SF-87 | Going to and from sick call in the back of or 5/4 or 2 ton tactical truck. M21-1, Part IV, Subpart ii, Chapter 2, Section C - Service Connection (SC) for Disabilities Resulting From Exposure to Environmental Hazards or Service in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) This section contains the following topics: Topic Topic Name. Reunions; Current Events; Cold War. Thule | However, as it protected a much greater area, not as many sites were needed to provide coverage of potential targets. Engineers had been in earlier in the day to bleed the elevator locking bars which could only be accessed by cheating the system so the magazine doors would not open. LaunchSet | It seeks to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure whenever possible and to minimize doses when exposure is unavoidable. stomp up the steps of the tower The nuclear-tipped . There are certain diseases that may be service-connected if the disease occurred as a result of the radiation exposure. Niagara-Buffalo | Rf radiation heats the body tissues. LaunchSet | I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. Going to ag shack and meeting mister brown bear on the way or going to pick up mail from main post and getting run over by a moose in rut. [2]:287[22] Conventionally armed Nike Hercules missiles also served in the United States, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Taiwan. Ajax's boosters were housed in steel tubes that fell near the base, presenting a serious range safety concern. They finished their work and left. From: Robin Smith Bell also proposed a much more modified design known as "Nike Hercules" with an enlarged upper fuselage able to carry the XW-7 warhead of up to 40kt (170TJ)[9]:57 that wouldn't fit in the existing fuselage. [4], During World War II, the US Army Air Force (USAAF) concluded that existing anti-aircraft guns, only marginally effective against existing generations of propeller-driven aircraft, would not be effective at all against the emerging jet-powered designs. Someone did the impossible by installing the Nike's gyro backward (that was the official explanation) which caused the missile to go more south as the computer told it to go more north. [12], During this period, some effort was put into a frangible booster for the Ajax. AttackonUSSR? BOMARC proved extremely expensive, difficult to maintain in operation readiness, had questionable performance, and was displaying a continued inability to reach operational status. Although it was officially one of the Operation Fishbowl tests, it is . 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. From: Emmett R. Caraker Jr. "[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". However, both Ajax and Hercules systems in Europe had to be able to move as US forces shifted. 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. PreservingSF-88L | On both the IFC and the LA maintenance people were available. [17] This was answered most forcibly not by the Army, but the Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, who wrote in Newsweek that "one hard solid fact remerges above them all: no matter what the Nike is or isn't, it's the only land-based operational anti-aircraft missile that the U.S. Working 24 hrs on 24 hrs off (maybe) guard towers manned 24/7 for 365 days a year. 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. BaseTuono | Painting Missiles in a non-ventilate area. I was a trainer for HqBn. Live in tents while they rebuilding adm/barrack. 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). Starting in April 1960, considerable effort was put into a fully mobile "Cross-Country Hercules" launcher based on the M520 Goer vehicle, an articulated prime mover that saw considerable service during the Vietnam War. Hercules remained a major front-line weapon in Europe into the 1980s. In the case of Hercules, all of the radars were typically mounted on (concrete) elevated platforms to improve their line-of-sight. the Improved Nike-Hercules radar antennas. Sent: April 29, 2018 Its warhead also allowed it to be used in a secondary surface-to-surface role, and the system also demonstrated its ability to hit other short-range missiles in flight. TestEquipment | the narrow pulse mode, from the low power acquisition radar when rotating, from The NVA knew we were coming. Military Veteran Health. Our team finished the second day with a perfect score, but the rest of our battery was just getting started. Hercules was originally developed as a simple upgrade to the earlier MIM-3 Nike Ajax, allowing it to carry a nuclear warhead in order to defeat entire formations of high-altitude supersonic targets. TTR and TRR operator console. Hercules would prove to be the last operational missile from Bell's Nike team; Zeus was never deployed, and Hercules' replacements were developed by different teams. Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be C-4-44 | may be used as a guide to prevent radio-frequency radiation hazards. 