Emergency Action Message from Andrews AFB

Short clip of an Emergency Action Message sent over the US military's HF-GCS system. This involves using shortwave to simultaneously broadcast a message from several strategic locations. The format of the message involves NATO letters and numbers.

It is expected that nuclear go codes would be sent over this system to aircraft in flight.

For further information please see: http://microvoltradio.com/high_frequency.htm

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News & Politics

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• HF-GCS
• radio
• shortwave
• cryptography
• intelligence
• codes
• air
• force
• nuclear
• war

[UmaHuma2]

did you hear about that Emergency Action Notification deal in Springfield were a contracter was installing some EAS equitment when he used active codes to test the equitment, apparently the codes he used sent out an Emergency Action Notification over the states of Illinois, Michigan, Winsconsin, and two other states i cant remember which ones but there in the general area.

[LCduT]

No I didn't hear about that. But I think that's something else. An EAS is about alerting and informing the public during an emergency. EAMs are military comms purely for military reception.

[SkiCoach1]

Sounds like the real deal. I used to be a missile launch control officer up in WY.

[LCduT]

Sounds fascinating. Do you have any interesting stories?

[LCduT]

Would be Andrews AFB, although the HF-GCS system relays the signal to pretty much any point on the planet.

[SkiCoach1]

First, shit your pants. Then figure out if the EAM is real or not. If it's real, wake up your crew partner, wait for him to validate, shit his pants, then figure out if you should really turn keys on a valid, actual launch message. Once you turn keys, Crack open the supply rations, start praying to Allah, Jesus, Buddah, Jaweh, Koresh and Moroni and hope that one of the prayers saves your sorry ass because you probably have about 30 minutes of life left after key turn when an inbound msl hits.

[umahuma4]

dont you both have to be awake, because both of you have to write down the message, and then compare them. If here both the same, then there valid, then you open up the ltitle red box and see if its authentic, then if its authentic then your allowed to shit your pants

[TheConsciousInsanity]

lmao 20,000 Really?

[lstn74]

@lstn74 I think youre full of shit it was people like you that got Kennedy scared and then killed. treasonous SOB

[ChristopherSaindon]

WOW SkiCoach is really 110 years old?

[ChristopherSaindon]

Also anybody who does know about that crisis I had a serious question: the B52s flew in "phugoid" style during cold-war standard 24/7 airborne alerts correct? Did they maintain this after being assigned targets and fly in that inefficient but harder-to-track manner or did they straighten out and go straight in? Also is it true it was about 2 hours to the end for the USSR and about 40 minutes for the US..not the 1/2 day to day we typically hear about? Man I would have aged 10 years that night :-(

[ChristopherSaindon]

@lstn74 Wow. They had a second Cuban Missile Crisis I haven't heard about? :-) You mean after? I am not being a smartass if you were really there it was just a typo and I'd really like to hear what that was like. If you weren't then yes I am being an absolute smartass.

[lstn74]

@SkiCoach1 You dont know what youre talking about. I was an on seen Commander back in 65 during Cuban Missle Crisis.

[xzaxwarudox]

@BARRIEMOREBARLOW I tried to imagine the military broadcasting "Delta . . . Foxtrot . . . Eggy" and was rewarded with uncontrollable giggling fits lasting anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. thanks a lot, bunghole.

[SkiCoach1]

probably "echo". look up the phonetic alphabet.

[FylthyBeest]

@CrewDog1976 You are authentic. "Skybird, this is the SAC Airborne Command Post with a test of the Primary Alerting System Back Door Circuitry. Numbered Air Forces, switch in your Alternate PAS Circuits, activate your Warble Tone Generators, and standby . . Skybird, this is the SAC Airborne Command Post with a test of the Primary Alerting System Back Door Circuitry. Acknowledge, now . . . Numbered Air Forces, acknowedge by voice . . . 8th Air Force, Over . . . 15th Air Force, Over . . . Out."

[RmanDC]

@SkiCoach1 was it really like in "war games"?