Missiles are selected at random from those operationally deployed at Minot AFB, FE Warren AFB or my old base Malmstrom AFB. Replacements are taken from the depot at Hill AFB and are in place before the test missiles launch typically. That always assures that we have the number allotted by SALT agreements on Strategic Alert.
We dropped from 500 active to 450 I seem to recall.
Is that correct?
Love the photos where the breakaway pads are shaking off. Worked with a guy who was at a B-1 base when it was nuclear; he told me about those pads. Next idea.