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How many remember this drill

TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2lQmvMU170&index=51&list=PLC58C2A33B095E2FF

I remember it and the rations that were stored in schools and churches
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    paul didnt show patty much shivery did he ?[8D]
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,321 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    when I was a kid
    in grade school I vaguely remember the duck and cover I recall doing it but honest it may have been for tornado or the bomb I just do not remember all the details
    I do remember
    the fall out shelter signs on the larger buildings and make sure to get there.. ,
    the grade school took our class ( many more I am sure) on a tour of the courthouse they made sure to point out the signs and where to go too also took us into the in the basement they showed us lots of 55 gallon barrels , of water , food ( crackers I think it was ) nothing like instill fear into little kids ,
    can not image the chaos if anything ever happened today .
    I do not think polite and orderly would come into play
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wanted to grow up and be a teacher, because they never had to get down on the floor..
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We did duck and cover in California about 1962. One of the bigger guys was trained to drag a heavy track mounted curtain in front of the "wall of windows" that our classroom had.
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep in middle school
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Back in the late 70s, one of my assignments for Kelly Services was to move all the Civil Defense stores out of the Main Library on Broadway, then repack it all in the NEW Main Library's basement.
    I was stuck with a crew of vandals, thieves & druggies that started by opening each big yellow drum & ransacking them.
    One drum had 45 smelly wool blankets, another had cans of oily water, yet another had lots of brown bottles full of pills.
    The ransacking concentrated on that drum.
    I was amazed at the quantity and variety of sedatives, tranquilizers, soporifics & downers! Thousands of pills in a shelter for 150 victims.
    After the looting was over, we discovered that none of the drums had food, ammo or guns. Not even forks!
    Guess it just goes to show that relying on gubmint to CYA after a disaster is just poor planning. Maybe the Wendy's was supposed to survive....
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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We didn't bother.

    My home town, Panhandle, Tx, was just a few miles from Pantex Ordinance Plant, where they built the bomb.

    We knew we would just be cinders if the bombs ever started falling[xx(]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    back in the 70's i worked in the hghwy dept at the courthouse and the vault in the office was LOADED with instructions how every home in the county was supposed to take in evacuees from Wichita when it was nuked..also had a little box radiation detector the needed a charger to make two foil strips separate till radiation discharged them and they came back together...but NO CHARGER..all stuff TOTAL JUNK..i threw it all away....if Wichita were nuked we would have been blasted also..STUPID... but that was the drill
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Our family was stationed in France at an American airbase back before France kicked out the NATO forces. I remember the duck and cover drills in the classroom. Even then I was dubious as to the value of that against a nuclear blast. But, back then you did what the teacher instructed, no back talk. [;)]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    also remember a film of one of the first nuke tests...looking at a house blowing into a zillion pieces in 2 seconds as the blast wave hit...but i was under the desk ????
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,624 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1911a1-fan, I would have done a much better job than Paul. If I thought the end was near I would have immediately covered Patty. :)
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,891 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can remember that drill and being under the desk. I can remember being under that desk and thinking how evil the Russians were!! 40 years later I married a Russian woman. I was 100% correct all those years ago!![:D][:D][:D]
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those drills weren't very useful, but they weren't as useless as most of us think they were. If you were inside the blast area, near ground zero, not even one of those $1,000.00 bomb shelters would help you. Ground zero wasn't likely to be the school cafeteria. The main intent of those movies and drills was to calm the fears of the public. I think that part was counterproductive.

    There were survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If they had known what was going on and what to do there would have been more.

    If I could get one of those shelters for a $1,000.00 now I'd be on that deal like a chicken on a June bug. That would make a really nice "man cave". But of course that would be $20,000.00 in today's money. For that kind of money you could have a nice above ground cave.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My old fall out shelter.

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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    It's weird.

    I have no recollection of that drilll.
    My sister does. Vividly. And claims I participated enthusiastically.

    Others, younger than I recall it as well.

    I remember the movie with the turtle. And the fallout signs. We did our eye tests in the shelter room. Windowless. Kinda small.

    But no recollection of being under a desk or actually getting on the floor.
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I attended school during the 60 and 70's and never heard any of the "Russians are coming" propaganda.

    I think it was mostly aimed at the population in larger cities.

    I have an old elementary school Math book from the 40's. It is nothing but war related. I will try to find it and scan a few pages. It is funny to look at now. But I guess back then it was serious.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All too well, I also remember having to wear a tie to school
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,162 ******
    edited November -1
    I remember,,
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cbxjeff
    1911a1-fan, I would have done a much better job than Paul. If I thought the end was near I would have immediately covered Patty. :)





    yup, thats my point [:D]
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  • mackcranemackcrane Member Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had Em Here in the Hills of West Virginia. I remember "Hunker Down". We also have the Greenbrier Bunker! Take a Tour Sometime. It's Great.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    storm shelters out here in tornado country have breathing vents...glad tornados are not radioactive
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    We lived about 18 air miles from Griffis AFB. B-52's were the order of the day. Many a time I witnessed a 52, probably from Plattsburg or far beyond, attempting a sneak attack on Griffis. B-52's are pretty intimidating when one is on a hay wagon and that huge bomber is flying below you in the valley. But I digress...

    I well remember the drills. Whether it be standing in the halls facing the inner wall with our hands protecting our neck or sheltering under our desks, I always wondered if it really mattered. I figured we'd be toast should the unthinkable happen.

    I remember Kennedy speaking over the radio about the escalating Cuban crisis and wondering if I'd ever see tomorrow. Not something a youngster would like to hear. I thank God that insane men became sane when the imminent horror became so real.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,520 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remember the drills well .My school was within 10 or 12 miles of Seymour Johnson Air force base At the time it had both Tac and Sac responsibility and a B52 was always of 5 minute alert status with fully loaded nukes .No amount of duck and cover would help with all the Russian nukes pointed our way
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember duck and cover. Years went by and then things got worse, slept in our clothes with five minutes to hit company street standing at attention in full gear to fight the Russians. DI's said keep your * down or Rusky will fry it. Red Alert
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I also remember when they would have people in Kansas watching the skies and reporting any aircraft that was in the air. I think it was called civil air patrol and we were out by our local airport and funny back then how would a enemy aircraft get out in the middle of Kansas. I think I still have the pin they gave us for watching
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    In exactly none of the drills we ever did was I ever instructed to push anyone to the ground or into a wall. Sorta reminds me of this Seinfeld episode though:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u1cbZTwBx4
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • joshmb1982joshmb1982 Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not old enough to remember first hand. I remember hearing about them from my dad and I think I remember the turtle being on tv cartoons?
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I started in the 1st grade in 1955 in Knoxville, TN. As far as I know we never had any of those duck and cover drills. The only drills we ever did were fire drills.
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