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Thank you for your video's regarding these silent killers sitting in the open plains of Montana, Nth Dak and NEB/COL/WY (yes, I've painstakingly located about 99% of the MM silo's on Google Earth), still that's just the above ground portions which are the iceberg principal...there's more below than above....but growing up I was fascinated with everything US and Nuclear....still am, hence watching this, and I can assume whilst it has significantly entered the technological age, there are still many old school processes that are still followed these days....can't imagine the rigmorol during the Cold War era, no wonder there was/is the cost associated with these sites....is truly hard to fathom being from Australia, but the world is so small these days....the whole ICBM thing is still nonetheless impressive!!!! Cheers from Aus!!!! 🍻🍻🍻🍻

I was a Minuteman II ICBM Crew Member at Malmstrom AFB during the height of the Cold War at the beginning of the 1980s. I spent my Line Crew time as a member of the 10th Strategic Missile Squadron - the First Aces. I served as an SCP Crew Member and was the Delta Flight Commander. For most of my crew time, I served as an Evaluator and Instructor Crew Commander.

I WAS FMMS AT GRAND FORKS ALSO SMW 1977 TO 8O THEN FE WARREN PMT THEN FMMS ORDERLY ROOM SQDRON CAREER ADVISOR 1980 TO RETIREING IN 87. THEN WORKING FOR RCA DOWN RANGE AT THE TEST RANGE AT QUAJ ATOLL AS A FACILITY TECH

I was stationed @ Ellsworth AFB from 90 to 92, at that time the 44th MW was being decommissioned. It was a hectic time !

I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB from 90 to 92, during that time they started decommission the 44th MW.

1st of all, I to would like to thank you, deeply for your service... I found this segment fascinating, to get the inside scoop on the nuts and bolts, of how to maintain our Nuclear deterrent apparatus. What a colossual undertaking it must be, to bear the weight of the 🌎 world so to speak, ensuring we are ready to launch, and also being ever vigilant not to allow an "inadvertent" incident to rewrite human history in a poorer light . Thanks so much for sharing this... God bless ..

I was an EMT TEAM member at Malmstrom AFB 1976-1978. I have been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer & Kidney Cancer

How much do you get Paid yearly doing this type of work ???

North American Defense Strategic Air Command. 3:40 The missiles are buried underground, but they're controlled from a shack? Wouldn't that be easy to knock out?

I was a 316x0 working in the FMT shop at Ellsworth, 74 - 77. The job was tough, especially in winter but it was the most important job I have ever had. I am proud that I was trusted to do it.

good vid!

This makes me so sad, knowing we have this technical capability and a near perfect approach to maintenance and services at any cost, yet we have homeless and hungry citizens and veterans who need help. I wish our country cared as much about that as being a superpower. We could be an ultrapower by eliminating homelessness and suffering within our own land. It disgusts me to see our money go overseas for their wars. Are we not so advanced now that we have artificial intelligence? Where is the solution to end poverty and homelessness, hunger, killing?

You have a casino in your house. LOL

I enjoyed both parts one and two. Very informative story with clear pictures and superhero music. Always wondered how these systems were maintained. Excellent!

Was an FSC/ART Team member for the 342nd MSS working primarily out of the GOLF (12th SMS) and TANGO (564th SMS) flight areas back in the mid to late 1980's. I loved my Montana experience, and have been back often since back in the day. Odd. I never worked FOXTROT or PAPA in all my time on the westside. I never saw the eastside (10th, and 490th SMS) at any time. The prairie dogs got so bad at GOLF, they actually issued us (the site) a pellet rifle. We had a great competition -- The FM got in on the act by keeping score. Between that, and hanging out in capsule with two of the coolest combat crews I ever had the pleasure of serving with will be enduring memories forever.

I was Security Forces stationed at Malmstrom 2007 - 2012. 341st MSF Sqd. It was not a nice experience, but was unique. Interesting to see things from the maintainers side

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I wss a CTT team member from 74-78 in WAFB, MO. Then a site chief from 78-79 at FEWAFB, WY. Your video brought back some memories!

