[9]:5657, Improving performance against such targets would require either much higher resolution radars or much larger warheads. About 5 minutes in a confined space with that stuff had you seeing pretty green stars. Transmitting antennas in the non-scanning mode should not be [9]:57, The competing implosion-type design is considerably more efficient and uses much less fuel to reach any given explosive power. 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. You may be entitled to disability compensation if these military exposures resulted in a disease or injury. Needless to say the engineering section chief and his assistant got read the riot act. 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. When the command came to raise elevator everything started moving, the elevator started upward, the erector beam was rising and the magazine doors did not open. Meanwhile, the TTR can continue offering location information, and in the case that is also jammed (difficult but possible), was upgraded to offer a home-on-jam mode that used the ECM system's own broadcasts as a location source. At MA+4 the missile self destructed when it failed to detect the MTR. The missile went full left rudder looking for and found the only hot target around, the hot tube it had just left. I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. VA recognizes that the following diseases are possibly caused by exposure to ionizing radiation during service: All cancers. Overview | Given the low resolution of the tracking radars available at the time, a formation of aircraft would appear on the radars as a single larger return. Italy | Personnel should not be permitted to enter areas where they may be Keywords CONT INENTAL Defense Department National Security Council Nuclear Warhead Enemy Attack MOS 16b20 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. The effect of BudHalsey | garage into the Mass Hall when they rebuild adm/barrecks. Chair As soon at the TTR was locked on to a target, an analog computer (later digital) continually computed a suitable intercept point in the sky and an expected 'time to fly' of the missile based on information from the TTR and basic performance information about the missile. 126 feet, Target Tracking LaunchSet | This complexity added enormously to the cost and time required to maintain the missiles. 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. Everglades National Park. The remaining units were deactivated during the spring of 1979. into a missile tracking magnetron, (just turned on - not up). I had one thing to do I drove through them, they all got clear. Subject: Nike Site Dangers (UNCLASSIFIED) The problem was the missile launcher itself, and especially the large HIPAR radar, which presented a formidable mobility problem. down range (two MPs injured), Last His Thompson went off. The project had moved several times, and was now in late development as the BOMARC. The addition of the TRR solved a problem with early pulse radar units. Greece | [9]:63, In the aftermath of the Hercules/BOMARC debates, retired Army Brigadier General Thomas R. Phillips wrote an article for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that BOMARC and SAGE had been the "most costly waste of funds in the history of the Defense Department. [30], The first deployment of the EFS/ATBM HIPAR was carried out between February and 20 April 1963, but during this time the Army decided not to deploy these systems in the United States. 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. ranging radar is inconsequential under operating conditions. Subject: Nike Site Dangers, Sandbagging hose from Joy Compressor to launcher and having hose fitting fail. @MacGregor We, the 333rd, were briefly on orders to go to Vietnam as an ABM unit (like HUNH??!) Tom Cluff | When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough [31][32] In spite of this success, the GOER-based Hercules would not be used operationally. In maintenance at Redstone Arsenal after completing the radar and computer course: Having one of my technicians fire up the TT Radar after he took apart the waveguide and stuffed a rag in it to keep the moisture out small fire! Subject: Melting Waveguide MemoryLane | The other pit rat and myself rolled a round on the launcher and I performed the stray voltage check. 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). Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:38:38 PM This information was displayed on plotting boards.[36]. Generators | Of course this was an incident that never officially happened. 111 rows from web site va.gov. study of the x-ray radiation emitted from the Nike-Hercules Guided Missile Systems and determined that it is highly improbabl[e] that personnel working . GAPA moved to the US Air Force when that branch was formed in 1947. 7923 carlton arms rd, apt b (1,726.23 mi) indianapolis, in, in 46256. The Army then began its own series of press releases under what they called "Project Truth". The emerald that was melted was in one of the first RF laser amplifiers in the world! Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. Over the years, the vacuum-tube guidance system, as well as the complex fire control systems' radars, suffered from diminishing manufacturing source (DMS) issues. | Niagara-Buffalo | This, in turn, required a much larger booster to loft it, but this was solved by strapping together four of the existing Nike boosters to form a cluster known as the XM-42, with the only modification to the original M5 engine design being the addition of new holes to bolt them together, creating the M5E. Dogs | On both the IFC and the LA maintenance people were available. From: Thomas Moorer While I was in his office, the base commander telephoned the civilian. Engineers continued work on getting a second missile operational at McGuire, but the Air Force went ahead with plans to open the Suffolk County Missile Annex by 1 January 1960. It had great maneuverability and a speed of Mach 3.65 (2,707 miles per hour). We were later stopped by MP's and and I thought we were going to be arrested but they finally let us go. Members | fracture)? Carl Durling C-2-52 1961-62: truck breaking bone's (compound apparent. A 23 October 1954 report stated that "Concurrent with the prosecution of the NIKE I and NIKE B programs, studies and research and development must be conducted to insure that the NIKE equipment is modernized to the maximum extent within the limits of current technology and economics of improvement as compared to investment in a new system ". They split development between the Army Air Force or the Ordnance Department based on whether or not the design "depend[ed] for sustenance primarily on the lift of aerodynamic forces" or "primary on the momentum of the missile". PresentingSF-88L | History | Our section chief gave another Pvt. 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). [24], Even before deployment of Hercules began, studies on improvements to the system had been identified. Every thing inside but a 1 meter dish to transmit. Supply Person (76Y) shot is finger in the arms room with a M1911A1 (cal.45). No damage. Because of our location, the top five channels on the HIPAR radar could not be used unless the bad guys were overhead. Precautions should be taken to insure that personnel are not exposed The resulting system used six semi-trailers: four to carry HIPAR electronic gear, one to carry the antenna, and one to carry the generators. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. However, it makes the determination of range difficult or impossible. Prior to assuming hot status we had to run a drill. My name is Michael Williquette. [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. Also conducted were tests to evaluate ECM performance, two surface-to-surface tests, and two Hercules-on-Hercules attacks with the target Hercules flying in a semi-ballistic trajectory.[27]. Lost one person when a rough terrain scoop loader roll over on him. (everyone), Working down range at night and 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. Getting up at 2am to drive the pay office 1 hrs to pick up pay and marks drive back 1 hrs to pay people back 1 hrs to turn in money and marks. U.S.targets | Of these threats, Redstone was considered just within the Hercules' capabilities, able to defend against such a target over a relatively limited range. From: Robin Smith Panel Room, before they installed stairs. Having to disarm the warhead I was stationed In Blankenheim, Germany from April 1965-Jan 1967. Subject: Nike Herc Missile exploded. It was a very angry civilian screaming that we were melting the front end of his receiver: puddles of brass waveguide! Germany Oct 1962: Frostbite while manning the perimeter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Damage to body tissue is not immediately LCT op in Germany. BudHalsey | present along the axis of the transmitted beam at the following distances from None of these were adopted, in favor of much more mobile systems like the MIM-23 Hawk. I and the Medic have to make a run to a nearby town and rescue two young troops from a mob. The occasion was the national commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the defense department. 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. 33 feet, Systems 538-594 and although not considered potentially hazardous, is stipulated by AR 40-583 as the Hercules, still known officially as Nike B at this point,[N 2] grew to become a much larger design. Rf radiation heats the body tissues. It was only winter time. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. PreservingSF-88L | The Rocky Point missile base was operational from 1957 to 1974. Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012, From: "Robert Kirk" The Hawk went skipping along the sand dunes in heat seeking mode looking for something hot. Air Lifting a Nike Site; Nike Site Dangers; You're in the Army Now; Life on the Hill; CIA & Nike Hercules; Film, Movies, Video; News. Chief), Being a nube and forgetting to BatteryAirlift | [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). tower guards have not been told In each instance, the intensity least). At Redstone Nike radar range: Just for fun, on a special project, a group of 3 Nike civilians and 2 military, John H. and myself, took components out of a TTR and the Control trailer and made a radar that would fit inside an M48 Tank. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. NY53 | The Nike Hercules missile launcher was called the M-36E1 monorail launcher. [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. The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. The crew on the LA, also under command of the BCO, was responsible for preparing and erecting the missile. RF radiation heats Cold War Missiles in Miami | open pit. 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. LA-88 | heat to damage the tissues permanently. Veterans Administration and Agent Orange information. HerculesMissile | I know.. it's not possible.right. against the dome door zippers - unconscious. exposed to levels above 10 milliwatts per square centimeter. Initially the nuclear-armed version carried the W-7 Mod 2E nuclear warhead, with yields of 2.5 or 28 kt. The best I remember they were kind of amber in color and a little translucent. Guestbook | Further deployments to allied units and US units in Alaska were carried out between November 1963 and the summer of 1965.