IYKYK But on a more serious note, this impacted the entire nuclear enterprise and all the personnel in it. Anyone and everyone who was in the enterprise that day still recalls the next four months vividly. Tweet added by Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️ @KeraRolsen

Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

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IYKYK But on a more serious note, this impacted the entire nuclear enterprise and all the personnel in it. Anyone and everyone who was in the enterprise that day still recalls the next four months vividly.

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@KeraRolsen

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I had my first flight in Minot the day this happen. What happened during debrief is still seared in my brain This who know me in person have heard the story of that first flight, at the time, I had never been so stressed in my life. The next 4 months (+ about 3 years) eclipsed it

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

In fact, it impacted me so greatly, I wrote both my ACSC & SAASS theses on it’s effects. @TheOTH_Journal has the very short version of the ACSC thesis here:

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Erika

@ErikaSleger

2 years

@KeraRolsen I was the ADC at Minot that year. Crazy, crazy time.

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

@ErikaSleger Oh geez. I bet business was booming for ADCs!

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Space Aquatic Reserve

@SwandriverKen

2 years

@KeraRolsen ‘Um, Sargent, there’s a thing um… well let me show you..’

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

@SwandriverKen Probably exactly how it went down, TBQH

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SkyGrunt

@SkyGrunt

2 years

@KeraRolsen That moment when you realize you were involved….

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

@SkyGrunt There was a patch floating around Minot not after that had Tinkerbell holding a bent spear, wearing and empty quiver, and a banner that read “It wasn’t me”

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Rasstro

@Rassverbs

2 years

@KeraRolsen Col Emig, got railroaded, only in command a couple of days when this occurred. I flew in his B-1 Fini-flight before he left for Minot.

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

@Rassverbs Easier to fire a single Wing/CC than an entire Wing 🤷🏻‍♀️

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B.Roll.Benny

@brollbenny

2 years

@KeraRolsen Y’all lose a nuke again??

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Puff, S A B E R S I N B I O ⚔️

@KeraRolsen

2 years

@bennystarks Not today and hopefully never again

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Kenneth Bailey

@michexposures

2 years

@KeraRolsen Is that the one where a nuclear bomb was accidentally carried from somewhere to Louisiana?

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Gene Ziemba

@gene_ziemba

2 years

@KeraRolsen SAC culture was dismantled almost with glee by the fighter mafia

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Bob Is Tired Of Data

@BobLovesData

2 years

@KeraRolsen Me in my head: Ok I don't know that date but there is only ONE thing she could possibly be referring to.

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John McIntyre

@JMcInDopey

2 years

@KeraRolsen Just in time for the dust to finally settle on this the cheating scandal at the ICBM squadrons broke out...it was a rough decade for the AF nuke community.

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Wayward Navigator(R)

@BBranby82

2 years

@KeraRolsen Those of us who grew up in SAC alternated between disbelief and, well… disbelief. Probably like everyone who wasn’t angry AF. Leadership matters.

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Polonium Man

@poloniumman

2 years

@KeraRolsen I knew a 61D Maj who went blue-to-green that year and was selected for LTC right after the move. I joked with him that he had to go to the Army for promotion. His response was classic, "one service values and promotes its nuclear scientists, and the other loses nuclear weapons."

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Pathways

@TheJediPath

2 years

@KeraRolsen I was wondering why you used ACC and after reading the global strike command didn’t exist before this incident 👀👀😬

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natehale

@natehale

2 years

@KeraRolsen I was retired by that time, but devoted a lot of attention to it in my blog: Part I: Part II: And the final installment:

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