greybeard
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The West coast would have been safe from the missiles in Cuba. Their max range was 1600 miles.
So New York, Chicago, Albuquerque, almost to Denver... Everything on the east coast, pretty much, and everything south of North Platte and east of Albuquerque.The West coast would have been safe from the missiles in Cuba. Their max range was 1600 miles.
Are you sure those are all navels GB?
I've got an old civil defense helmet hanging in my garage. Heaviest helmet I've ever had on my head.Years later they still issued Civil Defense cards, have mine somewhere. This thread had me trying to remember when CD became defunct.
Thinking early eighties.
I came along after that, in 1975, but I can remember as young child in a Catholic elementary school during the early 80's the nuns would often talk about how bad communism was.I remember.
I also remember our principal coming into our classrooms and warning us of the dangers of communism.
That hasn't happened for a very long time. Sad to say.
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1961–64. It replaced the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. The organization was renamed the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency on May 5, 1972, and was abolished on July 20, 1979, pursuant to Executive Order 12148. Its duties were given to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
My father flew off carriers in the Korean war and fought the Chinese communist pilots mano a mano. That was before they had all the technology and fired their own guns and dropped their own bombs. I was a kid under a desk at school I rememeber that. Even today and especially these days I keep the panty stocked to the ceiling and we are preppers.