(DEFCON status boards were posted/hung and changed as the status of the alert changed.) This event caused the base to jump to DEFCON(2) from DEFCON(3) (the normal level). military, Canada launched a missile to the south sending up a communications or weather satellite. I couldn't get the recruiter to pay for the trip to the Twin Cities to take the claustrophobia test, so I ETS'd (separated at Expiration Term of Service). I started to re-up in 76 as I wanted to get into EOD after working with that group. (EOD was removing all the explosives from the missile launch cell covers.) Because I could type a little, I was sent to the EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) unit as company clerk. I worked for a time in G3 (downstairs in the admin building) taking fingerprints of all new personnel for CONUS security clearances.Īs the base was decommissioned and the security force was no longer needed, those of us who were short timers also filled other positions. I worked security for convoy escort as well as at all four remote sites and the MSR complex.īefore the complex became fully operational, there was such a limited number of personnel that we would find ourselves doing almost anything. I was there (Mickelsen complex) before the first warhead, and several months after the last one was gone.

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Are we at defcon 3