Santa Maria Times
Soldiers of the 100th Missile Defense Brigade were stationed at their consoles on March 25, 2019, standing a round-the-clock watch inside a secret location at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
Col. Chris Williams, brigade commander, was manning a console along with several colleagues when they received an alert of an in-bound intercontinental ballistic missile launched at the US.
The soldiers took immediate action and, within seconds, initiated a sequence that launched two interceptor missiles from Vandenberg Air Force Base in a salvo, meaning one right after the other, and struck the ICBM reentry vehicle in the earth’s atmosphere.
The ICBM was a test and was launched 4,000 miles away from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in an exercise to test the Brigade’s readiness in protecting the U.S. against such threats.
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