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Missile Silo (Texas Country Reporter)
Just outside the City of Lawn, a relic of the cold war was nearly lost to time until it was resurrected by the efforts of Larry Sanders.
Larry Sanders
Abilene, TX
Phone: 325-280-9282
E-mail: atlassilo@yahoo.com
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10-29-2022
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My father was in the process of moving us from California to Virginia where he was taking on being responsible for the combat readiness of every helicopter stationed in the Continental US as the Cuban Missle Crisis started. He had a note taped to the dash that had a list of radio stations he had to keep on as we drove. Near Abilene he received the code words over the radio he was listening for. We diverted over to Altus AF Base. It was late at night. He presented his ID to the guard and told my Mom to drive to Mississippi to her family and wait for him to call. As he was telling her that, a jeep pulled up full of armed guards. They escorted my Dad to the jeep and took off. We did not see him again for about 3 weeks. He finally called after the Russians stood down and told us we could come on up to VA. Many years later, sitting around a fire sipping drinks, he told me that he was 100% certain that we were going to war, and that there was a very good chance he and everyone he worked with would die in the first exchange. He said he was 50/50 if he wanted us to survive or be vaporized so we didn't have to live through what would follow. Scary times for sure.
I spent over 7 years underground in a Titan ii ICBM silo. My job was to launch the missile with it’s 9 megaton
"nothing like this has ever been built in America"…
I guess what they say is true…
Everything is bigger in Texas. And the bullshit Texans can spew is legendary.
That is a pretty high water table. I thought underground water was drying up from all the farm related pumping.
Wow. I'm glad Larry is preserving this. Hopefully a windmill or similar can be set up to get that water out of there eventually.
Wowww….I had no idea such a place existed in Texas,I live in Pecos Tx.
I would live in there.
Pump the water out and use it.
I would be worried that the Russians had forgotten or had neglected to remove the targeting coordinates for that sight from their missile systems!
There's a plentiful water supply 👍
Living therevwith zero poweright be a challege.😮
We used to lease a property for deer hunting off 604 and the property next door had one of these sites as well, just a few miles from this one.
I was just an infant then, but remember the stories my Dad used to tell about when he was in the Marine Corp being on a ship loaded with rockets off the coast of Cuba and watching Russian military looking back at them through binoculars, a very intense time for sure.
I wonder if any of these old silo sites are still targeted by the Russians?
Either way, if I owned that place I'd outfit it seriously nice and live in it at least part time.
He's totally right in that the people who built and manned these silos were "front line" troops just like any other that likely changed history for the better.
Someone who has the money should seek this man out and drain the water out of the silo for the sake of history.
My buddy's dad worked at one in the mid-1960's. Sometimes I'd tag along when his mom would go and pick him up from work. We had to park in a specially designated area and wait till the workers returned from the one mile long drive. This video makes it sound so mysterious and rare; it was fairly common in some regions, not just Texas.
Quick reminder. DEMOCRATS RESPECT NO ONE WITH A REGARD FOR THIS COUNTRY.
…and there are plenty of limp-wristed Antifa soybois who will claim they are veterans who support Democrat fascism on the web.
I'd love to talk to Larry
Wow
I worked Security at the former MINUTEMAN missiles in South Dakota near the Black Hills. Had to have a secret clearance and yes, we all did help win the cold war. Our Squadron had 150 sites. Now gone except for DELTA-ONE AND DELTA-NINE that the National Park Service opened to the public several years ago near Wall, SD along I-90. Check them out sometime.
As a former Minuteman ICBM technician I truly appreciate your efforts to preserve a part of our legacy. I was assigned to the 44th Strategic Missile Wing and helped maintain our readiness over 13,500 square miles of western South Dakota for over 20 years. Fortunately the National Park Service saw fit to preserve our legacy also. https://www.nps.gov/mimi/index.htm
When I was a kid living in Clyde in the 60s and 70s, we could see in the distance from our family property some of the buildings around the ICBM bunker. I was always told it was full of water. It is fascinating to see here what I only imagined as a kid. Very thankful someone has preserved a part of history.
I know of people who have snuck into one of those abandoned silos and climbed the old rusty stairs down to the water level.
Assured mutual distruction a phase coined by the United States Federal government – simple translation if we can't have absolute power we will distroy the world.
There is a Titan missile in original order Near Tucson Az. open for tours. His claims (the only one) are not accurate. It even has a titan missile in it.
texas is a loser state, LOL can't even out GDP guatemala.
My father helped build several of the Atlas sites in New Mexico by Walker AFB in the late 1950's and I served in the late 1960' on a Minute Man site. I have nothing but praise for those people and the people who built them. My father also was already in the US Army before Dec 7, 1941. I praise all those brave folks both men and women.
whats so sad is we are right back where they were then. Our country pushing for it this time.
I seen where this located and wonder how one can get access or get a tour of the facility.
Been there. It was pretty cool!
And we have been less focused on US protection since.
I live about 3 miles from this