801 and above-Non-scanning This complexity added enormously to the cost and time required to maintain the missiles. Later banned as a carcinogen. [2]:45, Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. General Electric demonstrated a prototype on 11 February 1964. [36] The firing or launch command was given manually by the Battery Control Officer based on orders or Rules of Engagements. BudHalsey | When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. It was a very angry civilian screaming that we were melting the front end of his receiver: puddles of brass waveguide! Trophy | Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:14:23 PM TerryFetterman | Site Bay (C Battery), across Cook Inlet from the others, has been mostly demolished, with only burned out shells of the batteries remaining, as well as a few storage bunkers. Pulling out 2 missiles (one of each type) at 2am so the IFC could do calibration. LaunchEquipment | The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. Paint a Hercules trainer missile put it on a ready round trailer. In 1959 both the House and Senate debated the systems, with the Senate recommending cutting funding for Hercules and the House stating the opposite. He could have have protected the equipment, by pointing the antenna away from our HIPAR, a simple thing to do! The Nike Hercules began replacing the Nike Ajax in 1958. [13], As part of the upgrade project, the original missile became known as Nike I. [1]:52[verification needed][39] The last versions carried the W31 Mod 2 warhead, with yields of 2 or 20 kt. Battery B, 5th Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery: From: Jim Martensen Nike Vet Glen Talon N.H. HA-08 HA-25 | From: Thomas Moorer Nike Site filled with constant alerts, training, inspections, Radar Bomb Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 He would eat supper and when he came back you better be off the road. This prompted ARAACOM commander Charles E. Hart to petition the Secretary of Defense to order the Air Force to stop the well organized campaign against Hercules. His Thompson went off. I heard he also relieved himself of all that was in his lower intestine. After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. There were nuclear missile batteries around every major us city. The project had moved several times, and was now in late development as the BOMARC. Murray Hill is where all the AT&T antenna experiments took place. Watching 2 MIG's fly over the Exclusion Area and buzz the tower, while tailed by 2 Tornado's (Italy). He opened up the escape hatch door to ventilate the panel room and made us get out of the launching area for the rest of the day. Cold The original Ajax detection radar retroactively became known as LOPAR, and remained in use as the main target selection radar in the missile control van. HM-95 | The Hercules missile systems sold to Japan (Nike J) were subsequently fitted with upgraded internal guidance systems, the original vacuum tube systems being replaced with transistorized ones. Solid fuel rockets can remain stored for years and are generally very difficult to ignite without an extended period of applied flame. fragments moving same war head This was a common complaint by the Air Force, who noted that bombers had the ability to attack from as much as 50 miles (80km) while the Nike was only comfortable launching at about 25 miles (40km). ranging radar is inconsequential under operating conditions. List, by MOS, of likely extent of exposure to asbestos. During an alert, the site would go on "blue alert", at which time the LA crew would arm and erect the missiles and then retreat to safety. To provide the same range of view, the tracking radars were also often placed on concrete platforms of their own, although these were much smaller. Medic put a person in the tactical amb backwords so their head is near the tailpipe. Subject: Melting Waveguide A variety of problems, including one found in the W-7 warhead, caused delays in the testing programs, so a single launch of the T45-equipped Hercules was also added to the AMMO project. Mobilization 1962: Driver decides to back his missile trailer loaded with a live Hercules- backs off the road down an embankment. Video | itself after a power surge or drop. Redstone Arsenal then presented the T48E3 which was somewhat larger and longer to reach reasonable performance, but only at the cost of having to modify all of the Ajax launcher rails. Launched against such a formation, the Nike would fly towards the center of the composite return. The first HIPAR was tested at White Sands between 14 April 1960 and 13 April 1961, starting with two Ajax launches that passed 14 yards and 18 yards from the drone targets, and a further 17 Hercules launches that were generally successful. The radar can continue to locate the target in elevation or azimuth because all of the signals come from the same location, but the receiver cannot easily determine which pulse was sent by the radar and which was sent by the electronic countermeasures (ECM) on the target aircraft, which is needed to measure the time-of-flight. The civilian said he must have been in the antenna, that was why the phone was not answered. The LA consisted to a maximum of four launching sections, each section consisted of an underground storage area, an elevator to move missiles to and from the surface launchers, and four aboveground firing locations. Unzipping the door on the TTR radome only VA recognizes that the following diseases are possibly caused by exposure to ionizing radiation during service: All cancers. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Otherwise the LOPAR was used. whom was escorting with me at Generators | T he Nike-Hercules was first publicly displayed on May 18, 1957. The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. In addition, the policy prescribes planning, coordination, security, dosimetry, recordkeeping, training, equipment, and expertise to deal with radiological hazards. although not considered potentially hazardous, is stipulated by AR 40-583 as the Maintenance | Hercules remained the US's primary heavy SAM until it began to be replaced by the higher performance and considerably more mobile MIM-104 Patriot in the 1980s. Dismantling of the sites in Florida Alpha Battery in Everglades National Park, Bravo Battery in Key Largo, Charlie Battery in Carol City and Delta Battery, located on Krome Avenue on the outskirts of Miami started in June 1979 and was completed by early autumn of that year. B3/71 (Turks welding covers), Or a project, after they rebuilt their antennas front end receiver! Nike was initially deployed at military bases starting in 1953, especially Strategic Air Command bomber airfields, and general deployment then followed at US cities, important industrial sites, and then overseas bases. Interceptions with the Hercules system would typically start with targets being detected and identified on the HIPAR system, if this was in use. open pit. Date: August 4, 2019. How about 3 brand new 5/4s in one weekend! Gilbert Burke | The U.S. Army continued to use Hercules as a front-line air defense weapon in Europe until 1983, when Patriot missile batteries were deployed. NY53 | [9]:61, All of this was part of a larger fight going on over the Army's Jupiter missile, which the Air Force stated should be their mission. Each Nike battery consisted of two or three areas; IFC, LA and general. HerculesMissile | LA-43 | C-4-44 | 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. Date: April 23, 2016. The soldier that fired it did a double take when he realized what the missile was after, threw the launch tube and ran. The Army then began its own series of press releases under what they called "Project Truth". to RF radiations of hazardous intensity levels. Alaska | Reunions | The LA also had a control van to control and monitor the LA activities and maintenance facilities. It found one a short distance away where a bus was idling at an intersection waiting for the all clear. Servicemembers in these occupations receive special training and are monitored to ensure radiation exposure remains at safe levels. Each wing ended with a control flap which was separated from the wing by a short distance, leaving a gap. Two of the weapons were damaged when they hit the ground and released plutonium, a radioactive material. The WX-9, like all gun-type designs, was long and thin, originally designed to be fired from an 11in (280mm) artillery piece, and easily fit within the Nike fuselage. Then haul it to K-town so the Gen had it for display. Nor did it stop the fighting in the press. [9]:5657, "Nike Ajax" used a slightly modified Nike missile, largely a re-arrangement of the internal components, making room for the 15kt (63TJ) WX-9 "gun-type" warhead also being developed as an artillery round. fields. Three key elements were identified; the need to attack formations without nuclear warheads, operations against low-altitude targets, and better traffic-handling capabilities to handle larger raids. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. Italy | electricity, Caked ice on radar tower ladders and TacticalControl | During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. The Starfish Prime radiation belt persisted at high altitude for many months and damaged the United States satellites Traac, Transit 4B, Injun I and Telstar I, . Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 Unfortunately the engineers had failed to remove the cheater cable which prevented the doors from opening. 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. Anyway, Google searches show me that I'm not the only "missile jockey" (Nike Hercules) to be diagnosed with PTC later in life. Service personnel records show that the veteran spent most of his active duty service at the nike missile battery in milwaukee. Any single battery could only launch a single missile at a time, due to the limited number of radars, computers and operators. tower guards have not been told This system was successfully tested at White Sands on 1 October 1961. The Nike Hercules was a command-guided, long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft missile. Oozlefinch | 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. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. Ordnance | As a PFC instructor for the Missile and Launcher school at Fort Bliss: Having someone raising the launcher without taking the "boots" off the cylinders Watch out below! Army Colonel John C. Nickerson Jr. publicly denounced Wilson, while leaking details of their latest missile design, the Pershing missile. Primary among these was that the Ajax fuels were hypergolic, igniting on contact. has. Working with nuclear weapons, high explosives, errant electric The large airstrip remains, and is often used by locals for flight instruction and practice. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. polishing, but there were inherent dangers, and I'll start the list. Nuclear Missiles in Miami; ALASKA'S COLD WAR . Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. HA-08 HA-25 | [38], Hercules could carry either a nuclear warhead or a conventional high-explosive warhead (T-45 fragmentation type). However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. Official requirements were published in 1945; Bell Laboratories won the Ordnance contract for a short-range line-of-sight weapon under Project Nike,[5] while a team of players led by Boeing won the contract for a long-range design known as Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft, or GAPA. Bell began working on the new design in concert with the Nike partners, Western Electric and Douglas Aircraft Company. Thanks guys. 