The commander of Air Force Space Command closed the three-day 50th anniversary commemoration of the ICBM at the base theater here Oct 9, 2009. <\/p>\n
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
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. The commander of Air Force Space Command closed the three-day 50th anniversary commemoration of the ICBM at the base theater here Oct 9, 2009. <\/p>\n Gen. C. Robert Kehler, AFSPC commander, expressed gratitude for all attendees of the ceremony, which i…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","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\/3640","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/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=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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