Was it a "TOP SECRET" clearance or a "SECRET" clearance? I was in the Air Force during that period and bomber Crew Chiefs had a SECRET clearance, but not a Top Secret clearance. We took possession of nuclear weapons until the flight crew got onboard and then we would sign them over to the Aircraft Commander. The flight crew got Top Secret clearances because they had targeting information.

Used to ride dirt bikes out to the old abandoned NIKE Missle sites in Glastonbury, CT. This was back in the mid 80's nothing really to see but a group of concrete slabs and something that looked like an old bulkhead structure filled with cement. Maybe for below ground generator or controls? The only active use of the area was a fenced in air traffic direction beacon on a hilltop. We must have gotten too close one day and tripped a perimeter sensor. Our second mistake was taking a break from riding long enough for the forest officer responce vehicle to arrive (I forget what their official name was). Being kids, we started our bikes and bugged out into the woods. Thanks for the video.

There was no authentication number for us maintenance guys when I was working Minuteman sites at Ellsworth AFB in the mid 70's. They must have started that later. I was an FMT team chief.

Simpson-260… OMG I feel so old"…. Always worked …. 💪👍🙏🫡

after watching this entire video I am further convinced that pineapple belongs on pizza.

Which Minuteman looks like it has an MX-10 nosecone? Is that the III? Now I'm feeling like an ignoramus because I totally forgot about that.

Who replenished the tritium in the warheads?

Every time I double tap the dislike button it always stays blank. What’s the deal?

Great vid! Thanks

I lived 15 miles from 1 of this silos near Cheyenne, Wyoming

A few years ago, was passing by a mussike site in North Dakota. They have numerous armored vehicles on eirher side of the site entrance. Those armored vehicles have crew zerved weapons on them. Also, numerous humvees. It was interesting and a bit unnerving at the sametime. Not a place or time that you wsnt to stop and ask questions. Up the raod, at small town with a convenience stop, there was another column of humvees and support vehicles , with a different maintenance team. We went inside , and many of the team were inside, getting coffee or whatever. They were all very polite and respectful. My respects to all of them.

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$100 in last time I played craps, I put $5 on the field. 7... $10 on the field - 7. 20 on the field-7 40 on the field -7. Last 25 on the field-7. I watched the next roll-7. The guy rolled 6 7's in a row.... I walked away.

Great video. I'm retired active duty and retired civil service. Most of my time was in Minuteman. Malmstrom 84' - 88', 96' - 04', F. E. Warren 04' - 21'. I was FMT (facilities maintenance team). Also, prior to cross training, I was comm. - worked on the HICS. The cinnamon rolls at the By-Way Cafe were legendary. We all had our 3x5 card and I think once you bought four you got on free. One cinnamon roll would hold me till' well after lunch.

Fun video but the music is annoying.

A question I can’t seem to find an answer to is does the missile silo have flame tunnels to release flames from the thrusters of the missile?

Tango 50...up in the 564th squadron, North of Great Falls. That squadron was originally Minuteman II, and the system was like Wing VI at Grand Forks. Which meant the equipment and personnel were unique...not like the other 150 LF's and 15 LCF's at Malmstrom. Let me tell you how maintenance was in the "Old Wing"! I was a Targeting team chief on Minuteman I, from 1965 to '69! We aligned the missile guidance system, and associated equipment using Swiss-made optical theodolites. (We were told at missile school that the Russians used parts on the bottom!) We had a targeting console contained in a large box on the back of a 5-ton, six passenger truck, with which we programmed using mylar tapes, the signals sent down to the programmer in the upper equipment room, through a large cable. Guards? Yes, we had them with us on each dispatch. They were armed with M-2 Carbines and one magazine with 10 rounds of ball ammo! Never saw an AR-15 or an M-16. They were pipelined to 'Nam! Want to know more? I wrote a book called, "And the Truck You Rode In On!"

Nos dias atuais, criançinhas de Hollywood, é sarmat 2, para carbonizar vosso prazer nacionalista!!!!!!.

