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Nukes on a plane - 70 punished

by rcs1

Continuing coverage by Avahome... -- GH. Originally posted Sat Oct 20, 2007 at 03:11:58 PM EST

I've been waiting for the final word on this debacle. As it turns out 65 airmen were decertified from handling nuclear weapons and 4 officers were relieved of command. (I count 69...)

Investigators find widespread disregard for rules on handling such weapons
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The missiles were supposed to be taken to Louisiana, but the warheads were supposed to have been removed beforehand.

A main reason for the error was that crews had decided not to follow a complex schedule under which the status of the missiles is tracked while they are disarmed, loaded, moved and so on, one official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
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Unacceptable mistake -
The airmen replaced the schedule with their own "informal" system, he said, though he didn't say why they did that nor how long they had been doing it their own way.

"This was an unacceptable mistake and a clear deviation from our exacting standards," Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said at a Pentagon press conference with Newton. "We hold ourselves accountable to the American people and want to ensure proper corrective action has been taken."

Well I must say I just feel so much better now....annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnwwwtttt!!!!!!! No more making up your own rules when it comes to nukes! Somewhere someone has their fingers crossed!

To review previously written commentaries on this incident: Nukes on a plane........ Bent Spear Alert


commentary :: :: :: buzz-it!
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unacceptable.  If just one of those nukes had been accidentally detonated, we would have had a national crisis.  I think something of such blatant disregard for protocol should require immediate discharge.  These characters should lose their jobs, period.  

I hope they are checking all of the other missiles that these people handled.  

by standingup on Sat Oct 20, 2007 at 10:53:03 PM EST

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