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";s:4:"text";s:33020:"Subject: More dumb stuff, From: R. Alderson / SP5 Air starting four 75mm "M" motors . Conversions were largely complete by 1960, leaving only a few Ajax sites in use. turning over, with injuries to Initially the nuclear-armed version carried the W-7 Mod 2E nuclear warhead, with yields of 2.5 or 28 kt. HM-69 | Vets at Homestead AFB had to treat them- a tricky procedure for both the vet and the dog handler. MemoryLane | Falling down the ladder leading to the MTR operator console. [37] These smaller wings also housed the antennae of the transponder. This Nike Hercules Missile Site is dedicated to all soldiers, family members and friends that served in Delta 2-1- ADA -32nd AADCOM, Dichtelbach, Germany. being the MP whom was moving the It evolved into a much larger missile with two solid fuel stages that provided three times the range of the Ajax. LaunchSet | Subject: Inherent Dangers of Nike work, From: Michael Williquette When the missile neared the intercept point a command signal was sent to the missile to explode.[36]. The nuclear-tipped . Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Similar articles began appearing in papers around the country, invariably just before that city was to begin receiving their missiles. The battery crew was housed on-site, either at the IFC, or sometimes, together with administrative offices and general services on a separate area. My instructions said nothing about stopping the test, so I finished the tests, Cold War is Cold War! The Nike Hercules missile launcher was called the M-36E1 monorail launcher. TTR and TRR operator console. I was diagnosed in October 2014. U.S.targets | In 1946, the USAAF also started two early research projects into anti-missile systems in Project Thumper (MX-795) and Project Wizard (MX-794). In part because of less parts supportability, Western European (Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force (4 ATAF) and Second Allied Tactical Air Force (2 ATAF) sites essentially became fixed sites and were no longer considered capable of a mobile role. Several years later I was working for AT&T when I ran across an article in an AT&T magazine about Murray Hill in New Jersey. RedCanyonRange | [1]:52[verification needed][39] The last versions carried the W31 Mod 2 warhead, with yields of 2 or 20 kt. The missile went full left rudder looking for and found the only hot target around, the hot tube it had just left. Definitions | Hercules was officially referred to as transportable, but moving a battery was a significant operation and required considerable construction at the firing sites. Non-malignant thyroid nodular disease. Unless the transmitter has encoded some additional form of information in the signal, the receiver cannot determine which pulse it sent out and which is from the jammer. LaunchSet | Date: April 23, 2016. The IFC contained the search and tracking radars and control center (operators, computer, etc. You may be entitled to disability compensation if these military exposures resulted in a disease or injury. Huge fireball that almost reached the launcher. Hercules also offered the ability to attack pre-located ground targets, after feeding in the coordinates in an operation that took about five minutes. To address this whole range of issues, Bell proposed a series of changes:[26]. [2]:287[22] Conventionally armed Nike Hercules missiles also served in the United States, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Taiwan. has. Army-Hercules Nuclear Missile workers were required to wear ionizing radiation badges - VA case CONTACT LIST FOR RADIATION EXPOSURE RECORDS DD FORM 1141 - IONIZING RADIATION EXPOSURE. Humor | made it work :), Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine - NIKE Ajax starter fluid, Armed military aircraft (nuclear?) In the HIPAR building when and during a It often had rack sections attached to it also. Any bored idiots with single digit IQs Once a month at 3 AM on the first Sunday the top five channels were tested for one minute each, timed with a stop watch. Nice run in full gear. someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment Needless to say the engineering section chief and his assistant got read the riot act. truck breaking bone's (compound DISTANCE, AJI High Power Lost one person when a rough terrain scoop loader roll over on him. [36] On the IFC the status of the selected missile was given. A short period after launch the actual location, i.e. Of the two, the warhead seemed like the simplest problem to address. After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. We went to SNAP. We are in search of all veterans that served here, Originally D-5-1-ADA. Supply Person (76Y) shot is finger in the arms room with a M1911A1 (cal.45). LaunchEquipment | [9]:6162, Eventually, in November the new Secretary of Defense, Neil H. McElroy announced both systems would be purchased. and 16Bs to 5th Gen The Hawk went skipping along the sand dunes in heat seeking mode looking for something hot. A similar test on 29 July launched