They did their training sorties at night and would start in the evening, a frequent alarm was smoke in cockpit, and I swear it seemed it was always around 3am. I got to where I found myself waking up around that time naturally because it was so common. In the summer it was not so bad, in the fall and winter it was miserable. We would roll out, sometimes I would be on a P-15 turret. 30 mile per hour wind and about 20 below zero riding out on the flight line when these B1's would act up. I still enjoyed it though looking back.
This is the P-15, you had a head set and pilots style helmet you would wear if you were on the turret. At Ellsworth in winter you had to keep your eyes shielded as the intense cold and wind could essentially freeze them.
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