My dad was MMS 22 years. I remember a few times that we had to drive dad to work, mom needed the car or something. We had to stop the car X number of feet from the 12 foot chain-link fence with barbed wire rolls that ran along the top The AP guards, OMG, fully dressed out and ready to defend along their K9 soldier who walked in front of them. At this location the AP's were positioned every 20 feet or so. At that time, I didn't know who to fear more the missiles or the AP and K9's ha ha. I just know that all us BRAT's (dependent kids) would be mischevious around the base even the flight lines but boy oh boy never the MMS areas. We wouldn't even think it. Cool-headed-est calm power that could melt you w just a look was an MMS daddy. ha Love you dad, RIP. Salute!
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting video. Interesting to see all that again. I did missile duty at Whiteman AFB from 83 to 84. I had been stationed in England before that and couldn't wait to get back to USAFE. I thought SAC was over rated. Everything you did was on a checklist. Your performance was rated on how well you performed on that checklist. Missile duty was by far the worst assignment I had in a 22 year career. I actually watched the 1983 movie "The day after" from a Launch Control Facility. Surreal.
Note Smith and Wesson 4" barrel (K-Frame) .38 Special revolvers. Either an S&W Model 10 Military and Police or S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. It was the Air Police who originally had the Colt AR-15/M-16 rifle which replaced the older M-1 carbine. During this same era the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corp. and possibly the Coast Guard had the M-14 rifle: caliber 7.62mm NATO/.308 Winchester. The latter was eventually phased out in Vietnam around 1966 by then executive order of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara
@@Forensource FBI bought a lot of 10mm guns after that debacle in Miami in 1986. Google the 1986 Miami Shootout. On 11th April 1986. The responding officers were using revolvers against guys in body armor with AK's.
BECAUSE OF YOU, I WALK THE LINE -- Johnny Cash Being a SAC old-timer, I understand the significance of the foregoing gerund phrase "walking the line." I vividly remember the seemingly interminable periods of being "on the hump", exposed to either "Big Red" or "The Hawk." 🤫
I was a Sr. Fsc at Bravo one LCF, F E Fukkem (Warren) AFB, Wyo; We had 120 rnds back in '87. Camper Crews were Dicks. The damn Outer Zone's would register blowing snow as an 'intruder'.. All that authenticating with codes and crap... incessant! No wonder I smoked two packs a day when they opened up a silo for maintenance. Glad I'm not there anymore. God Bless the Sad Sacks whom maintain them still! (❤❤❤❤)
In '64 when I enlisted, I had enlisted under the Mechanical career field ( no guaranteed jobs back then). When the flight graduated we were all made security police except two, they were made cooks. Hated that job.
Yup, signed up to be a photographer, was made a Cop and sent to Guam. Pissed me off, there were eight of us from BMT sent to Cops, one cook, one crew chief, but the rest of my fight went to clerk typists.
@@WootTootZoot weird hearing you oldies being assigned jobs at BMT. I went in as a guaranteed RF/SATCOM Ground Rat before I went to BMT. There were definitely guys in my flight who went in undecided and got jobs assigned (and yeah lots of them became cops). It seems like a lot of you older vets experienced a whole lot more unknowns than us GWOT guys.
@@rawhides Super late reply, but this is still common in the USMC. You might sign for one thing, but at the end of recruit training you might be surprised like I was lol
Things changed a lot from when this video was filmed until I was was stationed in the 352 MSS at Whiteman AFB in 89'. 54 rounds? WTF? We carried 180 rounds.The convoy configuration changed a lot. we had 4 fire teams on the ground and one in the air with a US Marshal leading the way. The NDA was enforced differently as well.
I was LE, but I pulled security from time to time. Basic load for the M16 was 120 rounds. For our sidearm (M9 Pistol), it was 30 rounds. (And Bruce Steele, yeah, we shot rabbits too - but we brought out own weapons for that: .177 caliber pellet guns. Lol.)
I was in north Dakota and drove past one of the sites that was being maintenanced. I can't remember the number of armored vehicles and crew served weapons, but it was about 6-8 vehicles. This didn't include the humvees and other assorted vehicles. I didn't notice any aircraft, but seriously, you don't want to test these guys. Just keep driving.
