Talk:Volk Field Air National Guard Base

Cuban Missile Crisis Incident

It makes sense to anybody to disperse your assets when they are under threat of attack, but dispersing interceptors to a small, remote base without a control tower was potentially dangerous in 1962.

I understand Doomsday was misleading though (although thrilling as hell). It gave the impression that an attack on the base would precede a nuclear attack. The mistake mentioned in the program was that the sentry was firing at an animal, not a saboteur, as the sentry discovered after making the radio call from the Jeep. I am discouraged that the program did not mention the miswiring of the saboteur alarm that was activated (and not by the sentry) after the radio call.Chris-marsh-usa (talk) 03:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris-marsh-usa (talk • contribs) 03:51, 18 June 2010 (UTC) 

The actual events depicted in a re-creation in Doomsday were more or less as follows. A literal reading is consistent with a miswired alarm but that is not what the program implied. (You can view the video online from position 26:21 onward, refer to the reference.)

(Chain link fence rustling)

Sentry dressed in green with earmuffs: "Who goes there? Stop or I'll shoot!" (Discharges a round from what looks like an M1 carbine, runs to Jeep and radios in.). "I've got people climbing the fence and shots have been fired, sir."

Security command: Hits a button to activate a Klaxon that awakens pilots at Volk Field; pilots dress and assemble into their F-106 aircraft.

Sentry returns to chain link fence, discovers black bear.

Narrator explains that aircraft could not be recalled because Volk did not have a control tower.

Truck driven by "quick-thinking duty officer" on Tarmac at Volk to warn F-106 pilots to abort takeoff at last possible minute.Chris-marsh-usa (talk) 01:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

That was simply one close call of many in less than fifty years (1949-1997) between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most recent depicted on Doomsday the Norwegian Weather Rocket Incident in 1995.

Assessment of the producers is that proliferation will in the long run of human history proceed unchecked and that eventually a nuclear exchange in the long run of human history is inevitable due to war or accident. New nuclear rivals like Pakistan and India, or between Israel and one or more Muslim countries, might not appreciate the fragility of command and control systems to numerous human mistakes over time. Finally compares a terrorist nuclear attack on an unsuspecting civilian population with the attack on Hiroshima's unwitting denizens.Chris-marsh-usa (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:01, 19 June 2010 (UTC).

Question: Would Saboteurs Try To Attack a Military Installation Before a Nuclear War?

Look, I am not a soldier or veteran or anything. It seems stupid to try to infiltrate an enemy's bases when you can just blow them away. Why was the guard anticipating a possible saboteur team during the Cuban Missile Crisis?Chris-marsh-usa (talk) 09:16, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I was soldier and it makes perfect sense. If you can destroy the enemies Air Force on the ground that takes them out of play all together. The interceptors based at Volk would have been responsible for the defense of Green Bay, a city of several million people, against manned Soviet Bombers. If the aircraft are destroyed on the ground they can't intercept the bombers. FLJuJitsu 1055, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Ha Ha!! Nice try. Green Bay had a population of 63,000 in 1960. 32.218.152.183 (talk) 17:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Green Bay proper, yes. The Green Bay Metro... no. Miami for example is only 400,000 yet the Miami metro is 5.5 million. With major cities when people give population numbers in general they're talking about the metro. FLJuJitsu 1055, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Sounds Hilarious

Lol, bear attacks nuclear base, starting defcon 3. Irony. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.189.191.15 (talk) 15:06, 22 April 2013 (UTC)