[30]. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. and a couple of guys nicknamed "Shaky" and "Blinky". The last Hercules missiles were deactivated in Europe in 1988, without ever being fired in a military conflict. 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. [8], Even as the Nike was undergoing testing, planners grew concerned about the missile's ability to attack formations of aircraft. Cold War Missiles in Miami | Setting in a fox hole for 8 hrs during war games in the winter. [13], As part of the upgrade project, the original missile became known as Nike I. Pittsburgh | 60 feet, Low Power Acquisition During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. [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. CWVA stomp up the steps of the tower The LA also had a control van to control and monitor the LA activities and maintenance facilities. BR-04 | 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. Site Summit (B Battery) still sits above Eagle River, its IFC buildings and clamshell towers easily visible when driving towards Anchorage. Alaska | going out to the RF Test Set. I was a trainer for HqBn. Live in tents while they rebuilding adm/barrack. As the missiles were brought to readiness, a light board in the LA control van lit up with a series of amber lights for each launcher area, and green lights for each missile. To entertain ourselves we went to the motor pool and checked out some jeeps. 240 feet, Systems Even with an estimated 2000 Army, Marines, and ARVN to try to protect us our life expectancy was less than 90 minutes (probably closer to 90 seconds) after the wheels stopped rolling. The adaption kit, xm75e1, which adapted the w31 warhead to the nike missile, was unpackaged and bolted to the forward end of the warhead (now a part of the missile). fragments moving same war head 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. It was up to him to take whatever action was necessary to protect his equipment. TacticalControl | (with just a hint of sarcasm). The first missile in the series was Nike Ajax, a two-stage, liquid-fueled missile 21 feet (6.4 metres) long built by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Reunions; Current Events; Cold War. Thrown back Budgetary cuts reduced that number to 87 in 1968, and 82 in 1969. Spec.-5 Emmett R. Caraker Jr. 2nd of the 52nd | Another development for the anti-ballistic missile role later emerged as the much larger LIM-49 Nike Zeus design. Patriot's much higher accuracy allowed it to dispense with the nuclear warhead, and Hercules was the last US SAM to use this option. The guys in the bunker thought they were toast (literally). The battery crew was housed on-site, either at the IFC, or sometimes, together with administrative offices and general services on a separate area. He was safe but tube died. Can you say Asbestos time it was only 1974. [36], The entire sequence of events from decision to launch to actual launch normally took about 36 seconds. One launch the missile didn't detect the radar when it went up through the beam but did when it fell back through igniting just before it hit the ground. The active seeker system was later dropped to lower costs. BaseTuono | The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Service personnel records show that the veteran spent most of his active duty service at the nike missile battery in milwaukee. Martin produced the T48E1 and E2 designs for Ajax used a fiberglass casing that was destroyed by small explosives, but this proved overweight and did not boost the Ajax to the required speed. I reported as ordered. [9]:6162, Eventually, in November the new Secretary of Defense, Neil H. McElroy announced both systems would be purchased. Sometime later our site was called up as we were the backup battery. The Nike Hercules missiles were positioned underground in the silos. This included about 30 seconds to develop a track for a target; 4 seconds for computer to develop a firing solution, and 2 seconds between the initial fire order command and missile launch. of the best DAMN people whom Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. HA-08 HA-25 | Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:29 PM 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. A power level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter, Each Nike battery consisted of two or three areas; IFC, LA and general. may be used as a guide to prevent radio-frequency radiation hazards. A discussion about veterans health. In 1959 both the House and Senate debated the systems, with the Senate recommending cutting funding for Hercules and the House stating the opposite. As early as 1944 the US Army started exploring anti-aircraft missiles, examining a variety of concepts. I mean we were working 24 hours straight. Date: April 23, 2016. The NVA knew we were coming. 801 and above-Rotating 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. Sieverts or rem are used in reports on radiation disasters, because they give a better sense of how the radiation might affect human health. 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. Chicago was slated to shortly begin receiving its Hercules upgrades. Trophy | RF radiation is not cumulative, but it could be hazardous. TestEquipment | ANTENNA Hercules | LA-88 | 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]. Ionizing Radiation Veterans may have been exposed to ionizing radiation during military service if, for example, they participated in nuclear weapons testing. From: "Gerald Browning" but the orders were canceled because of a security leak. In February, Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White shocked everyone when he requested that BOMARC deployments be reduced to eight US and two Canadian sites, essentially killing the program. 