THIS IS A LONG READ...BUT WORTH IT FOR THOSE WHO WERE PART OF THE BOMBER AND TANKER FORCE:

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9631980444/m/799100635

ANY ADDITIONS WOULD BE WELCOMED...AND A BIG WELL DONE TO THOSE WHO WON THE PEACE...SALUTE!!

RONCO
Never in the USAF, nor SAC, However, have a sea story that pertains.
Living on Guam in 1960-61, at NAS Agana, VW1.
My family and I would make trips to Anderson AF. base, north tip of Guam for a commissary run. The base had a great PX and we knew a couple in the SAC Maintenance organization. He had Alert Watches, so he said, and this entailed some 24 hours out of the family house.
Anyway, we were visiting, doing our shopping and what not. On the way out, by the USAF Enlisted barracks, we passed a line of blue sedans, various trucks and vehicles, all parked near the barracks. Just as we cleared this area, the klaxon goes off. Now this is a mounted horn, on a pole, just to our left. LOUD and ear splitting. The barracks erupts with folks clad in every imaginable gear, some with just a towel around them. Into the vehicles, and screaming off to the flight line. We are on a slight rise to the edge of the barracks area, so I pulls over, out of the way. Looking down and to the right, we see the B47s and B36s start engines, the vehicles are pulling close to the aircraft, and the klaxon is deafening.
Shortly, the far right aircraft starts to roll, followed closely by the next and the next and the next. Spouse and kid are wide eyed, I am now really concerned. Looks like a real go for it all, launch. So, I move out smartly to the gate, which is now tightly closed. No way out to NAS Agana and a recall. We are locked down on a USAF base.
Needless to say, the launch was a drill, even though some birds did get off the runway.
My USAF buddy was on Alert that day, and he later related that the drill started for real, then was recalled.
A hair raiser for sure, SAC bases were ready and waiting in those days.
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