Incoming! US air base thrown into panic after warning a missile was about to hit is sent to personne

[jpak]

Source: Daily Mail

For eight panic-stricken moments the airmen of a US airbase in Germany thought that they were under attack when a message was sent warning of an incoming missile attack.

The terse bright red test message was supposed to be sent to one person only, but was instead sent to all wing personnel at NATO's Spangdahlem Air Base, 100 miles west of Frankfurt.

Labeled 'high severity' the warning read: 'MISSILE INBOUND. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!'

Major Bryon McGarry told Stars and Stripes: 'One of the command post controllers was building a template for this specific thing that was posted....And he inadvertently sent it to everybody.'

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4239608/NATO-air-base-Germany-receives-false-alert.html

[SunSeeker]

1. Good thing we have experienced leaders who know not to rashly act on errors like this.

[johnp3907]

2. How are "moments" quantified?

As in "eight panic-stricken moments."

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It's the Daily Mail

so it must be some British form of time.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Like furlongs or stones or quids, I guess.

Example: "I need to set my Beta to start recording at 4 stones and 30 quids. The machine will automatically shut off in 2 furlongs."

[Kennah]

9. No where near as long as Donkey's ears (n/t)

[Rincewind]

10. A moment is a length of

time equal to 90 seconds.

[fountainofyouth]

3. Reminds of the time Stanislav Petrov helped avert nuclear war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

[Doreen]

5. Now, think about how Trump would have handled that.

Pretty scary..huh?

[EarthFirst]

7. I'd imagine something similar to this:

[Doreen]

8. Except with pants down on his golden throne with his cell phone in hand.

[joet67]

11. Practice for the next false flag? nt

[MrScorpio]

12. Spangdahlem?

Link to tweet

Fuck.