Jos ydinsota puhkeaa niin se ei välttämättä saata johtua sen paremmin USA:n kuin Venäjän (tai muiden ydinasevaltojen politiikasta) vaan siitä että tuomiopäivän aseita hoitaa joukko sotilaita joissa moraalinen rappio rehottaa pahemmin kuin on kuviteltu. Elokuvassa miehistö kuvataan usein viimeisen päälle tiptop-kunnossa olevina terävinä tyyppeinä. Totuus on hieman toisenlainen. Useat raportit paljastavat että napin takana voi löytyä juoppoja, narkkareita, henkisesti loppuunpalaneita jopa itsetuhoisia tyyppejä.
" In May 2013, 17 ICBM launch officers at Minot were removed from their missile duties because of a long list of discipline and security failures. At the time, the deputy operations commander at Minot complained in an internal email of “rot” in his ranks.
“I think a lot of the problems in the missile world have been self-inflicted,” Capt. Adam Ross, a 341st Operations Support Squadron missile crew combat crew instructor, said in a statement this August 14.
Subsequent scandals have involved gambling, alcoholism, drug use, cheating on missile control examinations and “burnout” among Air Force personnel. At Malmstrom AFB, two lieutenants are at the center of a drug investigation — still ongoing — in which they reportedly sent messages to 11 others in the ICBM crews about “specific, illegal drug use … [including] synthetic drugs, ecstasy, and amphetamines.” This according to a 268-page report published last February by Lt. General James M. Holmes, Vice Commander of the Air Force’s training command.
The shocking revelation of our nuclear war on drugs moved Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to say in January this year, “We know that something is wrong.” Yes, and Mr. Dylan would say, “But you don’t know what it is, do you?” "
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/18/the-self-inflicted-rot-in-nuclear-missile-crews/
" In May 2013, 17 ICBM launch officers at Minot were removed from their missile duties because of a long list of discipline and security failures. At the time, the deputy operations commander at Minot complained in an internal email of “rot” in his ranks.
“I think a lot of the problems in the missile world have been self-inflicted,” Capt. Adam Ross, a 341st Operations Support Squadron missile crew combat crew instructor, said in a statement this August 14.
Subsequent scandals have involved gambling, alcoholism, drug use, cheating on missile control examinations and “burnout” among Air Force personnel. At Malmstrom AFB, two lieutenants are at the center of a drug investigation — still ongoing — in which they reportedly sent messages to 11 others in the ICBM crews about “specific, illegal drug use … [including] synthetic drugs, ecstasy, and amphetamines.” This according to a 268-page report published last February by Lt. General James M. Holmes, Vice Commander of the Air Force’s training command.
The shocking revelation of our nuclear war on drugs moved Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to say in January this year, “We know that something is wrong.” Yes, and Mr. Dylan would say, “But you don’t know what it is, do you?” "
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/18/the-self-inflicted-rot-in-nuclear-missile-crews/
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