Your father was there the same time I was. On the day our Navy was blockading the Soviet ships outside Cuba, my launch crew was on duty in the blockhouse. It's scary to think that we were within 15 minutes of launching our nuclear missiles if we received the order. The 50th's F-100s were orbiting near the East German border, and the F-104s forward deployed from Spain sat idling in pairs at the end of the runway and could launch in seconds. The situation was really tense for days.