351st SMW and 351st OMMS 81-83. "SAC trained killer", Coldest of the Cold Warriors. Lol those were the days when Reagan was prez and the Russians feared us.
Movie right on target. Thanks kaseykasum😉 i spent 6 years missile security "elite of the usaf". 1974-75 minot nd alpha flight. 1981-1983 ellsworth sd commando flight. 1984-1987 whitema mo flying tiger flight. All good people. We were on a constant war footing 24hrs a day 7 days a week. Stress was always high, you screw up once you were out!
@@TheRipper5418But he was on war footing, 24/7. Betta ya no Navy seal knows how to check an 1199 charlie. As long a he scrubbed out the pottie while on camper alert, he is fine.
I knew I recognized the narrator's voice from somewhere. Did Casey Kasem have an AF pedigree somewhere along? Now, I wonder what after mentioned Priority "A" cargo could ever possibly be,...Hmmmmm?
At Fairchild both the Alert Area, Tanker Alert Area and Weapons Storage Area all had signs stating Use of Deadly Force Is Authorized, we as Security Police did not have to seek the permission to use such force as it was displayed on signs posted very one hundred feet on the perimeter, this sign was separate but immediately below the restricted area signs and in red capital letters.
I caught that too...?? I do know I was on BAF (42 man), in civilian sector, not on the military installation @Plattsburgh AFB, NEW YORK. We had orders not to fire untill permission received, but No HOT Munitions. Running a HOT Load like they are...game on....Use of Deadly Force Authorized.
I was assigned to Fairchild when it was a SAC base. We were called Air Police and didn't need permission to shoot. Any violation with regard to nuclear weapons or positive control material was fair game. Never had any problems in four years.
Did he say 48 hour tour? After the post cold war draw down, we were so short handed, we went to a 10 day cycle. Day 1 post out. Days 2, 3, 4 posted. Day 5, recovery. Day 6 , 7 and 8 possible time off, unless you hold critical cert like FSC, and you are needed to back fill a flight that is short. Day 9, commanders option day/training day, unless they need post out early. Day 10, appointment day (training, do up dispatches for KCCC). It was a temporary schedule put in place in 1993. In 2009, we were still in that temporary schedule. People would volunteer for deployments just to get a break.
You are SO RIGHT. I was assigned to Minot's missile field 1994-2002. They have it ALOT better today. Nuke bases are now 100 percent manned and are 4 year controlled tours. And they get EXTRA PAY for working in the missile field. Just a "few" of the Benefits they get today that WE DIDN'T GET. They are Really Spoiled today.
@@atmidnight8740 Longest I worked in the field was 21 days straight. Started that cycle on 9/11, worked 21 days, came home for 3 days, then back out. All ART's and MFT's were mobile at all times, with only one team at a time coming in for re-fuel, food, or change over. MCC crews convoyed out and back under escort. Amazing, just before 9/11, we were so short, he we had a waiver from 20th to have one ART cover two flight areas, and then sister LCF night ART would also cover the same two flight areas , as long as a MFT was posted at one of the LCF's. Threcon Delta is only designed to last for short periods of time, measured in hours. We were in Delta for two months (if I recall). Then Charlie for many, many months. It was a bitch.
@@danoarmstrong2597 It WAS a Bitch!! 23 straight days for me, I remember that Very Well because I got in trouble for sending a "fax" to the orderly room (Commander got it) during those 23 days LOL. We were short people for years due the post 1991 Gulf War draw down. I joined in 1982 when Reagan was building up the military. After the Gulf War the Air Force manning levels went from a 600,000 person force to about 350, 000 person force. Almost CUT in Half!! We worked all 3 squadrons and would have to "borrow" people from other flights to fill post every time we traveled out to the field.
I was a SSgt @ FE Warren AFB not happy with my assigment after 5 years overseas. I was a Flight Security Controller 1977-80. I could not leave fast enough.
Great video! Spent 4 years as a MCCC/Flight CC and WCP Emergency Actions Controller for INDIA flight, 510SMS, Whiteman AFB MO. Brings back a lot of great memories from what turned out to be the best assignment of my 22+ years on active duty.
As a former FSC, Fire Team Leader, and Wing Security Controller, there is more than enough missing information so that anyone couldn't circumvent the system, even then. I am surprised to see a film with this much information though. Grand Forks AFB 321/2 MSS 1983-1992.
