Most likely routine, but can't say for sure!! I do know that during my career we opened the silo doors, for real, 6 times over my 20 years. Thank God we never had to launch. Those 6 days were very very scary.
We have a lot of army types from that Nike site in Riverview living on our street. The government leased a number of houses for family housing. The base did not have any. There were several FBI agents living in those houses as well. Wh\ithall those people we living there, along with the cop that lived next door, the crime rate on our block was NIL!!
There was a man across the street by the name of MSG Flame. He brought home a rope one day from the base. It was a large diameter manila rope, several hundred feet long. It was summer and hot, no one had AC in their houses at that time and on weekends people sat out on the porches till very late, kids playing everywhere. Well, the MSG brought out that rope on one of those nights. We had one of the worlds biggest "tug-o-wars" that night in the street. People came form all over the neighborhood, there were hundreds of people out on that rope that night. What fun!! It was a far different world back then. I miss that world.
