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Originally Posted by Platapus
When I was stationed at Offutt, there was some comfort that we had an estimated 3 SS-18's targeting the base.
At least we would not suffer.
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Did you ever check out the military park in Omaha near the river? A friend of mine from the USS Bremerton and I wear invited out to see if we could fix the periscope on the training sub. What happened was that someone was able to park a bunch of jets and other hardware in the park but then they left it all alone for years and years.
They wanted to somehow convert the training sub into a public display when most of it had rusted out to the point of being dangerous.
Still, they had a nice collection of Navy jets from the 1950's and 1960's.
That wound up being an exercise where big plans and no money collided with harsh reality.
The scope barrel and all of its internal parts had welded themselves together a long, long time ago.