I have heard stories that Security Police had to respond to a remote missile site because a rabbit had got inside the fence and tripped the alarm. Also, getting to a site in a blizzard was no fun either!
That is true. Several Security Police who worked the Missile Alerts have told of these stories. One troop in particular, got into a bit of trouble when he started trapping the varmints and then hung them from their ears along the perimeter fence line....
Had a rabbit sitting straight up on the blast door at Ellsworth. Tossed my mag light at it and it didn't budge. Frozen solid. The exhaust grate for the SSB was a good place to find animals in winter as it was warm air coming out. Rest in peace Senior Airman Donald Heitkamp Airman First Class Barry Holmes Staff Sergeant Charles Huskey
I spent a year at Lackland - went to Crypto school in the building with no windows. Our incentive was to pass all tests, if not we were sent to SP dog school. This was in 1969 when the dog school graduates were sent to Vietnam or DEW sites.
I thought a Deputy U.S. Marshall accompanies the convoy and is the one who officially designates the National Security Area as temporary Federal property from the outside and the SF provides security on the inside?
I hated those damn blue bippys! Along with regular fatigues, bright name and Air Force tapes, bright stripes and your honest to God SP Badge makes this from sometime in the mid to late 70s.
And now it's time for the long-distance dedication. The letter reads: Dear Kasey, The Soviets have it pretty rough. It's cold over there! So we here in the United States wanted to bring some warmth and sunshine, if only for a brief moment. Kasey, it would really mean a lot if you could play, "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" by Timbuk3. From a couple of lonely missile men in South Dakota, Thanks. Gentlemen, I can't think of a better way share the feelings of all Americans. Here's your long-distance dedica... Hey, hold on... what's that... that bright flash? It's coming from the North. Oh, God!! Tzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
I don't remember looking so young as a Buck & Staff.....here today the don't have Bucks anymore. Bucks & Staffs was the the Team Leaders in my Day......don't know "especially how" they don't have Bucks anymore.
91st MSS, Minot AFB (1975-79).FOXTROT Flight Area. 1976 was the year Security Police started wearing blue berets. The sign at Minot AFB Main Gate read: "Only the Best Come North". We did not carry a .38 sidearm. An M-16 and 120rds of ammo, and gas mask😅
@@jarheadshooter6452 we were 804 sps then Sac said you will now be 321fst combat support Grp. Major Gebara was the Sps officer. I was one of the first helicopter Sat team leaders flew convoy support an responded to the nuc field for situation 6's.
Question - Why would SAC give the USSR the exact coordinates (at least the bases themselves) if they want maximum defense? (It's hard to believe the KGB doesn't have this)
81150.....380th, 4011 MUNS (overseas), Plattburgh AFB SAC New York, (overseas-location undisclosed 18 months), Loring AFB SAC, Maine ('78-'84...Honorable 9/84) I "Walked the Line"
76 - 80 6931st Iraklion Crete Greece and 1608 th. Kirtland AFB Albuquerque NM Yup we looked just like that. Old Viet Nam era crap gear. Glad I didn’t go to one of northern SAC bases. BRRRR. The guys are so much better trained and equipped now.
Thanks for serving. USCG Port Security/Force Protection 91-96 D8 MS, LA, & TX w/a little TDY in Seattle. I was reading here on TH-cam the other day that today's AF SPs aren't the cream of the crop like in this and your day, that it's the enlistees with the lowest of ASVAB scores who are "guided" into SP duty. I didn't misread/misunderstand. I hope the commenter was wrong...
@@baronedipiemonte3990 It’s true you don’t need a high score to get AF Security. Keep in mind it’s not a highly skilled job like electronics or some sort of aircraft maintenance job. But still a big responsibility and the biggest career field in the Air Force. Not all bases have jets and missiles but every one of them has Security Police /. Security Forces as it’s known now. And they are much better trained and equipped now than in my day back in 1976 -80. Thank you for your service as well.
