Quebec 01 Peacekeeper Missile alert facility, Chugwater Wyoming 10-18-19 OK...Sorry I am a nerd for this stuff and I interrupted my guide a few times......so what!?!?
90th FMMS PMT 88-90 here. I dont recall the partition in the center of the LCF day/break room area from back in the day. There was always a pool table but they all also pretty much had large rear screen projection tvs against the wall that would be to right in this photo and one of those West Virginia State Flower massive C-Band satellite dishes for programming. Also the Maryland Chicken was THE foil pack to have along with mashed potatoes, corn, a roll and a Coke. Good eating at the LCF followed by Die Hard on the TV with my teammates. Fun times
Very well done, I am glad you got some good videos of the blasts doors, when you try to explain to someone without a good video how big those doors are, it is almost impossible. This place has a special place in my heart for several reasons, when I worked out there, I worked fireteams, so I worked all over the missile fiend, but Quebec 1 was the first place and the last place I ever worked in the missile field, and many years later, I got to show my son the same place, however I got annoyed when the guide kept calling it Q 1, instead of Quebec One. But other than that, he did pretty good. 2:40 I thought it was funny seeing the No Smoking sign in the area that used to be our smoking area. CS Powell, if you ever have any questions about life inside one of these, feel free to ask. I spent almost 5 years working the field out there. Also, As a fireteam, since I dont think they said any of this, the front room behind the "day/living room" where i think they have all their admin stuff is where fireteams used to stay. Funny thing is, the one room i was not allowed to go in, was the room i spent most of my sleeping fireteam days in the field.
Thank you so much Dave! I am such a geek for this stuff growing up as a cold war "Reagan" kid, and a Air Force/Army Air Corp brat son/grandson. I drove 10 hours one way just to visit this place again when it opened as a museum. In my research I noticed there is still MX support equipment sitting outside of Warren AFB along highway 222(round top road) north of the base. The coolest thing sitting there is a Peacekeeper warhead trailer. I could tell that's what it was because of the silo cover flaps on the center of the trailer. The other thing i noticed was a lot of campers for pickup trucks. I could only think of how happy a guy/gal would be "camping" in one out in the field in the winter....ha ha no thanks!
@@cspowell420 The campers are from 790th SFS camper support, and they was from the same squadron i was in, just the other side of the hall so to speak. I would of hated to have their job. Some of the guys really enjoyed it, others hated it, but i guess that is with any job.
it was in the late 80's when I was stationed at FE Warren as a PMT'er there is no way I am going to remember which site we were visiting or what the name of the town was but on our way to one of the sites we were tasked with performing our annual/biannual/or, worst of all, quadrennial(quads meant having to do EVERYTHING) work packages on there was this small town, with an active old brick high school that had an actual dummy Titan Missile erected in front of the school right along side the American flag
Cold launch was implemented with the Peacekeeper because it was envisioned that the missile would move between underground launch sites, move by rail, or a truck mobile system. Such platforms would have had to have been much heavier and larger to withstand the full thrust of the motor. None of these were adopted due to budget and looming arms agreements, but the missile had been developed around cold launch so it was retained even when they were silo based.
SLBM's pretty much accomplished the same goal although in a way that was less expensive, more reliable, quicker launch times, shorter flight times, etc etc
I spent many hours above ground there. But at least we got the windows and fresh air, always had a lot of respect for the guys who had to do 24 hours and only got to see buttons and panels for 24 hours strait...
90th FMMS PMT 88-90 here. I dont recall the partition in the center of the LCF day/break room area from back in the day. There was always a pool table but they all also pretty much had large rear screen projection tvs against the wall that would be to right in this photo and one of those West Virginia State Flower massive C-Band satellite dishes for programming. Also the Maryland Chicken was THE foil pack to have along with mashed potatoes, corn, a roll and a Coke. Good eating at the LCF followed by Die Hard on the TV with my teammates. Fun times
Wind and Wyoming are synonyms.
