The Atomic Marine

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It was to support military personnel while tests involving the atomic bomb were conducted. I remember Sheriff Toby Madrid, we were in his office. If you can call a broom closet with a light and a desk and an office. He had a cup of coffee in his hands and he has feet up on the desk. I mean, it was a totally laid back attitude, but I could see the tension in his jaw. The funny part about it was he wasn't looking at me and he wasn't looking at J.R. He was looking at the wall. I had this distinct impression that if he bothered to look at either one of us, we'd never hear the story. He said, they stuck us out in the middle of nowhere.

And if you've ever been out that section of Nevada, it's pretty much the middle of nowhere. And he went on to say that they told us we'd be part of an atomic bomb test. Now the name of these tests that I looked up later on was called the Desert Rock Exercises.

And this is what we call Desert Rock 4 Operation Tumblr Snapper. We said they took them out there and they were there for several days beforehand. The sheriff said they took them out there, had them dig trenches, they built defensive fortified positions, all that stuff.

Now the idea was they were to be able to stand in these or squat in them, provide for some cover. And then he said, I remembered as we were digging, there were trucks carrying tanks and jeeps and things like that. Some of the vehicles were towing artillery pieces out there. And some of the Marines he was with went out with them. And they came back to saying how they're sort of dummies that were in uniform.

And some of them were standing up, some were lying down, that kind of stuff. Now I went on to research a little bit more and it seems to be that he was out there for what they called a shot dog nuclear test. And this happened on May 1st, 1952 and involved the dropping of what we call a Mark 7 bomb. Now the Air Force was doing the drops and they were using either B-50s or B-45s to do these.

So they said the day of the test, they got them up, they had breakfast and they took them out there to the site. And they got in their trenches and did what they were told to do. They were told to crouch below the rim of the trench and have their faces down and their eyes closed when the blast happened.

Now they would get plenty of warning beforehand that this was going to happen. They'd give them a warning, the bomber would hear the bombers coming in, stuff like that, and they needed to be doing this. So they said along around 830 or so, they heard the aircraft coming in and that's when the warning happened.

So they climbed into the trenches and they got into the position they were told to get into. He said he was crouched down, he had his head down, his eyes closed and even with this, all of a sudden he said there was light. He seriously felt that he had actually seen the blast of the bomb. Now what he had witnessed here was the detonation of a 19 kiloton bomb and it exploded about a thousand meters above the ground. And then he went on to say that the light faded, but as it faded there was thunder like he'd never heard before and then there was wind. I mean the wind just came up and it was so intense it rocked him back against the back of his trench and then the wind reversed directions. He came back and pushed him face forward into the front of the trench.

And so then a few seconds later came the order to leave the trenches. So they climbed out and as he put it, we've all seen movies of the mushroom cloud an atomic bomb generates. But he says seeing that in real life it was like it just wasn't real. You know you can't wrap your mind around something like this.

And you can sit there and look at it and say something humans built generated this. And he said it was already towering up into the sky and he compared it to something that was like a cloud that was boiling up from hell. And they told him to start walking forward and they did. He went on to relate that as they moved along he started seeing some of the things had been set up a few days before like for one location you remember seeing the Sherman tank and he said it looked like the Sherman tank had been swatted aside by some giant's hand.

And then he started encountering some of these dummies had been set up. Some were almost burnt up entirely, others were smoldering. So they kept walking, they got within about three quarters of a mile of where the bomb had exploded and they stopped him. They turned him around and marched him back out of there. And he said he remembered hearing somebody saying it had gotten it was too hot to go much further. And while that basically meant it was too radioactive. Then they marched to a certain site, there they swept him off, hosed him off and he said he was actually surprised by how much dust came off of him in his platoon.

And rather than keeping the uniform he had been wearing, he wadded it up and threw it away. Like I said that's the only time that we know of, myself and JR, that Toby actually ever talked about the day of the bomb. A lot of people wound up getting sick and dying because of exposure to fallout. Thing is, I don't think a lot of people knew what they were headed for. They were at a pivotal moment in history and they didn't realize it.

I know the sheriff didn't. And this is why we routinely celebrate our veterans on this show, because our soldiers serve in so many distinct and dangerous ways. And you just heard about one.

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