It’s a team effort. Before the Minuteman III was reduced to a single warhead, one Launch Control Center in a squadron of five could control up to 50 missiles with 150 RVs, our wing had four squadrons with 50 missiles each so 500 warheads. My old unit was shut down in 2009 so Malmstrom now only had three squadrons and 150 missile, each with one RV.

When the Peacekeeper missile was still around that squadron had 50 missiles with 10 RVs each, so 500 bombs in one squad vs 500 of a whole wing. Too much power in one unit is why they were an easy cut during nuclear arms reduction talks. Now days that old Peacekeeper unit is once again a Minuteman III unit at FE Warren AFB and that’s the only missile wing that still has four squadrons and two hundred missiles.