Full Description
In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy."
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. How Did I Get Here?
Chapter 2. Those Who Can't Teach...
Chapter 3. Choose Your Service
Chapter 4. Paper Underwear
Chapter 5. What Kind of School Is This?
Chapter 6. A Cold War Education
Chapter 7. The Pointy End Goes Up, Gentlemen
Chapter 8. The Box
Chapter 9. Riders May Experience Slight Turbulence
Chapter 10. Right Justified?
Chapter 11. E(woe) Is Me
Chapter 12. California's Endless Fall
Chapter 13. Go North, Young Man
Chapter 14. Yes, But a Very Smart Monkey
Chapter 15. Sleeping on Alert
Chapter 16. The Missileer Code
Chapter 17. How to Unbutton a Launch Silo
Chapter 18. Women in the Man Cave
Chapter 19. Why So Testy?
Chapter 20. North Dakota—Vacationland USA!
Chapter 21. The Missile Olympics
Chapter 22. The Pit vs. the Cockpit
Chapter 23. The Monster in the Drawer
Chapter 24. Talking Shop
Chapter 25. It's Not the Blast That Will Kill You
Chapter 26. Grooving to the Groobers
Chapter 27. Jail Break
Chapter 28. The Cape Crusader
Index
