This was very similar circumstances to the Cuban Missile Crisis except that maintenance stayed home. This was something that few people knew about. One of the c/c's that lived next door in the barracks all he would say was "can't talk about it. a fighter pilot in those days would know. We stopped the event from occurring, but if we hadn;t there would have been hell on earth I worked at Vance AFB, OK for 45 years and have asked a lot of retired military about this and one person knew because he was there parking fighters, I believe at Shaw AFB but not sure. Probably every base on the east coast was involved. This was not a nuclear incident.
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