i wonder whatever happened to the brass dogtags they had us wear during the drills?
Posted on 01/07/2018 7:48:10 AM PST by SandRat
Sixty years ago, in 1951, Ray Maurer and Anthony Rizzo produced a film for the federal government's Civil Defense agency in response to Soviet nuclear tests. Featuring an animated turtle named Bert and real-life schoolchildren from New York, the film, Duck and Cover, IT RETURNS
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You will see the lightning flashing, hear atomic thunders roll
When Moscow lies in ashes, God have mercy on your soul.
Here's a question, Mr. Stalin, and it's you who must decide:
When atomic bombs start falling, do you have a place to hide?
In the early 60’s, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was a senior in high school, and was designated as one of the emergency, senior, school bus drivers - charged with transporting students to their homes in the even of a nuclear attack (like we would have ever made it).
They trained us on driving one of those old school buses (straight shift with double-clutching low)...we got to drive about two miles...that was the extent of the training.
That we before “forced busing” came on the scene, and the county only had about six buses, all total (now there’s about 200).
History repeats itself.
Duck and cover, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
CC
I am a little younger than you. I grew up near a SAC base. My fifth grade teacher was the wife of a B52 pilot.
One day, in a moment of candor that a fifth grade teacher should have avoided she explained the likely result of a nuclear exchange with the Russians.
Something along the lines of multiple warheads hitting the area because they are not particularly accurate. Then she said not to be afraid because there was nothing we could do about it. It would be the same as being scared of the weather or the moon.
It didn’t scare me. In fact, it made sense to me.
And people say that you don’t learn anything in the public school.
Duck and cover protects a person from absolutely nothing with regard to a nuclear explosion and its aftermath.
Therefore, it must be a government run program.
I used to work with a guy who said he wanted to be at “ground-zero” if they dropped the bomb...he’d rather go right away, than die slowly from radiation poisoning.
He was right.
Duck and cover protects a person from absolutely nothing with regard to a nuclear explosion and its aftermath.
When atomic bombs start falling, do you have a place to hide?
No wouldn’t want to live in the aftermath no normal and everything contaminated.
This was 54 years ago. Based on DPRK targeting, and the current political demographics of our major cities, 20,000,000 vaporized democrats and the sudden appearance of the North Korean Sea, this is a win-win...
There were three standard siren patterns - - duck and cover, evacuate, and one other ...
It might work if you’re 20+ miles from the blast as the biggest problem is debris from the shock wave.
I was in elementary school, on a military airbase in the south east.
The drills had a special sense of urgency...
I was - and still am - in Georgia, near Atlanta.
North Korea doesn’t have that many bombs.
Shelter in place if one has gone off a few miles from where you live (as far away from the radiation as possible - basements etc) then after a week when you hear the ‘all clear’ drive to the next town over that wasn’t nuked and fight with your insurance company...
If a tornado was approaching, you would do the things that increased your chances of survival, right? This is the same... it’s NOT the old USSR with 4,000 nukes...it’s a crazy man with 4 or 5.
i wonder whatever happened to the brass dogtags they had us wear during the drills?
They were changed to rectangle light stee. They both had our Mil Service number on then them. Then that @#* peanut farmer president had us all get new tags, and that @#* peanut farmer presiden had our SSAN on them, that #### #@*****!
Air Force brat here. I remember all of this. I got in big trouble during one drill. I stayed seated at my desk and told the teacher “Do you really think being under a desk is going to make a difference if a nuke goes off?” Daddy told me to just humor them.
carter, feh... /spit
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