<VV> Mobile ICBM Launcher (no Corvair)

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:23 PM 8/20/2010, George Jones wrote:
>I was stationed on one of those mobile ICBM launchers, one of the ones that
>was REAL close to the target. Thank god we were never called on to do what
>we were intended to do.


All I ever had to do was participate in activities which involved 
guarding some odd holes in the ground with mysterious objects inside 
them surrounded by three fences inside of which some bored sorts 
would walk circles carrying weapons, as if somebody would wanna steal 
a hole in the ground with a big concrete lid on it, and the objects 
inside were too big to carry off anyway.


>I don't miss the cold war!


Me neither...  if the bad guys had decided to shoot something at 
those odd holes (and we were pretty sure they know the holes were 
there), I wouldn't have had a chance to buy a half-dozen or so 
Corvairs.  On occasion the locals (we'd check them out with 
binoculars) would pause in their daily routines and stare down the 
way at those concrete lids with stark blank expressions on their 
faces.  It was sobering.   I don't think they liked the holes... or 
us, or both, never was really clear which.

Google Maps actually lets a person see that spot now, fences are gone 
although the holes are still there... evidently empty now with grass 
growing around the concrete lids and nobody around watching anymore.


During those times, it has occurred to me that somewhere someplace 
(before I rescued it 11 years later) my '60 4-door probably still had 
paint on it and may have even still shined.   And I acquired that car 
26 years ago...  I seem to be getting older or something, judging by 
the years I can count that passed since those entertaining times and 
vehicular accumulations of all things Corvair.



tony..