Art Sackett wrote:

> krusty kritter > wrote:
>
>
>>You do mean Uncle Nikita's missiles in Cuba, don't you? I like to think that
>>one of Uncle Sam's stray rockets never went thataway any farther than
>>Titusville...
>
>
> Actually, being a youngster (I'm only 43), I was in the Air Force when
> Reagan took office -- so our greatest concern was SLBM's that could
> have come from Soviet subs hiding south of Cuba.
>
> The radar was built in the 60's to do spacetrack, and got the missile
> warning role later. It's one of the least radar-lookin' things you'd
> ever see:
>
> http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/.../an-fps-85.htm
>
> We also took good long looks at new satellites that the Soviets put up,
> many of which were debris clouds by the time they reached our coverage
> area.
>
> I don't know how everyone else feels about it, but I really do
> appreciate good war stories and I thank you for sharing yours. My
> biggest and best stories are all pretty tame.
>

I'd like to tell story too about being a senior in high-school/feshman
in cleege during the Cuba missle crisis and my USAF stories, but dang
it, this is a cooking group. So I won't.


jim