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. At Shot Morgan on October 7, two sets of missile early 1970s and was completed by 1975, with the exception of batteries remaining in Alaska and Florida. It evolved into a much larger missile with two solid fuel stages that provided three times the range of the Ajax. Note that this has no effect on the determination of the direction to the target, which is the same for both the original and jammer pulses. Any bored idiots with single digit IQs Germany 1962: As Duty driver I get a call from the CQ. To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). We looked everywhere for the slug and SASCOM came in to search for it too. These changes were presented on 24 August 1956, and accepted by both CONARC and ARADCOM. a rattle snake in your tent 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. about being thrown from a moving A similar test on 17 July against a 300-knot (350mph; 560km/h) Q2A destroyed the target with the T45. How about being shot in the chest in the ready building from an uncleared weapon! Getting called to duty at 3AM to go and save two MPs who were on a site-seeing mission in a snow storm and their jeep got stuck. Just a couple of Nike Site Dangers that I remember that come to my mind: From: "Hank" 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. 1969: Attack on USSR? [29] FABMDS would have performance against any credible "theatre" ranged missile or rocket system, as well as offer anti-aircraft capabilities, the ability to attack four targets at once, and be relatively mobile. Army Colonel John C. Nickerson Jr. publicly denounced Wilson, while leaking details of their latest missile design, the Pershing missile. R. . Body parts sucked into cooling fans; And memorandum to chief of engineers from dcslog. R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide, New 2nd Lieutenants trying to get BCO A new missile could be launched about 11 seconds after detonation or rejecting the previous missile. 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. Hercules also offered the ability to attack pre-located ground targets, after feeding in the coordinates in an operation that took about five minutes. Given the Nike warhead's relatively small lethal radius, if the missile flew into the middle of the formation and exploded, it would be highly unlikely to destroy any of the aircraft. Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:39:30 PM 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. 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! Huge fireball that almost reached the launcher. The antenna was modified to give it the ability to see higher angles, while the Battery Control Console was upgraded with dual PPI displays for short- and long-range work, and the data link to the missile van was upgraded. LaunchSet | TestEquipment | Handling | They finished their work and left. Unzipping the door on the TTR radome only [N 3] The first SNODGRASS round was launched on 14 July with its warhead replaced by an instrument package and launched against a 350-knot (400mph; 650km/h) Q2A Ryan Firebee I drone. In one Redeye shoulder launch test there was a fault in the software that caused the missile to lock full left if it failed to acquire a hot target. With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the units were deactivated in 1988. Bell began working on the new design in concert with the Nike partners, Western Electric and Douglas Aircraft Company. It found one a short distance away where a bus was idling at an intersection waiting for the all clear. currents, arming magnetos, pissed off attack dogs, rifles and handguns, 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. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Hercules remained a major front-line weapon in Europe into the 1980s. I called again at 2:55 AM but still no answer. polishing, but there were inherent dangers, and I'll start the list. Health | Radar | while on field exercises in the Avoiding the alligators on Key West when A dual-launch followed on 24 July, with the first round destroying its target with the T45, and the second with the instrument package flying one second behind. 16-18. War Veterans Assc. 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. Home | rapidly diminishes as the distance is increased. It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. This happened to a 16B Development of the Nike Hercules took place in the early 1950s and deployment commenced in 1958. NY53 | Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013. After the call I was dismissed with a job well done. The TRR solves this problem by providing a separate ranging system on another frequency. [9]:57. Solid fuel rockets can remain stored for years and are generally very difficult to ignite without an extended period of applied flame. [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. This used much less fissile material and was thus considerably less expensive. How TTR and TRR operator console. The TRR system combatted this by allowing switching between two very different set of frequencies. Security | Back at Redstone School: Having my tech override rotation on the acquisition radar and use it to kill birds in the trees. C-50 | Nike Humor; 2nd Missile Bn 52nd ADA (Florida) ARADCOM Trophy; Regimental Crests; The Oozlefinch; Stories. Hercules batteries in the US were generally placed in older Ajax bases, using their underground storage and maintenance buildings. 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