I was on alert at Fairchild AFB, when this movie came out on HBO in 1990.
Everybody from the Crew Chiefs to the flight crews crammed in to the crew
lounge and the briefing room to watch it. By Dawn's early light was a very
funny movie to us at the 325th bomb Squadron.
It is important to note:
1. At the time we did not have Female crewmembers, only the KC-135 tankers
had them.

2. The 92BW had B-52Hs on alert, not the make of a G model D model crap they
had. I have never been able to walk from the Defense station to the IP
seat standing straight up before. The IFR bathtub would bite your head.

3. The Alert pad was off the runway, and as you drive your POV to the
facility you do not drive up a row of bombers. POVs where not allowed on the
flight line. To do so would have you finding out what the word JACK-UP
meant.

There are many other examples in this movie that made us all laugh out loud.
But the best was how the co-pilot kept correcting the Aircraft commander. Oh
the 325th patch on the flight suits where from the Second World War, not the
one worn by us in 1990.

Way to many errors to list here, just another bad movie about the boys in
SAC or the Air Force. Not as bad as some that has come out, but bad just the
same.

Now Bomber B52 was an all right movie, and a gathering of eagles. Strategic
Air Command was more about the early days of SAC with B36s and B47s, but was
cool just the same.