Boeing's Minuteman III ICBM's near 50 years in service

For nearly 50 years, men and women have worked in underground bunkers, watching over the missiles that have acted as a deterrent to attacks on the U.S. since the time before there was an Internet, before cell phones or fax machines.

The Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system began its watch in 1962 and is still today at the ready, if called upon, to deliver nuclear warheads toward hostile targets thousands of miles away.

Retired Air Force officer Don Adams now works as a systems engineer for Boeing in Huntsville, but before that spent a career commanding and then maintaining the Minuteman III system, the last iteration of the country’s land-based ICBMs.

“Most people get into missiles and it’s not something that they want to do,” Adams said, but he enjoyed his work.

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(Alabama Political Reporter)