Very well done, I am glad you got some good videos of the blasts doors, when you try to explain to someone without a good video how big those doors are, it is almost impossible. This place has a special place in my heart for several reasons, when I worked out there, I worked fireteams, so I worked all over the missile fiend, but Quebec 1 was the first place and the last place I ever worked in the missile field, and many years later, I got to show my son the same place, however I got annoyed when the guide kept calling it Q 1, instead of Quebec One. But other than that, he did pretty good.
2:40 I thought it was funny seeing the No Smoking sign in the area that used to be our smoking area.
CS Powell, if you ever have any questions about life inside one of these, feel free to ask. I spent almost 5 years working the field out there.
Also, As a fireteam, since I dont think they said any of this, the front room behind the "day/living room" where i think they have all their admin stuff is where fireteams used to stay. Funny thing is, the one room i was not allowed to go in, was the room i spent most of my sleeping fireteam days in the field.
Thank you so much Dave! I am such a geek for this stuff growing up as a cold war "Reagan" kid, and a Air Force/Army Air Corp brat son/grandson. I drove 10 hours one way just to visit this place again when it opened as a museum. In my research I noticed there is still MX support equipment sitting outside of Warren AFB along highway 222(round top road) north of the base. The coolest thing sitting there is a Peacekeeper warhead trailer. I could tell that's what it was because of the silo cover flaps on the center of the trailer. The other thing i noticed was a lot of campers for pickup trucks. I could only think of how happy a guy/gal would be "camping" in one out in the field in the winter....ha ha no thanks!
@@cspowell420 The campers are from 790th SFS camper support, and they was from the same squadron i was in, just the other side of the hall so to speak. I would of hated to have their job. Some of the guys really enjoyed it, others hated it, but i guess that is with any job.
it was in the late 80's when I was stationed at FE Warren as a PMT'er there is no way I am going to remember which site we were visiting or what the name of the town was but on our way to one of the sites we were tasked with performing our annual/biannual/or, worst of all, quadrennial(quads meant having to do EVERYTHING) work packages on there was this small town, with an active old brick high school that had an actual dummy Titan Missile erected in front of the school right along side the American flag
Great to see thank you for the video.
We should have never given up the MX missile system. We may need them against our current enemies today.
Yousound like a War Momger
@@spacecoyote6646 We should always be improving our ability to defend our country. Our enemies are.
Triumph rocks!
Thank you for Uploading this interesting Video. Capsule looks that they had removed all MX Equipment. It looks like native Capsule from 70's
You mean REACT?
@@gorkushka Yes, i think REACT was removed, older parts were installed. maybe the MX-Components were classified. it`s only 15 years ago....
Cold launch was implemented with the Peacekeeper because it was envisioned that the missile would move between underground launch sites, move by rail, or a truck mobile system. Such platforms would have had to have been much heavier and larger to withstand the full thrust of the motor. None of these were adopted due to budget and looming arms agreements, but the missile had been developed around cold launch so it was retained even when they were silo based.
Great info, Thank you sir! I saw the Peacekeeper rail car on a visit to Dayton a few years back. Would love to see the inside of that car...
SLBM's pretty much accomplished the same goal although in a way that was less expensive, more reliable, quicker launch times, shorter flight times, etc etc
I stopped there a week ago, unfortunately it was closed for the winter. I did take some pictures of the grounds.
I think they just recently closed. Try to take a tour next year!
Greetings fellow Johnson Countian.
Ha ha A long way from home....PV here!
Spent many hours on alert at this capsule.
I spent many hours above ground there. But at least we got the windows and fresh air, always had a lot of respect for the guys who had to do 24 hours and only got to see buttons and panels for 24 hours strait...
Yes, on Oct 1. I was able to drive up to the facility and get some pictures from outside of the fence.
Great video, thanks
On the grounds; where is the escape hatch?
It is located on a grassy area on the right side of the building were the antennas and other sensors are.
Why was the tap running in kitchen ? Cheers
I asked them that too. lol They said they were flushing the septic system, It had not been used in a while.