"generaL you asked for my opinion" after these missiles have sat underground for 5 years the circuits are totally unreliable, it will be a miracle if we get one off the ground. "
jeez looking at Modern Missile Security and seeing this Makes me think is SPETSNAZ Wanted to Sabotage the Missiles these guys would get horribly murdered and nobody would have a clue not i Get body Armor Wasn't exactly common in the 80's but NO Armor Driving around in a Soft Skinned Truck... "Da comrade We gonna Clap some cheeks today"
You got 3 x 20 round magazines. If you fully loaded the mag with 20 rounds, the weapon was prone to jam. The solution was to load only 18 rounds in each magazine resulting in the 54 round basic load.
Casey Kasem narrating a video about SAC and ICBM's? Now that's what I call a "long distance dedication"!
He probably got paid more for narrating this video than I got in my full 4 years in.
🤣🤣
😄😁😆😅🤣😂
I had the same exact thought 🤣
@@michaelhewitt258
I like these old videos. Calm, methodical and logical. Excellent 👍
It’s nice hearing his voice again. We lost a great radio personality.
My dad was MMS 22 years. I remember a few times that we had to drive dad to work, mom needed the car or something. We had to stop the car X number of feet from the 12 foot chain-link fence with barbed wire rolls that ran along the top The AP guards, OMG, fully dressed out and ready to defend along their K9 soldier who walked in front of them. At this location the AP's were positioned every 20 feet or so. At that time, I didn't know who to fear more the missiles or the AP and K9's ha ha. I just know that all us BRAT's (dependent kids) would be mischevious around the base even the flight lines but boy oh boy never the MMS areas. We wouldn't even think it. Cool-headed-est calm power that could melt you w just a look was an MMS daddy. ha Love you dad, RIP. Salute!
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting video. Interesting to see all that again. I did missile duty at Whiteman AFB from 83 to 84. I had been stationed in England before that and couldn't wait to get back to USAFE. I thought SAC was over rated. Everything you did was on a checklist. Your performance was rated on how well you performed on that checklist. Missile duty was by far the worst assignment I had in a 22 year career. I actually watched the 1983 movie "The day after" from a Launch Control Facility. Surreal.
The meals at every LCF I went to had excellent food. A shout out to the chefs!
Loved Casey Kasem listing the cities with the ICBM bases.
Vito How they get CK to do this?
@@studinthemaking wasn't casey himself, an air force veteran who served during the korean war ?
I'm waiting for him to say ..."And now on the Top 40!"..lol
I get it Mr. Casey
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars
Note Smith and Wesson 4" barrel (K-Frame) .38 Special revolvers. Either an S&W Model 10 Military and Police or S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece. It was the Air Police who originally had the Colt AR-15/M-16 rifle which replaced the older M-1 carbine. During this same era the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corp. and possibly the Coast Guard had the M-14 rifle: caliber 7.62mm NATO/.308 Winchester. The latter was eventually phased out in Vietnam around 1966 by then executive order of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara
1980S COPS CARRIED THE cOMBAT mASTERPIECE
@@Forensource Until they got shot at with AK47's by folks in body armor in Miami...
@@hithere7382 Huh? Crocket and Tubbs?
@@Forensource FBI bought a lot of 10mm guns after that debacle in Miami in 1986. Google the 1986 Miami Shootout. On 11th April 1986. The responding officers were using revolvers against guys in body armor with AK's.
BECAUSE OF YOU, I WALK THE LINE
-- Johnny Cash
Being a SAC old-timer, I understand the significance of the foregoing gerund phrase "walking the line." I vividly remember the seemingly interminable periods of being "on the hump", exposed to either "Big Red" or "The Hawk."
🤫
I dodged the missile wing assignment in SAC. I was stationed on March AFB 1989-1991. I loved SAC!
I was a Sr. Fsc at Bravo one LCF, F E Fukkem (Warren) AFB, Wyo; We had 120 rnds back in '87. Camper Crews were Dicks. The damn Outer Zone's would register blowing snow as an 'intruder'..
All that authenticating with codes and crap... incessant! No wonder I smoked two packs a day when they opened up a silo for maintenance.
Glad I'm not there anymore.
God Bless the Sad Sacks whom maintain them still! (❤❤❤❤)
In '64 when I enlisted, I had enlisted under the Mechanical career field ( no guaranteed jobs back then). When the flight graduated we were all made security police except two, they were made cooks. Hated that job.
Yes and the same thing happened to me. It was then called Air Police. Most boring job in the world.
