Tom Drake

Well, Vandenberg has significant launch capability, but it was always the secret launch capability primarily. It's not like Cape Kennedy.

Well, Vandenberg has significant launch capability, but it was always the secret launch capability primarily. It's not like Cape Kennedy.

Well, Vandenberg has significant launch capability, but it was always the secret launch capability primarily. It's not like Cape Kennedy.

I don't keep up with that.

I don't keep up with that.

I don't keep up with that.

Well, remember, even when I was at survival school, I mean, just as another sort of a vignette here, an anecdote, where I stayed, so in between some of the courses I was taking at Fairchild Air Force Base, I was in... I was in the barracks. Guess where the barracks that I was in were located?

Well, remember, even when I was at survival school, I mean, just as another sort of a vignette here, an anecdote, where I stayed, so in between some of the courses I was taking at Fairchild Air Force Base, I was in... I was in the barracks. Guess where the barracks that I was in were located?

Well, remember, even when I was at survival school, I mean, just as another sort of a vignette here, an anecdote, where I stayed, so in between some of the courses I was taking at Fairchild Air Force Base, I was in... I was in the barracks. Guess where the barracks that I was in were located?

Right outside where they kept all the nuclear weapons in bunkers besides, you know, three roads of barbed wire and dogs and lights and everything else. And then I actually watched what they call the elephant walk. Oh, really? My father used to fly B-52s as well. In fact, you know, buff. We always called them buffs. Big, ugly flying effers. Yeah. Yeah. And they had the elephant walk.

Right outside where they kept all the nuclear weapons in bunkers besides, you know, three roads of barbed wire and dogs and lights and everything else. And then I actually watched what they call the elephant walk. Oh, really? My father used to fly B-52s as well. In fact, you know, buff. We always called them buffs. Big, ugly flying effers. Yeah. Yeah. And they had the elephant walk.

Right outside where they kept all the nuclear weapons in bunkers besides, you know, three roads of barbed wire and dogs and lights and everything else. And then I actually watched what they call the elephant walk. Oh, really? My father used to fly B-52s as well. In fact, you know, buff. We always called them buffs. Big, ugly flying effers. Yeah. Yeah. And they had the elephant walk.

They practiced what would happen if. The alert is given, launch. And one after the other, two-minute intervals going down the runway at Fairchild. just one after the other. It was quite amazing. I had read about it, heard about it, but I'd never seen the elephant walk, what they call the elephant walk, just like that.

They practiced what would happen if. The alert is given, launch. And one after the other, two-minute intervals going down the runway at Fairchild. just one after the other. It was quite amazing. I had read about it, heard about it, but I'd never seen the elephant walk, what they call the elephant walk, just like that.

They practiced what would happen if. The alert is given, launch. And one after the other, two-minute intervals going down the runway at Fairchild. just one after the other. It was quite amazing. I had read about it, heard about it, but I'd never seen the elephant walk, what they call the elephant walk, just like that.

This is it, the elephant walk?

This is it, the elephant walk?

This is it, the elephant walk?

Those aren't B-52s. Oh, okay.

Those aren't B-52s. Oh, okay.