Minuteman tour
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 12:02PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett


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Last remaining Minuteman silo site off I-90 in S.D. We go on short tour here, in the middle of nowhere.

It's the last silo from the 150 missiles that used to be clustered in southern S.D. Something like 450 MM still active.


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Best attempt to capture training missile in silo thru glass.


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Sense of the cap that would track off to left to uncover silo.


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Veteran Minuteman missileer explaining launch room.


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Launch board (just flip switch)


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Missileer explains launch procedure.

This guy the only man to actually launch Minuteman from U.S. soil in '65 test.

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