Joseph P. Jablonski Interview, 22 February 2005
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| TT: | If people wanted to access that site it was usually maintenance, Targeting Team, I suppose that's about it? | |
| JJ: | Yeah. | |
| TT: | I suppose the maintenance guys, basically they just what, called in and you just verified that they were on the site? Or would that have to come to the— | |
| JJ: | Oh, they'd have to come to the—everybody had the code, the code pages too you had to authenticate with the capsule crew. | |
| TT: | So they'd bring their codes and keys, they'd have to come and talk to the FSC? | |
| JJ: | Well, over the radio, yeah. | |
| TT: | Right, you'd assist the maintenance guys if they needed help? | |
| JJ: | Well, if there was a maintenance team on the site, there had to be security there too. | |
| TT: | So OK, you had to be there. | |
| JJ: | Well, it wouldn't be me it would be, you know, someone that would come up with them from the base I assume. | |
| TT: | Yeah, if they're opening the silo. | |
| JJ: | Yeah. | |
| TT: | But if they go into Soft Support... | |
| JJ: | No, they'd do the authentication and everything, and they'd do everything through the capsule crew. And if it didn't look right to the capsule crew, then they'd dispatch us. | |
| TT: | Right. So you'd do 12 hours on, 12 hours off. All six of you would be out there for three days and all six of you would go back, and a new team of six would come in? | |
| JJ: | Right. Plus the capsule crew so it'd be a total of eight. Well, actually, nine with the site maintenance guy, the janitor or whatever you want to call him. And a cook too so that's ten. | |
| JJ: | You said you were at those sites, recently? | |
| TT: | Oh yeah, they are still active. They have Minuteman III's. | |
| JJ: | Yeah, they were deposturing or whatever when I was there. | |
| TT: | They got triple warhead MIRV out there now. Yeah, Grand Forks is closed down but Malmstrom and Minot and I think Whiteman and the one up in Wyoming, F.E. Warren? So the security alarms would go off on a periodic basis? | |
| JJ: | Yeah, they would always... like I said... | |
| TT: | You'd have 6, 7, 8 of them a night or something? I saw some of the figures and I was amazed at how often they were going off. But now it was usually just the outer alarms? | |
| JJ: | Yeah. | |
| TT: | I mean, did you respond to inner alarm? | |
| JJ: | We responded to both. |
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