F-106A 57-2476, 84th FIS Castle AFB CA in 1978. This was the fuel maintenance area and also the aircraft wash rack at Castle. The red line in the foreground denotes the secure parking area of the 84th FIS. There are no hardened shelters here. The berm you see to the right helps to deflect the jet blast from KC-135s on the other side.
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Dragon - Thursday 24 January 2019 08:13
There were times when we had aircraft stacked up waiting to get into that quonset hut. Seemed like fuel leaks were a contagious rash - especially in the summer.
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Michael E. (Mickey) Rountree, LtCol USAF (Ret) - Monday 15 February 2016 14:05
I spent about a third of my life in this alert facility (Jul 73 - Oct 74).

At that time, there was a major issue for me -- life insurance! I could not be happy with coverage that cost me twice as much as other flying officers. Here's why: Because I flew a single-engine fighter, I had to pay a 2X price for life insurance. But every day I sat on alert, I watched KC-135s, with the old, water-injected engines, use up all but the last few bricks of the 12,000 ft runway to strain to get airborne. Here is the rub. If my F-106 engine failed, I could either eject, of so a flameout landing. Either way, I walk away. BUT, for the 135, if any engine failed on takeoff, then the entire crew likely dies - - and the 135 has FOUR TIMES the number of engines, thus 4X the probability of an engine failure!

Mickey Rountree