Shift Preparation News Today

Trouble and heart break that we caused today. we spent the last few months trying to get ahead of this whole threat so that we could provide as much notification and preparation time for the public. today was something that i regret because i accept responsibility for this. this is my team. we made a mistake. were going to take processes and study so this doesnt happen again. let me go over -- you were distributed today a press release, hard copy. theres a time line in there. i would like to spe...

A 0:085 this morning, my 24/7 operating group did a change of shift preparation, and the new incoming shift will do a check, a test, of the ballistic missile operation check list. at 0:805 this started. 0:807 is when the trigger was pulled on the test. the wrong button was pushed on this test. it went into an actual event versus a test. at 8:10 a.m., we, of course, got messages on our system. the telephones and so on and calls, that this had gone out, and at that point in time, we started the re...