Yup, signed up to be a photographer, was made a Cop and sent to Guam. Pissed me off, there were eight of us from BMT sent to Cops, one cook, one crew chief, but the rest of my fight went to clerk typists.
@@WootTootZoot weird hearing you oldies being assigned jobs at BMT. I went in as a guaranteed RF/SATCOM Ground Rat before I went to BMT. There were definitely guys in my flight who went in undecided and got jobs assigned (and yeah lots of them became cops). It seems like a lot of you older vets experienced a whole lot more unknowns than us GWOT guys.
@@rawhides Super late reply, but this is still common in the USMC. You might sign for one thing, but at the end of recruit training you might be surprised like I was lol
Another great voice back in the day. Paul Harvey. He was great to listen to. Now you know the rest of the story. Paul Harvey Good. Day.
SAC SP's guarded minuteman missiles underground behind nuclear resistant blast doors in the MidWest.
TAC Security Specialists guarded Ground Launched Cruise Missiles deployed throughout the countryside of Europe.
Air Forces Iceland, Keflavik, NAS
554th Security Support Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada
487th Tactical Missile Wing, Comiso AS, Sicily
I was in Floorenes Belgiium where we had GLCM missles as well. However, the command was USAFE, not TAC.
Loved those green uniforms.
Nice Long Distance Dedication Casey!
Things changed a lot from when this video was filmed until I was was stationed in the 352 MSS at Whiteman AFB in 89'. 54 rounds? WTF? We carried 180 rounds.The convoy configuration changed a lot. we had 4 fire teams on the ground and one in the air with a US Marshal leading the way. The NDA was enforced differently as well.
Absolutely correct Sir! This was filmed during the early to mid 1980s (nearly 40 years ago).
@@ColdWarFilms1947 Looking at the vehicles, I'm thinking early 70s
@@andrew1970able My mistake... I served in the 1980s, and we were issued 120 rounds also. This was filmed (like you stated), in the 1970s.
This is exactly what we did with the convoys at FEW when I served from 88-92.
I was 352 SP from 90-93. GLCM 87-88
When I was in Security.. We were provided 120 rounds ammo for our M-16 and 36 rounds for our sidearm.
And a secret stash for the rabbits.
Red Dawn lol
I was LE, but I pulled security from time to time. Basic load for the M16 was 120 rounds. For our sidearm (M9 Pistol), it was 30 rounds. (And Bruce Steele, yeah, we shot rabbits too - but we brought out own weapons for that: .177 caliber pellet guns. Lol.)
I was in north Dakota and drove past one of the sites that was being maintenanced. I can't remember the number of armored vehicles and crew served weapons, but it was about 6-8 vehicles. This didn't include the humvees and other assorted vehicles. I didn't notice any aircraft, but seriously, you don't want to test these guys. Just keep driving.
351st SMW and 351st OMMS 81-83. "SAC trained killer", Coldest of the Cold Warriors. Lol those were the days when Reagan was prez and the Russians feared us.
Russia didn't fear us then either. They feared mutual assured destruction as the United States did too.
Ain't that the truth,LOL
Movie right on target. Thanks kaseykasum😉 i spent 6 years missile security "elite of the usaf". 1974-75 minot nd alpha flight. 1981-1983 ellsworth sd commando flight. 1984-1987 whitema mo flying tiger flight. All good people. We were on a constant war footing 24hrs a day 7 days a week. Stress was always high, you screw up once you were out!
Ooh a commando... No Navy Seal checked an 1199, that is for sure.
@@ronniemcgill8868 He wasn't saying he was a Commando dummy. His Flight was "C" flight which they called commando flight.
@@TheRipper5418But he was on war footing, 24/7. Betta ya no Navy seal knows how to check an 1199 charlie. As long a he scrubbed out the pottie while on camper alert, he is fine.
@Brian Hallorann jealous?😘
@Brian Hallorann whats your problem brian? You dont even know me. Were you booted out for complaining?
I knew I recognized the narrator's voice from somewhere. Did Casey Kasem have an AF pedigree somewhere along?
Now, I wonder what after mentioned Priority "A" cargo could ever possibly be,...Hmmmmm?
At Fairchild both the Alert Area, Tanker Alert Area and Weapons Storage Area all had signs stating Use of Deadly Force Is Authorized, we as Security Police did not have to seek the permission to use such force as it was displayed on signs posted very one hundred feet on the perimeter, this sign was separate but immediately below the restricted area signs and in red capital letters.
