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dusty wrote:Yes, it is plastic. I also have a Thermos bottle that Dad carried. I keep it in a safe place in the kitchen.

I had a lunch box similar to the one you show but I think it was of much less quality. It did not hold up well; maybe I just didn't take care of it. I used it whenever I worked a shift that required I eat in the missile silo. More than once it took the quick trip to the bottom.

robinson46176 wrote:This last week I spent about 2 hours on three different days working in the farm shop just sorting hand tools and other bits and pieces that I largely acquired this last year. I probably moved about 300 items each of the three days and even I can barely tell that anything has been moved to a proper home... Mostly wrenches, sockets, screw drivers, specialty pliers (like for snap rings etc.), punches, chisels and machinist tooling. If another person had looked the week before and looked again today they might swear that I have moved nothing. Still, "I" know what has been properly placed.
On the up side today I attended one of the several annual consignment auctions that we normally go to and I didn't buy a single thing...

There are a lot of jobs much like shop sorting that can seem like it will never end then suddenly one day you look up and realize that you are done... Well, almost done.

You've got this Dusty.


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jsburger wrote:

dusty wrote:Yes, it is plastic. I also have a Thermos bottle that Dad carried. I keep it in a safe place in the kitchen.

I had a lunch box similar to the one you show but I think it was of much less quality. It did not hold up well; maybe I just didn't take care of it. I used it whenever I worked a shift that required I eat in the missile silo. More than once it took the quick trip to the bottom.

I am surprised you were allowed to take a lunch box into a silo. When I worked aircraft you could not have any jewelry or anything in your pockets when on the flight line when you got next to or in an aircraft. I am sure you know that.

I have never been in a missile silo but I have been in an LCF (The underground launch control facility for multiple missile silos for those that don't know) at Ellsworth AFB when I was stationed there on B-52's. The capsule that the two operators live in is a hardened box on shock absorbers with a blast proof door.

dusty wrote:

jsburger wrote:

dusty wrote:Yes, it is plastic. I also have a Thermos bottle that Dad carried. I keep it in a safe place in the kitchen.

I had a lunch box similar to the one you show but I think it was of much less quality. It did not hold up well; maybe I just didn't take care of it. I used it whenever I worked a shift that required I eat in the missile silo. More than once it took the quick trip to the bottom.

I am surprised you were allowed to take a lunch box into a silo. When I worked aircraft you could not have any jewelry or anything in your pockets when on the flight line when you got next to or in an aircraft. I am sure you know that.

I have never been in a missile silo but I have been in an LCF (The underground launch control facility for multiple missile silos for those that don't know) at Ellsworth AFB when I was stationed there on B-52's. The capsule that the two operators live in is a hardened box on shock absorbers with a blast proof door.

You should be surprised, My post was poorly stated. Not to the bottom of the silo (where the missile resided) but to the lower level of the entry portal (level 1). Level 1 included the service elevator, the stair case and the first security check point.

dusty wrote:

jsburger wrote:

dusty wrote:Yes, it is plastic. I also have a Thermos bottle that Dad carried. I keep it in a safe place in the kitchen.

I had a lunch box similar to the one you show but I think it was of much less quality. It did not hold up well; maybe I just didn't take care of it. I used it whenever I worked a shift that required I eat in the missile silo. More than once it took the quick trip to the bottom.

I am surprised you were allowed to take a lunch box into a silo. When I worked aircraft you could not have any jewelry or anything in your pockets when on the flight line when you got next to or in an aircraft. I am sure you know that.

I have never been in a missile silo but I have been in an LCF (The underground launch control facility for multiple missile silos for those that don't know) at Ellsworth AFB when I was stationed there on B-52's. The capsule that the two operators live in is a hardened box on shock absorbers with a blast proof door.

You should be surprised, Poorly stated. Not to the bottom of the silo (where the missile resided) but to the lower level of the entry portal.

jsburger wrote:

dusty wrote:

jsburger wrote:
I am surprised you were allowed to take a lunch box into a silo. When I worked aircraft you could not have any jewelry or anything in your pockets when on the flight line when you got next to or in an aircraft. I am sure you know that.

I have never been in a missile silo but I have been in an LCF (The underground launch control facility for multiple missile silos for those that don't know) at Ellsworth AFB when I was stationed there on B-52's. The capsule that the two operators live in is a hardened box on shock absorbers with a blast proof door.

You should be surprised, Poorly stated. Not to the bottom of the silo (where the missile resided) but to the lower level of the entry portal.

Ah, OK. You worked the Titan. Ellsworth (44th Strategic Missile Wing) had Minuteman missiles so the LCF(LCC) I was in was a Minuteman facility. Same idea but different configuration. The Looking Glass (KC-135) aircraft airborne command post for the airborne capability to launch Minuteman missiles was flown from Ellsworth at times. I was stationed at Ellsworth from 1977 to 1980.

This is what I went into while it was active.

http://w3.uwyo.edu/~jimkirk/minuteman.html

dusty wrote:

jsburger wrote:

dusty wrote:
You should be surprised, Poorly stated. Not to the bottom of the silo (where the missile resided) but to the lower level of the entry portal.

Ah, OK. You worked the Titan. Ellsworth (44th Strategic Missile Wing) had Minuteman missiles so the LCF(LCC) I was in was a Minuteman facility. Same idea but different configuration. The Looking Glass (KC-135) aircraft airborne command post for the airborne capability to launch Minuteman missiles was flown from Ellsworth at times. I was stationed at Ellsworth from 1977 to 1980.

This is what I went into while it was active.

http://w3.uwyo.edu/~jimkirk/minuteman.html

Security Rules would not have been much different. Both (all Titan and Minuteman Sites) are/were Top Secret control areas.

All containers brought onto the site were physically inspected prior to entry (at the Entry Portal).