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This was an Atlas F missile silo of the 550th Strategic Missile Squadron.

Operational from April 1961 to June 1965.

The missile was stored vertically underground and sat atop an elevator. When the time came to launch, it would be lifted to to surface.

1 posted on 07/25/2012 6:18:11 AM PDT by moonshot925
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2 posted on 07/25/2012 6:26:24 AM PDT by moonshot925
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Interesting video. Check out the bats in your ‘man cave’!


3 posted on 07/25/2012 6:28:42 AM PDT by fellowgeek (To geek or not to geek.)
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Have to read for later....


5 posted on 07/25/2012 7:12:17 AM PDT by CORedneck
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Ooooo...I saw some politically incorrect graffiti! LOL!


6 posted on 07/25/2012 7:18:45 AM PDT by left that other site
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The 550th SMS has a really good Wiki and includes a map to all the sites. The seller is non-specific on which location he is offering so it was interesting to look at the map of all the possibilities. Two of the sites are in the same county where I own a farm I inherited so the pictures on the e-Bay listing seem pretty familiar.


8 posted on 07/25/2012 7:50:15 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Group buy on a bunker?

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9 posted on 07/25/2012 7:51:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I want one!


12 posted on 07/25/2012 9:14:59 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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Do a search on “earthscraper” or http://io9.com/5845777/the-earthscraper-a-65+story+tall-skyscraper-buried-underground/gallery/1

How about underground home - http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=underground+home&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35


13 posted on 07/25/2012 10:07:14 AM PDT by Perseverando (Gun control? It's the OBOTS who are filling up prisons for violent crimes, not the Tea Party.)
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