I caught that too...?? I do know I was on BAF (42 man), in civilian sector, not on the military installation @Plattsburgh AFB, NEW YORK. We had orders not to fire untill permission received, but No HOT Munitions. Running a HOT Load like they are...game on....Use of Deadly Force Authorized.
I was assigned to Fairchild when it was a SAC base. We were called Air Police and didn't need permission to shoot. Any violation with regard to nuclear weapons or positive control material was fair game. Never had any problems in four years.
I was an SP at Fairchild from 83 - 85. When were you there? Never forget Alpha 9.
Did he say 48 hour tour? After the post cold war draw down, we were so short handed, we went to a 10 day cycle.
Day 1 post out. Days 2, 3, 4 posted. Day 5, recovery. Day 6 , 7 and 8 possible time off, unless you hold critical cert like FSC, and you are needed to back fill a flight that is short. Day 9, commanders option day/training day, unless they need post out early. Day 10, appointment day (training, do up dispatches for KCCC).
It was a temporary schedule put in place in 1993. In 2009, we were still in that temporary schedule. People would volunteer for deployments just to get a break.
You are SO RIGHT. I was assigned to Minot's missile field 1994-2002. They have it ALOT better today. Nuke bases are now 100 percent manned and are 4 year controlled tours. And they get EXTRA PAY for working in the missile field. Just a "few" of the Benefits they get today that WE DIDN'T GET. They are Really Spoiled today.
@@atmidnight8740 Longest I worked in the field was 21 days straight. Started that cycle on 9/11, worked 21 days, came home for 3 days, then back out. All ART's and MFT's were mobile at all times, with only one team at a time coming in for re-fuel, food, or change over. MCC crews convoyed out and back under escort.
Amazing, just before 9/11, we were so short, he we had a waiver from 20th to have one ART cover two flight areas, and then sister LCF night ART would also cover the same two flight areas , as long as a MFT was posted at one of the LCF's.
Threcon Delta is only designed to last for short periods of time, measured in hours. We were in Delta for two months (if I recall). Then Charlie for many, many months.
It was a bitch.
@@atmidnight8740 Did you know a JD Williams?
@@danoarmstrong2597 It WAS a Bitch!! 23 straight days for me, I remember that Very Well because I got in trouble for sending a "fax" to the orderly room (Commander got it) during those 23 days LOL. We were short people for years due the post 1991 Gulf War draw down. I joined in 1982 when Reagan was building up the military. After the Gulf War the Air Force manning levels went from a 600,000 person force to about 350, 000 person force. Almost CUT in Half!! We worked all 3 squadrons and would have to "borrow" people from other flights to fill post every time we traveled out to the field.
@@danoarmstrong2597 The name doesn't ring a bell, but these days I would remember a face more than a name. Lol
I was a SSgt @ FE Warren AFB not happy with my assigment after 5 years overseas. I was a Flight Security Controller 1977-80. I could not leave fast enough.
I lucked out, I was never SACumcized, I was USAFE, AFLC, and AMC
Great video! Spent 4 years as a MCCC/Flight CC and WCP Emergency Actions Controller for INDIA flight, 510SMS, Whiteman AFB MO. Brings back a lot of great memories from what turned out to be the best assignment of my 22+ years on active duty.
Ever make it to Griffiss A.F.B.?
Man they even show u how to fill out the form to penetrate the inner pad .this is one in depth video .simple as A B,C steps
As a former FSC, Fire Team Leader, and Wing Security Controller, there is more than enough missing information so that anyone couldn't circumvent the system, even then. I am surprised to see a film with this much information though. Grand Forks AFB 321/2 MSS 1983-1992.
You have t ol know more to get in, id swap, number of the day
FE Warren or Ronnie's Rocket Ranch as they called it in the 80's when I was there
We used to call it the whiney 90 or F me running AFB
@@bobsnyder3309 FE Burnem.
I was with the 90th mss at FE WARREN 74 to 76 my site was O1 in Nebraska
F.E. Warren AFB. I was there in 1979 - 1982. Then January 1985 to June 1986. Windy and snow. Every July, Cheyenne Frontier Days!!!!! Ya hew!!!!
