholy Communist Heathens  at will and i am sure the good lord will be calling upon my services in the near future and i will be ready to lay that land of atheist mongoloids into a smoking waste,Excuse me Mother for sounding harsh and i am sorry if i sound angry, but since Cuba went to hell i am just ready to snap.Enough politics. On a good note your suite here at Offut AFB down in the command & control Bunker is waiting, some of the non-coms call it the hole, and it will probably stick unfortunately, but your decorators have prepared a beaut of a place for you and father,and i assure you this is the safest place to be in a shooting war. I sincerely hope you can talk him out of riding out a nuclear war in the Fallout Shelter in the basement!Geeez the rooskies hate me so much they have a target package for our entire neighborhood and our house is Ground Zero!so please have him call me and talk some sense into him,gotta run mother going over to Turkey to oversee the removal of some Rockets work work work!

                           Your Loving Son,

                               General Curtis LeMay USAF

C/O Offutt Air Force Base
GCL ADJUTANT
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND(PRIORITY)
COMMAND AND CONTROL SUBLVL 11a
BELLVUE, NEBRASKA, 70799-USAF