I was a Minuteman III ICBM crew member in Cheyenne Wyoming. Our Launch Control Center locations went east to Sydney Ne, North to Wheatland Wy and South to Limon Colorado or close to them. We travelled I80 a lot in USAF blue suburban's usually at a high rate of speed and dodging the state troops was a developed skill set. We couried a lot of classified material to include the documents used to authenticate execution launch messages from the national command authorities, when we did this we were armed and had a official letter saying we couldn't be stopped or searched. So one day a crew is warp speeding down the road and a Wyoming trooper starts chasing them of course these two bright crew members decide they couldn't stop so they ignore the trooper, then they enter Nebraska and a the chase is joined by two additional Nebraska troopers. One car pulls up along side of the speeding crew and gestures to the crew to pull over. The dumb ass crewmember meanwhile is pointing to his letter and shaking his head. While this chase is going on the crew radios to the missile site that they are being chased by the cops. They should have called the command post for guidance but they didn't. The launch control facilities were staffed by two security police fire teams, armed with a M16's, M60's and a M16 quipped with a grenade launcher and an armored truck. Well these highly trained idiots pull up to the facility gate which you can't just enter without authenticating which means you have to exit the truck and right behind them are the three cop cars. The cops come to a screeching halt, and jump out of their cars all pissed off with side arms drawn. While this is going on 8, 18 year old Security Policemen who think the frigging Russians are invading boil out of the facility ready to repel boarders and draw down on the cops. Finally the security controller tells the duty launch crew whats going on and after a WTF moment make the necessary calls to end this event. The cops left pissed after giving the crew a ticket, the missile cops were disappointed because they couldn't shoot anyone and the dumb ass crew got in a lot of trouble and became legends to the rest of the down trodden fellow crew members. I could write a short story of the crazy stuff that went on in the FE Warren missile complex. Some people might thing this act wasn't funny but to us it was very funny. Almost as good as the security team that hired a bunch of hookers from Denver to spend a few days with them on their tour, or the security team that got caught doing their security check from a local Wyoming bar.
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