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He turned out okay! NY56 | A total of 145 missile Most of these were converted Nike Ajax units. Both forces, and their congressional supporters, realized that splitting the budget would mean neither force would be funded to the level required to fulfill the defence mission. At this time the target information and the intercept point were displayed on the plotting boards and the BCO selected the right time to manually fire. All CONUS Hercules batteries, with the exception of the ones in Florida and Alaska, were deactivated by April 1974. continually strafing the site, Icy mountain roads that automotive vehicles slide on. but the orders were canceled because of a security leak. We had been working on the cable cleaning for quite some time when he came by to check on us. Generators | Similar experiments for Hercules boosters led to the XM-61 single-chamber booster, but when the XM-42 cluster proved to be even less expensive than expected, this effort was also dropped. This information was displayed on plotting boards.[36]. to find the rookie down in the van has the antenna pointed at you and it's on. TestEquipment | RF radiation is not cumulative, but it could be hazardous. It often had rack sections attached to it also. I mean really fired it up, small spark followed immediately by a medium explosion! The system, with modifications, lasted from 1954 to 1980. The IFC contained the search and tracking radars and control center (operators, computer, etc. Back 1 1/2 hrs turn in vehicle get off for payday. RF radiation heats The Best Nike Hercules Missile Radiation Exposure 2022. I was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! For years later my wife thought it was cute that I glowed at night. Still at Redstone: Having a generator mechanic switch out generators and not have it in phase with the other generator running to the van. 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. Parathyroid adenoma. I proceeded with the test at 3 AM. 3/71 in Germany in 66, 67, 68 and loved every moment. [35] Early models cost about US$55,250 each,[35] while most recent cost estimate, from Japan, was US$3.0 million. while on field exercises in the Date: Thursday, 19 December 2013. MTR operator console. Sticking a test probe BatteryAirlift | 230 feet. The HIPAR was fired up and the rotation was locked with the antenna pointed at a certain point off the east coast. They saw this as an extension of the Army's existing "point defence" role, and as a valuable backup to their own manned interceptors. Italy | Instead of the basic W-7, development of an improved 20kt (84TJ) boosted fission design known as W31. Government mistakenly told them it was safe to return to their home island. One of these locations was directly above the elevator, the others were reached by manually pushing the missiles off the elevator to the launcher along rails. Happened to a PVC Zachary at C5-6th in Baumholder Fg around 1977-78. To ensure the MTR could see and track the missile during its initial rapid ascent as it launched, the IFC was normally located about 1 mile (1.6km) from the "Launching Area" (LA). Like almost any thorny military problem of the 1950s, the solution was the application of nuclear bombs. head wound from the fins (Crew 7923 carlton arms rd, apt b (1,726.23 mi) indianapolis, in, in 46256. Those black, yellow and red Korean hornets. The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. 111 rows from web site va.gov. You're in the army now; The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the defense department. Once the two are in the truck we head back to the unit only to be confronted by a mob of men that wanted our passengers. Efforts to mount the HIPAR on the same platform between March and December 1962 were not nearly as successful, and on 18 December 1962 the concept was abandoned in favor of an "airmobile" solution using conventional M52 trucks and modified trailers. Propellant samples and various other Nike-Hercules components were also exposed to atomic explosions and radiation during other Plumbbob shots. For these missions the computer used the MTR to guide the missile to a point above the target, then commanded it to dive vertically while measuring any changes in trajectory as it fell. Conversions were largely complete by 1960, leaving only a few Ajax sites in use. [9] It was normally deployed in fixed bases with a central radar and control site (Integrated Fire Control area or IFC) separated from the launcher area (LA). It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use. 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 The TRR was operated by the track supervisor. AADCPS | And you must have had contact with ionizing radiation in one of these ways while serving in the military: You served in the postwar occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or. Over its lifetime, significant effort was put into the development of solid state replacements for the vacuum tube-based electronics inherited from the early-1950s Ajax, and a variety of mobile options. Vets at Homestead AFB had to treat them- a tricky procedure for both the vet and the dog handler. Cold War Missiles in Miami | Home | Scoring, and other routine soldier duties like guard duty, K.P., painting and Thrown back Developed by Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque and at Los Alamos, it was given 1A priority by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1953. AttackonUSSR? Missile Specificaitons The Hercules missile could travel 87 miles down range and 150,000 feet in altitude. resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel workingin about being thrown from a moving Germany police tell you have to go back on 2 lane roads. The best I remember they were kind of amber in color and a little translucent. 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