The Malfeasance of the US Military. Fallible and Negligent Men Armed to the Teeth with Missiles and Nuclear Bombs
In 2015,
ninety-two American missile officers were suspended because they had
been cheating, taking drugs, or sleeping in the missile silos. These men
are employed to guard and to operate 150 nuclear
missiles at F.E.
Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming which constitutes one-third of the 400
Minuteman 3 missiles that stand “on hair trigger alert” 24 hours a day
in silos which are scattered across the northern Great Plains.
Two officers
aged between 22 and 27 are in charge of each missile silo, and each man
is armed with a pistol to shoot the other if one shows signs of deviant
behaviour.
The missile
silos are equipped with antiquated equipment including floppy disks and
telephones that often don’t work. Each Minuteman 3 missile contains
three hydrogen bombs, almost 50 times the explosive power of the
Hiroshima bomb. The officers in charge of these deadly weapons are
clearly expected to follow strict behavioural standards at all times.
During the
investigation, fourteen airmen had allegedly been using cocaine. Other
drugs involved were ecstasy, cocaine, LSD and marijuana. All in all
roughly one hundred officers were involved in the cheating scandal in
2015 and 2016.
Airman 1st Class Nickolos A. Harris,
said to be the leader of the drug ring, testified that he had no
trouble obtaining LSD and other drugs from civilian sources and he
pleaded guilty to using and distributing LSD plus ecstasy, cocaine and
marijuana.
A side note – because LSD had showed up so infrequently in drug tests
across the military, in December 2006 the Pentagon eliminated LSD
screening from standard drug-testing procedures.In more episodes of gross malfeasance, 2013 Vice Admiral Timothy Giardina, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, was sacked for illegal gambling while Major General Michael Carey, a man in charge of all of the 450 intercontinental ballistic missile silos, was dismissed after a visit to Moscow when he became inebriated and insisted on singing in Russian night clubs, while cavorting with inappropriate women.
Considering
all of these facts among many others, it is amazing to me that we are
still here having not been incinerated in a global nuclear holocaust.
Suffice it to say, we are in the hands of fallible men armed to the
teeth with missiles and hydrogen bombs.
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Copyright © Helen Caldicott, Global Research, 2018
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