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The Nuclear War We Almost Had
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77457994" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>The question we asked, sitting down in the bunker, was: "If the 'balloon goes up,' would we try to warn our families?"</p><p></p><p>Our families were right there above our heads. But from Omaha, every route led through ICBM fields which would have also been targets of the Soviet strike...there wasn't any safe distance they could reach in time.</p><p></p><p>We did have what we called the SAC "Headquarters Emergency Relocation Team" (SAC-HERT) that we'd send out to a secret location where a stocked and equipped shelter was prepared. Funny thing, the people who got selected to staff the HERT were always the least effective people, because the unit never wanted to lose their best for two weeks during the exercise. I kept having to remind them: "Hey, these are the people who might <strong><em>survive</em></strong>. Choose your best, not your worst."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77457994, member: 326155"] The question we asked, sitting down in the bunker, was: "If the 'balloon goes up,' would we try to warn our families?" Our families were right there above our heads. But from Omaha, every route led through ICBM fields which would have also been targets of the Soviet strike...there wasn't any safe distance they could reach in time. We did have what we called the SAC "Headquarters Emergency Relocation Team" (SAC-HERT) that we'd send out to a secret location where a stocked and equipped shelter was prepared. Funny thing, the people who got selected to staff the HERT were always the least effective people, because the unit never wanted to lose their best for two weeks during the exercise. I kept having to remind them: "Hey, these are the people who might [B][I]survive[/I][/B]. Choose your best, not your worst." [/QUOTE]
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