re: #207 stpaulbear

They have to meet with republicans in pairs in case they later need to verify what was actually said by republicans in the meeting.

The AF had a similar policy when anyone went anywhere near a Nuke, which was called “No Lone”.

Anytime a weapon was inspected, moved, installed, or removed, two people watched the entire process so no one fucked with the Nuke.

Which just makes damn good sense.

There were failures, though. I remember a while back (12, 15 years?), a B-52H (I think out of Minot AFB in ND) flew a training mission that ended in Barksdale AFB in Shreveport. It was scheduled to carry two external sticks of six cruise missiles all without warheads, one under each wing.

When it landed at Barksdale, it was immediately noticed by the local Weapons Maintenance Squadron that one stick carried six missiles with live nukes, not blanks.

Big brouhaha. After an investigation, pretty much the entire Command Structure got replaced at Minot.