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<blockquote data-quote="Weather Man" data-source="post: 15941146" data-attributes="member: 137766"><p>[ATTACH=full]1496863[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1496864[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1496865[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1496866[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1496867[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1496868[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]4m-YmLjjzTY[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>"They brought in three former ground crew guys who had been with the Unit back in the days we flew these jets and they told a most remarkable story.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Once a month they were tasked with doing a "max load" which amounted to bringing enough Genie missiles from the WSA to arm every plane on the ramp fully.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One day they got an out of cycle scramble to do a max load. They did their usual thing and while waiting for the order to download something strange happened. Cars came hauling ass down to flightline and missile launch keys were handed up to the WSO's, then even more oddly the canopies closed up. Imagine the shock of the ground crew when engines cranked and every F89 on the ramp blasted off into the sky with live nukes on board and the now empty nuke trailers went back to the WSA.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That was October of 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those jets went up to intercept potential Russian bombers coming over the pole. The way those old timers told that story gave me goosebumps. It was just amazing to hear it from the been there done that crowd, quite a treat."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weather Man, post: 15941146, member: 137766"] [ATTACH=full]1496863[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1496864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1496865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1496866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1496867[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1496868[/ATTACH] [MEDIA=youtube]4m-YmLjjzTY[/MEDIA] "They brought in three former ground crew guys who had been with the Unit back in the days we flew these jets and they told a most remarkable story. Once a month they were tasked with doing a "max load" which amounted to bringing enough Genie missiles from the WSA to arm every plane on the ramp fully. One day they got an out of cycle scramble to do a max load. They did their usual thing and while waiting for the order to download something strange happened. Cars came hauling ass down to flightline and missile launch keys were handed up to the WSO's, then even more oddly the canopies closed up. Imagine the shock of the ground crew when engines cranked and every F89 on the ramp blasted off into the sky with live nukes on board and the now empty nuke trailers went back to the WSA. That was October of 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those jets went up to intercept potential Russian bombers coming over the pole. The way those old timers told that story gave me goosebumps. It was just amazing to hear it from the been there done that crowd, quite a treat." [/QUOTE]
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