Comments on: In Re. LeMay’s Last Laugh

by: Brian Dunbar

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:05:14 +0000

Gads, guys - remember when the ultimate compliment in military-ese was �Strac� - for STRategic Air Command

Heh. I remember that STRAC stood for

Silly Troops Running Around (in) Circles.

by: Sgt. Mom

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:40:48 +0000

Good lord, at this rate General LeMay is probably revolving in his grave with sufficient speed so that if you ran some connecting cables to the right place, you could probably generate sufficient electricity to power a small city.

Gads, guys - remember when the ultimate compliment in military-ese was “Strac” - for STRategic Air Command?

by: Timmer

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:34:35 +0000

What’s really scarey to me is that they carried nukes in a B-52 over CONUS. That means they either didn’t complete their pre-flight or worse, their pre-flight didn’t include looking at the weapons!

by: Brian Dunbar

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:55:57 +0000

I don�t know how anyone could take nukes that lightly �

Well, ya know. They just _sit_ there day after day. It’s gotta be kinda boring and lackluster just watching a bit of ordnance that you pray will never actually be used.

What I’m reminded of is that competence is fleeting. SAC was the best in the world at it did. Twenty years later their descendants look around and mutter ‘wait, last month we had _ten_ of those in inventory and there are only five in the bunker _this_ month …’

by: Bob

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:58:13 +0000

I had to laugh out loud that the command billet when from the CyberCommand to the strategic command. And I agree with the checklist comment. As they said back in the day, “To err is human, to forgive is not SAC policy.” I don’t know how anyone could take nukes that lightly …

Bob
(446th Strategic Missile Sqdn 1979-1983)