two missiles against three F-80 Shooting Star drones flying in formation, the first missile destroyed the lead aircraft while the second passed within lethal range of a second. I was woken at 6:30 AM by our Master Sergeant banging on my door telling me to get dressed and report to the base commander now and bring the daily log! HM-95 | SF-51 | Eating ham 3 times a day for 45 days because the Gen did not like ham. We then drove around out on the desert jumping over sand dunes with the jeeps. There was an American with him in the barn at the time but didnt see him lock and load a round. Although it was officially one of the Operation Fishbowl tests, it is . Radar | The civilian said he must have been in the antenna, that was why the phone was not answered. Hercules | AirDefense | Our section chief gave another Pvt. Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be Propellant samples and various other Nike-Hercules components were also exposed to atomic explosions and radiation during other Plumbbob shots. 1969: Attack on USSR? hospital (those deemed sickest 7923 carlton arms rd, apt b (1,726.23 mi) indianapolis, in, in 46256. The DoD invested considerably in upgrading the security of the storage areas of the launcher sections, ultimately installing significant towers that were capable of watching over all three sections within the "exclusion area". Sent: April 29, 2018 Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. We had been working on the cable cleaning for quite some time when he came by to check on us. Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012, From: "Robert Kirk" Here are some dangers I encountered, some are just plain stupidity. 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PRP | Other diseases associated with radiation exposure. From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. the Improved Nike-Hercules radar antennas. Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. About | 127 feet, Missile Tracking Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 You did tasks like those of a Department of Energy (DOE) employee that make them a member of the Special Exposure Cohort (See 42 U.S.C. Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:39:30 PM [2]:45, Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. Rf radiation heats the body tissues. Thule's air defense was reduced during 1965, and SAC air base defense during 1966, reducing the number of batteries to 112. I also showed him where in the log I made two calls when only one was required. IrwinAnger | with gas masks and running through Various military occupations include routine and usually safe exposure to radiation. Due to the nature of these fuels, extreme caution had to be used whenever the missiles were moved or unloaded for maintenance. Like the Germans and British before them, they concluded the only successful defence would be to use guided weapons.[5]. LA-43 | This complexity added enormously to the cost and time required to maintain the missiles. It was a very angry civilian screaming that we were melting the front end of his receiver: puddles of brass waveguide! HIPAR would detect targets separately and "hand off" to the LOPAR and TTR so those systems could remain largely unchanged and able to launch either Hercules or Ajax. Otherwise the LOPAR was used. 4 hrs in the tower and 4 hrs out of the tower. Date: Fri, 15 May 2015, From: Don Mullis [9]:62, Meanwhile, the Air Force scrambled to bring BOMARC to operational status, and on 1 September 1959 declared the 46th Air Defense Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base operational. Chief), Being a nube and forgetting to The upper stage alone was 24feet 11inches (7.59m) long. [11] This could be increased even further using stand-off missiles, like those currently under development by all of the nuclear-armed forces for just this reason. Eating C rations dated 1958 ( it was 1973) and 1948 (it was 1974). Live in tents while they rebuilding adm/barrack. [12], During this period, some effort was put into a frangible booster for the Ajax. Thanks guys. Having to disarm the warhead The other pit rat and myself rolled a round on the launcher and I performed the stray voltage check. while on field exercises in the Working with nuclear weapons, high explosives, errant electric SC for Disabilities Resulting From Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. Reunions; Current Events; Cold War. Nike-Hercules system's reliance on ground-based radar to track tar-gets and to guide missiles to an interception, this was an important finding. [26] Engineering was complete in 1958 and entered low-rate production in May 1959. Ordnance | Among the various test targets were a Mach 3 Lockheed AQM-60, a drone, and a Corporal missile. HerculesMissile | LOPAR was relatively small, and the TTR/MTR were always trailer based, so these systems were also fairly mobile. This led to the use of semi-trailer systems for the fire control systems, which could be easily moved and re-positioned as required. "[9]:63, Plans had been made to test the Hercules' W-7 warhead in a