This brings back a lot of memories. I was at A5 the one in the foothills near Monarch. my first job out of tech school in Minnesota. A5 was part of the first missile site to be built. It was a Minuteman 1. One day back in 1962 the missile was in the hole without the warhead when we got a call for all Boeing personnel to leave the site. On the way back to Great Falls we saw the truck which carries the warhead go out. It was the start of the Cuban missile crisis. Note the support building was not built yet at this site. I know all about the access procedures and the forever slow Plug. Do you remember the Polaris tube? The rest of my time at Bowing was going from site to site with another crew doing the same and run tests and balancing the line between missile lunch siloes. all over the three bases Malmstrom, Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Ellsworth AFB South Dakota. just about every missile site some before the Air Force takes over and some after. without the Security Forces with us. We were given the codes to open the hatches and then to codes to lock up after we left. I'm now 82

I was at Ellsworth AFB at about the same time you were at Malmstrom. I liked both your videos. I was on the Operations side as an MCCC. I'd like to ask you some questions about the maintenance side of things and also the MM II and MM III mix. If you'd care to converse a bit, let me know, and I'll give you an email address.

This brings back a lot of memories. Back in 1962 I was working for Boeing on the Minuteman missile A5 the first Missile to go one line. It happen during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was a close call. We where working on site with the missile in place without the war head on, when we got a call to get off now. On the way back to Great Falls we saw the truck which carries the war head go out. The rest of my time our crew went to just about every site, balancing the lines that go between missile silos. Sites before and after the Air Force took control of the group. In Montana, South Dakota, and Minot North Dakota. I’m now 82. I know all about the combination lock’s and the big clam shill cover and the big plug in the hole which took for ever to go down. And don’t forget the Polaris tube if you know what I mean?

Fascinating stuff. I enlisted in 1996 and my job would have been electronics maintenance on those missiles, if I hadn't gotten a medical discharge. I worked at Vandenberg for 9 years as a contractor so I've seen plenty of facilities and launches, but never really knew exactly what my job would have looked like if I'd stayed in. Thanks for posting this. Maybe skip the background music next time?

I went all the way through tech school at vadenburg and completed the entire school for missle maintenance technician, and the last day of class I got called into the Cpts office and got told I wasn't graduating, and I was in fact getting discharged for fraudulent enlistment. I had a weed charge that got dismissed when I was 17 ,and my recruiter told me just don't put it on my paperwork that I've been arrested. I didn't end up getting discharged because when I was waiting on my discharge papers 9/11 happened and I ended up getting reclassified to a medical administration job. Lol sucked , but I wished now it would hade all worked out with the missile job . I was proud of myself for once in my life for finishing that school

Hey! Were Hank Habenick, Bobby Watts, and Joe Shafffers still there? And that doe-eyed beauty at Dutton-0 ?

I'm a 75 yo now, but I do remember my 8 years in the Air Force, the best years of my life. It was between 1967 - 1975 since I last carried code pages to penetrated these Launch Facilities as a Team Chief. I actually had a great team of five technicians with different job specialties, a couple corrosion control guys, and a security guard. On the missile site we did work in the support building and I opened the security pity with the coordination with the Launch Capsule Crew to penetrated the B-Plug telescoping ladder down to the first level of the equipment floor, then coordinating again with the Capsule Crew we "failed safe" the missile for us to safely perform maintenance on both equipment levels. I was very honored to serve my country. The USAF gave me a good foundation to move into a 37 year career with Air Products and Chemicals Inc, into my present retirement. I think I had a great run working for two great organizations in my lifetime.

Very interesting, Thanks!

Really interesting to learn about the procedures and life on the ground, much better than the usual docos

I maybe a civi but I grew up in sea scouts...24hr clock is standard

Former EMT Team Chief here, 91st MW, 91st OMMS/MXS. Thanks for the video, remember everything like it was yesterday. From squadron code change to MG R&R to OZ/IZ Checkout to GMR25 & chromate filter changes to MEEDS box authentication to yelling CAPSULE! on the SIN line to get them to pick up their phone 😂

I enlisted during the latter part of ‘Nam and served in 91st MMS at Minot ND. The base had a saying “ Why not Minot? Freezin the reason.” I was there in the mid 70’s as a 31650G-2. Boeing Aerospace was finishing up the change over from MM 2 to MM3’s. It’s been 50+ years ago. If they ever launched at us I’d go out on my front porch with a barley pop and watch the fireworks. The northern hemisphere would be toast. There isn’t a hole deep enough to hide in.

What size mdf did you use 4x8 ? And how big was the dealer area you cut out ? About 8 inches ?