It's OK Jarheads, Buffs Gotcher Back

Waging war the Strategic Air Command way.  Real men launch nuclear weapons.  When the nuclear arm of the Air Force has an exercise, the point of the exercise is to launch all the birds as fast as possible, called MITO (minimum interval take off), before the incoming Soviet nuke vaporizes the base.  I think the goal is to get them airborne in ten minutes after the alarm is raised.  Once the birds are launched, the hard-working maintenance men can go back to their shops and play spades for the rest of the exercise.  Grueling.  Anyway, this video shows a launch of 'alert' birds from Minot AFB.  If the flag drops, these planes will fly to their target, nuking a path before them with SRAM (Short Range Attack Missiles), and launch their cruise missiles or nuke bombs on the soon-to-be-dust enemy target.  Listen to the comments.  They call it the 'Elephant Walk' as the lumbering B-52s roll to the runway.  After a little while the video is boring.  But if you stick it out to the end, someone makes the key, awesome comment,

"Now that's American airpower right there ladies and gentlemen.   No other country in the world can do what you just saw".   Tru Dat!

Time to go play some spades.