Maybe the Navy just fired one up to mess with Obama during his trip.
The Navy senior brass are so feminized and leftized none of them would want to authorize the firing of an ICBM under any circustances. And they sure as heck are not gonna fire one to embarrass their man, Onada.
I see the media are buying into the contrail story. I guess they finally got their talking points from The Usurper-in-Chief.
I could see a crew—or crew members—wanting to launch an ICBM just to stick it up the Brass’ ass—so to speak. But there are so many fail safes in place that it would be hard to do.
At least that was my experience in 155 artillery battalion. We could fire nukes, but gun crews in the unit who were selected to fire those rounds underwent rigorous training. They had to be certified. Moreover, we did not keep nukes in our basic load. Special munitions people would bring them to us if we were to receive a nuclear mission.