wally wrote:That's an LCC photo. They pulled both consoles, put the REACT console where the deputy's used to be, and put a bed where the commander's used to be. It's side by side, which is why they're sitting like they are--it's now a four-handed keyturn (to prevent an unauthorized launch by one person). The video screens in front of each crewmember do different things--the screen on the left consolidates all the communications systems (so all your messages show up in that screen), the one on the left displays all your weapon system status (the replacement to the LSMPs and system printer, essentially). Each crewmember has one of each screen so they can independently do what they need to do.
No relief tubes, sorry. They even upgraded the bathrooms to have real walls instead of the old curtain. MUCH more user-friendly system!
This is a better shot of what Wally's talking about; it's from H-01 at Malmstrom. The gray chairs were installed in 2003 or so, I remember that was my very first T.O. change I posted at my operational unit. The still had the red chairs at Vandenberg when I went through the schoolhouse, but had swapped them to the gray chairs by the time I got to Malmstrom. The gray panel in the right foreground is actually the door to the bathroom. The little circular patch of carpet by the deputy's chair covers a little access hatch to the DC Motor Generator switch. This is a PLCC; in the SCP, the space where the card table is at is taken up by extra SACDIN equipment and the filing cabinet is by the bed. This LCC is also pre-Netlink, since it's also got the old-school TV by the SAS container. IIRC, the cabling for the TV was long enough to reach to the console top, so a lot of people would take the TV out of its little cubby and place it on the console, rotate the chairs so they faced one another, and sit on the deputy side (the side closest to the foreground) with their feet propped up on the other chair since that was the side with the better telephone (most talking on a regular phone line was done using the STU III instead of the little black handsets integrated into the console).
Other little life-on-alert tidibts: you can see a red toolbox underneath the card table; always a pain in the butt to inventory monthly. Most crews turned off the florescent lighting and just ran off the lights that hung from the ceiling (the correct T.O. name escapes me right now). As a personal technique, I liked to keep all the lights on during the day then turn off the florescent lights when it would be night outside, then turn them on again in the morning; I felt it helped keep my body clock somewhat in line with the outside world, but off course the textbook standard was all lights on, all the time. The clothespins on the center console were not used for airing out one's socks, but to keep track of checklists one had open in their many documents. While I was on alert, I never heard of anyone using the blanket and sheets on the bed. Instead, there was a plastic tub just outside the acoustical enclosure that held sheets and pillowcases laundered on base-- most people would cover the blanket already on the bed with a clean sheet from the tub and replace the pillowcase, then bring their own blanket or sleeping bag to throw on top of that.
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