45th Missile Security Squadron, Ellsworth AFB 82-83
How can you tell me where I was stationed? Were you there?
I have heard stories that Security Police had to respond to a remote missile site because a rabbit had got inside the fence and tripped the alarm. Also, getting to a site in a blizzard was no fun either!
That is true. Several Security Police who worked the Missile Alerts have told of these stories. One troop in particular, got into a bit of trouble when he started trapping the varmints and then hung them from their ears along the perimeter fence line....
Had a rabbit sitting straight up on the blast door at Ellsworth. Tossed my mag light at it and it didn't budge. Frozen solid. The exhaust grate for the SSB was a good place to find animals in winter as it was warm air coming out.
Rest in peace
Senior Airman Donald Heitkamp
Airman First Class Barry Holmes
Staff Sergeant Charles Huskey
Why was the rabbit frozen? Was there toxic gases coming out of the grate ?
@@DudeInWalmart
The rabbit was on the blast door, not the SSB. I mentioned the warm air as a reason some animals would hang out.
Often.
90 MSS FE Warren AFB 78-82. Flight Chief & FSC.
Campervans guarding ICBM's?? wild 70s shit
They must have shown this near the end of boot camp down at Lackland
I spent a year at Lackland - went to Crypto school in the building with no windows. Our incentive was to pass all tests, if not we were sent to SP dog school. This was in 1969 when the dog school graduates were sent to Vietnam or DEW sites.
@@woodwaker1 SAC sites? Awful cold and isolated on the DEW line
@@irish89055 Not good choices hot Vietnam or frigid DEW
I thought a Deputy U.S. Marshall accompanies the convoy and is the one who officially designates the National Security Area as temporary Federal property from the outside and the SF provides security on the inside?
I hated those damn blue bippys! Along with regular fatigues, bright name and Air Force tapes, bright stripes and your honest to God SP Badge makes this from sometime in the mid to late 70s.
What year this video was made? 1970s?
And now it's time for the long-distance dedication. The letter reads:
Dear Kasey,
The Soviets have it pretty rough. It's cold over there! So we here in the United States wanted to bring some warmth and sunshine, if only for a brief moment. Kasey, it would really mean a lot if you could play, "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" by Timbuk3.
From a couple of lonely missile men in South Dakota,
Thanks.
Gentlemen, I can't think of a better way share the feelings of all Americans. Here's your long-distance dedica...
Hey, hold on... what's that... that bright flash? It's coming from the North. Oh, God!!
Tzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Gold.
Sounds like a proposal for a nuclear sunrise!
Sign me up! I’ll take the old Dodge camper and a M-16. Airdrop my supplies periodically.
I don't remember looking so young as a Buck & Staff.....here today the don't have Bucks anymore. Bucks & Staffs was the the Team Leaders in my Day......don't know "especially how" they don't have Bucks anymore.
91st MSS, Minot AFB (1975-79).FOXTROT Flight Area. 1976 was the year Security Police started wearing blue berets. The sign at Minot AFB Main Gate read: "Only the Best Come North". We did not carry a .38 sidearm. An M-16 and 120rds of ammo, and gas mask😅
Grand Forks ND, SAC 321 SPS Missile SQ. 72-74; 78-80.
I was in the same unit, 84-87, 321 MSS, Flight 7. I miss those days
I was 19 years old then, that was my first base of assignment. I had not seen that much snow in my life until being stationed there. I'm from Georgia.
He forgot to mention the Titan II missile sites near Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
Loose Lips Sink Ships...remember that Jose!!!
I was with 321 sps in grandforks nd. We were always issued 260 rounds with the m-16. I guess it changed before 78
I was also 804 then we went 321fst combat support.
@@samuelephraim870 what year did you go combat support? When they eliminated sac?
@@jarheadshooter6452 we were 804 sps then Sac said you will now be 321fst combat support Grp. Major Gebara was the Sps officer. I was one of the first helicopter Sat team leaders flew convoy support an responded to the nuc field for situation 6's.
@@samuelephraim870 got ya. The only escorts we worked were to the alert pad. I was law enforcment on base.
@@jarheadshooter6452 you were afc 812. I was 811/812 and the other Lol
The only people to mess with one of those convoys would be someone drunk or on drugs.
