Thursday, August 18, 2011

Memories of Crew Life - III

We started Emergency War Order training during the first week in November.  It's the stuff you really want to learn when you first get to IQT.  How does the US plan to fight a nuclear war?  You get to it during the third week of training.  It takes a little while to learn how to operate the weapon system before you can execute a launch command.

IQT had both class room and practical instruction.  The practical instruction occurred in the Missile Procedures Trainer.  Each trainer ride took about five to six hours.  Two hours of weapon system training, another two hours of EWO training, plus a break, and pre-and post-ride instruction.  Since a missilier acts in a crew, we were all assigned crew partners from the class.  We took all of our trainer rides with the same crew partner.  EWO was introduced on our fifth ride soon after we started EWO training in November.  That was the first time we turned keys.  It was the first time I fought a simulated nuclear war.  I would repeat the exercise hundreds of times over the next four years.

The next day was an academic class, and when we showed up in class there was a piece of paper on the tables in front of each chair.  In contained a short statement saying we understood the nature of the mission we were being assigned, and that we agreed to perform that mission.  We had to sign the paper. If we didn't sign the paper we would be administratively discharged for attempting to qualify our duties. They let us perform one commit before they asked for this promise.  It was reasonable even if the MPT couldn't quite indicate the gravity of the mission.

I signed the paper without hesitation, mental reservation, or purpose of evasion.

carl

1 comment:

  1. St.Photina, the Samaritan Woman at well John4.
    DOES ANYONE KNOWS WHY JOHN, THE BAPTIST HAS WINGS OF ANGEL?

    Here are the names of her Five Husbands well-known to the Sikhs:-

    1. Immorality that she had overpowered for Samaritans are very Moral People – Ego related.
    2. Anger, which the once-born natural persons display – Ego related.
    3. Greed that is displayed by evil-spirited twice-born people of evil spirit – Mind related.
    4. Worldly Temptations in which you become cruel to rule over others – Mind related - Pope.
    5. Haughtiness displayed by the stiff-necked, hard dry wood, men of Letters – Ego related.

    Thus, in a House, our physical body, there are Five. Three of Ego against Two of Mind and two of Mind against three of Ego. There is always a struggle between the Two, cheat and cruel hypocrite rulers, of Mind against the three of simpletons. Holocausts and revolutions are the end results.

    A Righteous person is called a Wise Man of holy ghost when he has overpowered the above Five and such contented and merciful rulers, the sons of Man live in the Peace of God. Centurion was a typical example, who loved his people in God. Such kind people love God by serving people against the Anti-Christ Pope, a Cruel and Merciless Ruler who could not stand the Third Temptation of Jesus by the Satan, “Forget about God, worship me, Mammon, for the worldly rule”.

    Here is a Playlist on Youtube that describe them in details:-
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5995C6741CE61432

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