[Homer]

The secret alien caves of west fort hood!

Per the USACE preservation study-
Robert Gray AFB/AAF and the Q Area (Killeen Base) was a 50s-60s era AEC/Sandra Corp. national stockpile and maintenance site with 123 storage igloos, 2 weapons assembly plants and a thermonuclear weapon maintenance site. The Army provided site security and special weapons movement while the USAF provided a secure airfield and air transportation. KGRK had no assigned A/C and no hangarage; but it did have over 300k GAL of underground fuel storage, full ATC and GCA, and a 10k ft heavyweight runway with hammerheads and a small ramp space . It’s expanded and still in use today accommodating fully loaded USAF C-5s, CRAF 747s, and the occasional tanker.

So, pretty easy to use it as a dispersal for B-1s, B-52s, or tankers. Although probably B-1s because they were built with “bare base” operations in mind. The only sticky piece will be escape in the event of an alert scramble. A southern departure requires a fairly quick turn during climbout to avoid Bergstrom AFB (another likely dispersal assuming it wasn’t BRACd). A northern departure requires aircraft to thread the needle between Carswell and Dyess, as well as any pattern designed to catch escapees. Of course, SAC/ACC won’t know the exchange plays out the way it does in cannon!

Another option is that the Q area is temporarily reactivated post attack as a recovery and staging area for orphan munitions dispersed from bases which were struck. Once transported to Hood they will be expeditiously moved by air to follow on storage areas. That can set up an emergency evac or emergency disablement situation when the Mexican army comes north.