lol Washington State just had like 7/8ths of a BROKEN ARROW lmao
that one didn't have a warhead, but they probably didn't know that when they got the call and sent an EOD tech.
these rockets were made before PAL, the Permissive Action Link that prevents nuclear weapons from being used without central sign-off, aka, if this had a warhead it would have been one of the spiciest broken arrow events in history outside of those two nuclear bombs we dropped on Goldsboro, North Carolina.
I haven't eaten yet today.
Anyway it's not often I have an actual, audible reaction to reading something on wikipedia but this did it for me. I'll leave the context out because I cba sorr
Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It's on arm.'
Turns out it was broken from falling and probably was not actually armed but oof oof.
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