A coworker of mine is close with some Air Force captains and higher ups. He went to an event this weekend and when talking with them he learned that they are not permitted to transport nukes anymore because of some pretty colossal fuck ups. Usually when transporting nukes/warheads it’s a big convoy, soldiers, helicopters, police, etc. Well recently they fucked up and did none of that. Just sent some semis loaded up with warheads along with no protection or anything. Upon one trucks arrival to a base, they didn’t even know what it was and just let it sit on base for a while. One truck allegedly broke down at a truck stop and sat there for days. The level of gross incompetence is funny to me. I have no sources for this info… just word of mouth. But I don’t believe my coworker would just make that shit up for no reason.
Movie idea: a truck driver stops at a truck stop to piss and on their way out they bump into some guy and they both drop their keys. They return to the parking lot to find an identical truck next to their and they click the lock button to figure out which ones which. They get in and drive off, only realizing they got the wrong truck when they try unloading a truck full of frozen veggies only to find a nuke has taken the shipments place.
sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension. neat
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I remember once some Danish was arguing that the US military presence in his country/Greenland was only beneficial, it was great to drop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash on him and subsequently how propagandised he was by never hearing about it
Thule air base
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Fucking hell.
Even when the US was fighting the Nazis they didn’t stop being Nazis themselves.
That would be very funny and entirely in line with my expectations of the US military.
The word on the street regarding the ICBM squadrons for a long time has been that their morale is extremely low, probably because they work long hours doing nothing and if they ever did have to do their job it would be an extinction-level event. The smart thing to do really is to get rid of all of the nukes because the chances of an accident are higher than the chances of ever actually needing to use them.
