Re: Sex and the Married Missileer: More about Cpt. Berry's case

>Previous poster with missile crew experience related that the mixed-sex
>crews were given a 30 minute advance notice of any visits to the silo.

I don't recall reading that post, and I would question whether the poster was
really a former crewmember because the; "30 minute heads up" call is ridiculous
for several reasons:

1. Despite its flat barron terrain of North Dakota, the radios installed in the
crew alert vehicles were not powerful enough to give a radio call 30 minutes
out, hell we had a hard enough time with certain sites giving a 10 minute out
call.

2. Often I had absolutely no clue on the gender make up of the crew I was
replacing. Technique dictated that just prior to leaving base, the on coming
deputy would call the crew on duty and see if they needed any supplies or other
items brought out.  Typically, the person awake at that hour (~0900L) was the
on duty deputy, if the deputy was not a female there was no was no way to know
if the commander was a woman unless you had the inclination to check the
schedule.

>I was just asking- apparently, your experience is that no, this didn't
>happen with your crews- but were your crews mixed-sex?
>

I've already told you, I have at least a dozen alerts with women, so obviously
we had "mixed-sex" crews. In fact, by the time I was serving in the early 90's,
every wing had "mixed-sex" crews.


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