live-fire exercise in 1959 as part of "Operation SNODGRASS". There were nuclear missile batteries around every major us city. Alligator poachers spotlighting our sentry dogs at A252 in the Everglades, Cottonmouth and rattlesnakes between the security fences, Rats scrounging for dog food in the kennel shacks, Snakes crawling on window awnings at night, feeding on the insects that were drawn to the lights, Alligators running across the road at nightin front of motorcycles. From: Barry Hayes Nike Humor; 2nd Missile Bn 52nd ADA (Florida) ARADCOM Trophy; Regimental Crests; The Oozlefinch; Stories. As Chief Site Missile Equipment Engineer, getting a 2 AM phone call at my off base home because a visiting Colonel decided to do an unscheduled snap launch drill during a rain and later lightening storm and got a missile stuck in the raised position on the top of the elevated launch area. General Electric demonstrated a prototype on 11 February 1964. [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. Missile Tracking Radar-Nike-Ajax Mode 126 feet Target Tracking Radar-Wide Pulse Mode 230 feet Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be positioned so as to radiate into areas occupied by passive antennas. Still at Redstone Nike radar range: We broke the locking mechanism on one of the trailers; you know the magnesium trailers, called post maintenance to fix it Finding out the bar where you ate last night was put off limits because they were serving questionable meat, The sign for the 44th Ord Co (GM/GS) getting repainted with a peace sign, Moving the pack howitzer from in front of the brigade hq to the 44th parking lot, Getting one of your classmates to tell the instructor he wanted to be an inflight repairman, The same guy getting zapped on a philco t rack seven days running, During snow storms going off post to a road intersection to watch the rednecks trying to stop for a red light when they are doing about fifty and there is No damage. Links | F16 buzz the IFC so the IFC made the F16 light come on (lock on the F16). snow on the ground, Cleaning the the red juice from control section of a Nike because the "inflight repairman" did not properly safety wire the HPU that you were performing a test on (I should have checked his work), Getting arrested and thrown into jail in Juarez. They saw this as an extension of the Army's existing "point defence" role, and as a valuable backup to their own manned interceptors. The Army then began its own series of press releases under what they called "Project Truth". The buildings that once housed Delta Battery became the original structures used for the Krome Avenue Detention Facility, a federal facility used primarily to hold illegal aliens awaiting immigration hearings. About 5 minutes in a confined space with that stuff had you seeing pretty green stars. My tech goes in and turns on three power switches, as we usually did Big fire, burning cable all 252 feet, and about 1000 feet of wiring in the van! The last active Nike Ajax batteries were relieved of their mission in December 1961, followed by the last Army National Guard unit in May 1964. Developed by Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque and at Los Alamos, it was given 1A priority by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1953. From: Thomas Moorer He would eat supper and when he came back you better be off the road. Dogs | From web site VA.gov. The House eventually came to support the Defense Secretary's position as stated in the Master Air Defense Plan, retaining Hercules while reducing BOMARC and SAGE. We were short mechanics so we were working 24 hours on and 24 off. Date: Thursday, 19 December 2013. The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. 7384L (14)) Handling | To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). Italy | MPs an 16Bs (most sites), Down The boosters were equipped with four large swept-wing fins at the extreme rear, behind the rocket exhaust, using a diamond cross-section suitable for supersonic lift. A total of 145 missile Most of these were converted Nike Ajax units. rapidly diminishes as the distance is increased. Had to hike down to them and bring their gear and then march them back to IFC whining all the way about how cold it was (-80 white out). Second lt. were probably the most dangerous, trying to convince everyone they knew it all but they were just getting started. resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel workingin Needless to say I quickly killed the transmitter. Back at Redstone School: Having my tech override rotation on the acquisition radar and use it to kill birds in the trees. Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:29 PM Health | LauncherArea | In order to simplify the upgrades at Ajax sites, HIPAR did not replace the earlier ACQ radar from Ajax, which was retained and now known as LOPAR. However, the lower specific impulse of these engines, combined with the requirement for longer range, demanded a much larger fuselage to store the required fuel. ammo trailer that lost three range water so polluted sends MPs This had been done for many tests in the past in the last two years. Pittsburgh | Niagara-Buffalo | In one of the many Mig sorties that came south of the DMZ the sites went up a step in DEFCON and then back down. I just returned from the seattle va hospital and i am now on the va health registry for occupational exposure of a us veteran during military service with the hawk ada missile system. While stationed at D/2/52 on Krome Avenue in spring 1972 we went to the RFTS to perform dailies and found that due to heavy rain the previous evening, there were approximately 100 snakes of several different types coiled up on the concrete pad at the base of the mast. Avoiding the alligators on Key West when C-50 | Hercules, still known officially as Nike B at this point,[N 2] grew to become a much larger design. Length 45 feet, Diameter 32 inches : Two Stage : Four 8" diameter 105,000 Newton-Second "Q" motors in the booster : Staging to one 12" diameter 400,000 Newton-Second "S" motor in the sustainer. How Carl Durling C-2-52 1961-62: This used much less fissile material and was thus considerably less expensive. and doing it up wind (Black BR-04 | A nuclear weapons mishap occurred on January 17, 1966, over Palomares, Spain, when a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber and KC-135 tanker aircraft collided. and me the job of cleaning the cables in the Panel Room in B Section. However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. Subject: Melting Waveguide Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013. Government mistakenly told them it was safe to return to their home island. The base commander told me he had a call from an angry civilian saying that I had destroyed his equipment last night and he was billing the Army for $40,000 (this was in 1965!) 2 people pulling/pushing by hand a 10,710 pound missile to a launcher. EOD failed to come out to see, but sent instructions on what to do. I am so proud to have been a part it all. Dogs | Plato was cancelled in February 1959, replaced in the short term by further upgrades to Hercules, and in the longer term by the FABMDS program. When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. As Hercules had evolved from the fixed-base Ajax system, early deployments offered no mobility. 111 rows from web site va.gov. Safety officer blew it before it crossed into Mexico. A new missile could be launched about 11 seconds after detonation or rejecting the previous missile. [18][19] The resulting flap led to calls for Nickerson to be court-martialed and was compared to the Billy Mitchell court-martial in the 1920s. Panel Room, before they installed stairs. [35] Three versions were produced, MIM-14A, B and C. The differences between these versions are not known. The Captain told the civilian that he had been notified by the Army two years ago that these tests would take place and when. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Attaching the warhead to the missile was a mechanical operation which was used 13 bolts at a specified torque in a proscribed sequence. Veterans Administration and Agent Orange information. The AN/MPQ-43 Mobile HIPAR was made part of Hercules Standard A in August 1966 and began operational deployment in Europe on 12 April 1967.[33]. The guys in the bunker thought they were toast (literally). It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. The problem was the missile launcher itself, and especially the large HIPAR radar, which presented a formidable mobility problem. to find the rookie down in the van has the antenna pointed at you and it's on. I was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! SF-51 | Servicemembers in these occupations receive special training and are monitored to ensure radiation exposure remains at safe levels. During the last years of their deployment in Europe, the issue at hand was more about maintaining security of the nuclear capable missiles, rather than mobility. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. It was only winter time. Painting Missiles in a non-ventilate area. To increase range, the missile was normally boosted above the target into the thinner air and then descended on it in a gliding dive. Links | The best I remember they were kind of amber in color and a little translucent. In spite of the greatly increased explosive power, the WX-7 was only slightly heavier than the WX-9, about 950lb (430kg) for common XW-7 versions, as opposed to 850lb (390kg) for the XW-9.[10]. It is relatively easy to jam range information on monopulse radars like the TTR by sending out false return signals. 2nd of the 52nd | Spec.-5 Emmett R. Caraker Jr. Cold War Missiles in Miami | This was my first time doing this test. [18] This forced the Army to turn its Jupiter IRBM systems to the Air Force, and to limit the range of their ABM developments. Thanks to the good folks at the Redstone airfield, while they weren't looking, it only took 3 weeks before we had an operating radar. Security | TacticalControl | least). Reunions | I was a trainer for HqBn. 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