Question - Why would SAC give the USSR the exact coordinates (at least the bases themselves) if they want maximum defense? (It's hard to believe the KGB doesn't have this)
"And now #1 with a A-bomb the B-52s" ok that was bad lol
71,72 Campers,LCF's, and KCCC Malmstrom no plane patch
This brings back memories.
Zoinks, Scoob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When was this filmed? They all seem to need hair cuts. Why 54 rounds? Who do they open the combo lock during a N Dak. blizzard?
I was with the 4077th
81150.....380th, 4011 MUNS (overseas), Plattburgh AFB SAC New York, (overseas-location undisclosed 18 months), Loring AFB SAC, Maine ('78-'84...Honorable 9/84) I "Walked the Line"
I was 81150 ('80-83 SAC Dyess, AFB TX)...(83-84 7391st MUNSS Balikesir, Turkey)....(84-86 HQ Tactical Air Command, TAC Command Guard [basically TAC's Elite Guard] Langley, AFB VA)
Ya and it sucks that Plattsburgh and the Griff realigned.....😔
As someone with a TS/SCI, I find it hard to believe a simple assignment is classified. 99% of people who say that are full of shitz
Is that really Casey Kasem?
Yes... It really is Casey Kasem.....
341st MSS Malmstrom AFB we lead by deed.
……And the B-1 with a bullet…..
76 - 80 6931st Iraklion Crete Greece and 1608 th. Kirtland AFB Albuquerque NM Yup we looked just like that. Old Viet Nam era crap gear. Glad I didn’t go to one of northern SAC bases. BRRRR.
The guys are so much better trained and equipped now.
Thanks for serving. USCG Port Security/Force Protection 91-96 D8 MS, LA, & TX w/a little TDY in Seattle. I was reading here on TH-cam the other day that today's AF SPs aren't the cream of the crop like in this and your day, that it's the enlistees with the lowest of ASVAB scores who are "guided" into SP duty. I didn't misread/misunderstand. I hope the commenter was wrong...
@@baronedipiemonte3990 It’s true you don’t need a high score to get AF Security. Keep in mind it’s not a highly skilled job like electronics or some sort of aircraft maintenance job. But still a big responsibility and the biggest career field in the Air Force. Not all bases have jets and missiles but every one of them has Security Police /. Security Forces as it’s known now. And they are much better trained and equipped now than in my day back in 1976 -80. Thank you for your service as well.
I sure hope these procedures are obsolete because this is WAY too detailed for security reasons
"generaL you asked for my opinion" after these missiles have sat underground for 5 years the circuits are totally unreliable, it will be a miracle if we get one off the ground. "
North Dakota is so badass.
I remember the 80s being very awkward
So many procedures...
From 1966
809th Security Police F.E.W. 1968 to 1972
jeez looking at Modern Missile Security and seeing this Makes me think is SPETSNAZ Wanted to Sabotage the Missiles these guys would get horribly murdered and nobody would have a clue not i Get body Armor Wasn't exactly common in the 80's but NO Armor Driving around in a Soft Skinned Truck... "Da comrade We gonna Clap some cheeks today"
LMAO! Was looking for this comment. Yes some real Red Dawn stuff here.
Why 54 rounds of ammo?
You got 3 x 20 round magazines. If you fully loaded the mag with 20 rounds, the weapon was prone to jam. The solution was to load only 18 rounds in each magazine resulting in the 54 round basic load.
You'd better be a decent shit lol
God! We can hear the radiations in the audio....:D
You are silly, that is rumble from an old recording
These global strike bases are the fucking worst to be srationed at
We can all fantasize about a nuclear Apocalypse, Whether we have kids or pets or neither! .....Wait...Thats gonna start again.....
Titan 2 duty was way better.
My father was on Tittan II in Kansas
As a missileer
2 years FE Warren
Better Dead Than Red!!!
What was the deal with 54 rounds of 5.56? If they issued it in 20 round magazines and 10 round stripper clips, why not 60 rounds?
In 1980s standard load was 120 rounds in 30 rd magazines. One in the gun three on the belt.
They were issuing 3 - 20 rounders and they were downloaded to 18 rounds each for reliability.
Get the microphone out of your mouth. We'll hear you. Keep the mike 12" from your mouth. TY