{"id":3502,"date":"2009-10-09T21:53:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T01:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123172229"},"modified":"2009-10-09T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T01:53:51","slug":"emergency-action-message-transmits-afspccc-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Emergency action message transmits AFSPC\/CC feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of Air Force Space Command closed the three-day 50th anniversary commemoration of the ICBM at the base theater here Oct 9.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. C. Robert Kehler, AFSPC commander, expressed gratitude for all attendees of the ceremony, which included Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley; Maj. Gen. Roger Burg, Twentieth Air Force commander; and the many Airmen who work in the ICBM field, either operating, maintaining, supporting or securing missiles.<\/p>\n<p>He closed the events by simulating an incoming emergency action message, which is a message that transmits into an ICBM launch control center requiring special decoding to find the meaning. Using checklists and decoding manuals, missileers translate the letters into direction: It can be as simple as a weather advisory or as important as the president ordering a missile launch.<\/p>\n<p>The message began with a signal sounding like a real EAM transmission. General Kehler phonetically spelled the mock message to attendees of the ceremony, gi<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123172229\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of Air Force Space Command closed the three-day 50th anniversary commemoration of the ICBM at the base theater here Oct 9.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. C. Robert Kehler, AFSPC commander, expressed gratitude for all attendees of the ceremony, which included Secr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}