City boy now retired and loving life in The New River Valley area of Southwest Virginia. I'm a US Air Force vet who served on a 4 man Titan II ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) Missile Combat Crew for nearly 4 years in the early 70s. Yes, I was one of those men in the silos standing ready to launch a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union. Thank God the execution message never came.

After 5 years in the Regular Air Force I transferred into the Ready reserve and cross trained as a Pararescueman serving for another 9 years in the Special Operations Community.

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