Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, Air Force missileers sit in remote, underground bunkers where they wait for orders to flip a switch that could launch nuclear Armageddon. The millennials who populate this missile launch force can watch television, read, study or sleep in their cramped, often damp quarters. But their checklist routines are typically unvarying, their moment-to-moment responsibilities are few, and the temperature underground — like the policy requiring their presence — is unnervingly stuck in the mid-60’s. A revealing, 268-page report on this crews grim life finds evidence of drug use and other deliberate rule-breaking among the young officers. It also comments on the unrealistic Air Force expectation of zero defects, and the poor effect on morale.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:18:29 +0000
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