I was wondering what happened to the officer who failed to push the button and you answered the question for me, written up for saving the world.
In 1983 I was with the DOD, Dept. of Defense in LA. All of us were pretty hip on things that were happening at that time. We had heard that a US warplane had shadowed the airliner just before it was shot down and assumed that the Russians had thought it was one of our planes. It is news to me of the massive force we had in that area though. At that time my position was in aerospace applications and although the test area I was in was shared by the navy none of us caught on to all you posted.
I do recall how strange it was that everyone was covering Reagan in CA like they were with everything else going on. Like "Big deal, what is so special about him being on his ranch of all things?"
He must have downed quite a bit of jelly beans during that time. It was around then too, maybe earlier that in joking around he said into a mic which he thought wasn't on that we would began bombing in 30 minutes.
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