Marshall looked over the report, trying not to notice how nicely Major Tom filled her jumpsuit. “General Marshall, sir,” the curvy redhead said. Inside the communications center, Major Tommie Banks lit up when Marshall entered, Quinn right behind. Marshall worked his way through the main deck’s various compartments - a command work area, conference room, briefing room, an operations team work area, and a secondary communications compartment - and acknowledged the salutes and greetings of the admiring crew with a confident smile. “Try to keep up with me, Quinn,” Marshall said as he started up the steps. It only confirmed just how routine and insignificant these flights had become to the Department of Defense. This kid was strictly second-string, and although the switch wasn’t entirely unexpected, that General Carver at Strategic Command hadn’t bothered to give him an official heads-up about such a critical assignment bothered Marshall. He had handpicked the Looking Glass crew himself. “Flu, sir,” the intelligence officer explained eagerly.
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A “promotion to general” hatched by an insecure president to keep a war hero as far away as possible from TV crews.Īt the base of the tall stairs leading up to the six-story-high plane stood an intelligence officer Marshall had never seen before, although he recognized him from a file somewhere. So this is what Siberia feels like, Marshall thought, both of the bitter cold and his new obscure-if-critical posting. Only the small white dome on top betrayed its enhanced military capabilities.
The new model, a modified E4-B conscripted from Operation Nightwatch, had triple the floor space and was practically a dead ringer for the president’s Air Force One. Originally, the plane was an EC-135C, then an E-6 Mercury. He turned up the collar of his overcoat and bore through the curtain of white to Looking Glass, its gigantic GE 80-series engines winding up to takeoff power. The ice on the tarmac crunched under his brisk, powerful strides. Marshall gazed at the converted military Boeing 747–200 “Doomsday” jumbo jet waiting for him in the pre-dawn darkness as his black Chevy Suburban, wipers working furiously, braked to a halt and he stepped out. This morning it was General Brad Marshall’s turn to play God. Even then the Pentagon denied its existence. Only once, in the skies of September 11, 2001, has a Looking Glass plane ever been spotted by the general public. The program officially ended with the Cold War, but actually carries on under various guises and aircraft. 0500 Hours Offutt Air Force Base Omaha, NebraskaĮvery minute of every day since February 3, 1961, a Strategic Command “Looking Glass” plane carrying an Air Force general has been circling the Midwest, ready to seize control of America’s nuclear arsenal should a surprise attack destroy command posts on the ground.
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