Equipped with up to ten warheads each, the Peacekeepers stood 71 feet high and weighed 195,000 pounds. “The sounds and smells you never forget.”Īguirre and a team of crewmembers of the 400th Missile Squadron babysat the Peacekeepers, once the Air Force’s most powerful weapons, and were responsible for detonating the missiles should the time ever come (fortunately, it never did). “It’s difficult to explain the sense you have down there, but it’s a lot like being in a submarine,” Aguirre tells. Air Force and the State of Wyoming are working to capture every detail of the sole remaining Peacekeeper missile alert facility, Quebec-01-a Cold War stronghold with a chilling past. Aguirre’s workday started with a journey 100 feet below ground-a trip that visitors will soon be able to experience for themselves. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Peter Aguirre can still recall the musty smell of military-grade paint and stagnant air that defined his long stays inside one of the missile alert facilities built beneath the F. military decommissioned the last Peacekeeper missile. They have since developed what they call the Open Skies Project with a group of family and friends with a mission to restore the property.It’s been over a decade since the U.S.
Garner and Ian Sorensen from lower Michigan put in a winning bid of $250,000. Then, last year, Keweenaw County auctioned off the property. The site permanently closed around 2005 and has sat dormant ever since. And because most of the students that were up here were not from this county, they were no longer to receive funding for them so that program was shut down,” Garner said. “Unfortunately, shortly after that started, within a span of a few years actually, the state changed the funding model for students. The Calumet Air Force Station closed in 1988 and then became a reform school called the Keweenaw Academy. We needed as a country early warning radar to see if was sending any bombers over the Arctic Circle.” “They were built after World War II as the Cold War started to ignite. “The Calumet Air Force Station was a group of radar stations that were all commissioned in the late ’40s, early ’50s, I believe there are about 30 of them all across the northern U.S.,” said Zach Garner, a member of Open Skies Project. It’s so hidden that many people have forgotten what it once was: the Calumet Air Force Station. ( WJMN) - Hidden in the vast forests of the Keweenaw Peninsula sits a piece of the area’s history.
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