{"id":63578,"date":"2015-12-29T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63578"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T19:37:40","slug":"john-bordne-secret-squirrel-and-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63578","title":{"rendered":"John Bordne; secret squirrel and World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"

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C B sends us links to stories about this John Bordne fellow who was a missile mechanic on Okinawa on October 28, 1962. You might remember that was during the “Cuba Missile Crisis”. Bordne claimed earlier this year<\/a> his unit received orders to launch their nuclear missiles that day, but that now-deceased Captain William Bassett received those orders, but held his launch officers at gun point to prevent them from entering launch codes.<\/p>\n

The men with their fingers on the trigger were ready to launch the nukes, but by Bordne\u2019s recollection, the Captain stalled again and ordered two armed airmen to \u201cshoot the [lieutenant] if he tries to launch without [either] verbal authorization from the \u2018senior officer in the field\u2019 or the upgrade to DEFCON 1 by Missile Operations Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

After the crisis had passed Bassett reportedly told his men: \u201cNone of us will discuss anything that happened here tonight, and I mean anything. No discussions at the barracks, in a bar, or even here at the launch site. You do not even write home about this. Am I making myself perfectly clear on this subject?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the fact that no one can verify Bordne’s story, the Japanese media published it anyway. From Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m as sure as I am of my name that this never happened,\u201d said Gene Stirewalt, 74, of Salisbury, N.C.<\/p>\n

In interviews with Stars and Stripes, six other airmen who were assigned to the Okinawa missile sites with Bordne during the Cuban Missile Crisis disputed the truth of his account. Meanwhile, the Air Force said its historians have looked into the alleged incident but have been unable to find any record of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bordne claims that the reason no one else will talk about it is because none of the others have been cleared to talk about the episode;<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m the only one who has been cleared to talk about it,\u201d Bordne told Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n

Other missileers who dispute him are either lying about being on duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis or are jealous of not receiving Air Force approval to discuss the near-launch, he said.<\/p>\n

Now at the center of a Cold War controversy, the former enlisted airman has a thick manuscript, a memoir of the near-launch and his time in the Air Force, which he hopes to have published.<\/p>\n

Bordne said he first envisioned writing about the alleged incident while coming out of the missile bunker on Okinawa in 1962.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, as the articles point out, the Japanese don’t like nukes on their soil, so naturally they want to paint the US as a war mongering hegemonic power, so there’s always some fame-seeking phony looking to cash in on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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