platforms, In the danger zone of a radiating antenna, German citizens taking pot shots at the 240 feet, Systems [31][32] In spite of this success, the GOER-based Hercules would not be used operationally. How F16 buzz the IFC so the IFC made the F16 light come on (lock on the F16). Chair NATO units from West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Greece and Turkey continued to use the Hercules for high-altitude air defense until the late 1980s. [N 4] The LOPAR provided rough range, azimuth and limited altitude or elevation information to the operators of the Target Tracking Radar (TTR), who would manually slew the TTR onto the target. When the intensity is high, the radiation may produce enough heat to damage the tissues permanently. [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. The Rocky Point missile base was operational from 1957 to 1974. They finished their work and left. resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel workingin Niagara-Buffalo | Date: August 4, 2019. Access to the Mobile HIPAR antenna trailer and the roofs of ), and various related offices and communications centres for general operations. The first Nike Ajax missile site became operational at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 1954. 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. When the TTR and MTR radars were locked, the computer had a firing solution and the missile reported active, the LA lamp changed from amber to green, indicating the ability to fire. losing 10% of sight from metal Anyway, Google searches show me that I'm not the only "missile jockey" (Nike Hercules) to be diagnosed with PTC later in life. [N 1] A larger Nike with greatly improved range would not only help address this sort of attack, but also allow a single base to defend a much larger area, lowering the overall costs of deploying a widespread defensive 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. 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. 126 feet, Target Tracking 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. However, both Ajax and Hercules systems in Europe had to be able to move as US forces shifted. Here are some dangers I encountered, some are just plain stupidity. Dogs | Working with nuclear weapons, high explosives, errant electric Due to the nature of these fuels, extreme caution had to be used whenever the missiles were moved or unloaded for maintenance. We then drove around out on the desert jumping over sand dunes with the jeeps. Military Veteran Health. Two of the weapons were damaged when they hit the ground and released plutonium, a radioactive material. Deployment began in 1958, initially at new bases, but it eventually took over many Ajax bases as well. Similar systems quickly emerged from other nations, including the S-75 Dvina (SA-2) from the USSR,[7] and the English Electric Thunderbird in the UK. Trophy | Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Hercules was officially referred to as transportable, but moving a battery was a significant operation and required considerable construction at the firing sites. Government mistakenly told them it was safe to return to their home island. Home | Our warhead team had the rest of the week to kill. 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. The 333rd supposedly had the only two mobile ABM units stationed in the US. Every thing inside but a 1 meter dish to transmit. LA-29 | Lost one person when a rough terrain scoop loader roll over on him. Overview | 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. 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. while on field exercises in the [11], Things changed dramatically with the development of Hercules. It was followed by the Nike Zeus missile, which had a preliminary test firing Aug. 26, 1959, and could . Thrown back Our team finished the second day with a perfect score, but the rest of our battery was just getting started. LOPAR was relatively small, and the TTR/MTR were always trailer based, so these systems were also fairly mobile. 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. GAPA moved to the US Air Force when that branch was formed in 1947. Subject: Nike Site Dangers (UNCLASSIFIED) NY53 | Air starting four 75mm "M" motors . Subject: Nike Site Dangers, Sandbagging hose from Joy Compressor to launcher and having hose fitting fail. It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. against the dome door zippers - unconscious. Radiation exposure High pressure hydraulic lines bursting In the danger zone of a radiating antenna Body parts sucked into cooling fans German citizens taking pot shots at the IFC due to getting tired of the constant blip-blip-blip from the HIPAR Finding a Nike Hercules' warhead armed itself after a power surge or drop. Early deployments starting in 1958 were on new sites, but Ajax units started converting as well. 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. By 1959, Plato was still very much a paper project when news of large deployments of short-range missiles in the Warsaw Bloc became a clear threat. Germany 1962: As Duty driver I get a call from the CQ. SF-88 | 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. 16B goes nuts in a guard tower 30 feet high with an M16A1 and 180 rounds of ammo, with a gas mask. Good luck to any fishing boats at that point of the ocean. At 3:03 AM I received a call from our base switchboard. Conversions were largely complete by 1960, leaving only a few Ajax sites in use. Generators | 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. My instructions said nothing about stopping the test, so I finished the tests, Cold War is Cold War! Harold Stanford | Date: Thursday, 19 December 2013. Handling | Everglades National Park. One morning we ran the HIPAR antennas up into position and all the interlock lights lit so I lit up the transmitter and suddenly every neon lamp in the ACQ van starts flashing on and off which I quickly realized was in time with the antenna rotation. I've no family history of thyroid cancer that I know of. Needless to say I quickly killed the transmitter. HerculesMissile | IrwinAnger | open pit. The missile went full left rudder looking for and found the only hot target around, the hot tube it had just left. 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. someone (people) is down range, Rebuilding berms and equipment SF-51 | It evolved into a much larger missile with two solid fuel stages that provided three times the range of the Ajax. Unzipping the door on the TTR radome only Having to disarm the warhead apparent. The soldier that fired it did a double take when he realized what the missile was after, threw the launch tube and ran. 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". Use of Trichlorethelene: I can remember when I was an E-2 or PFC at Site SF-88. Crests | Although Hercules had demonstrated its ability to successfully engage short-range missiles, the capability was not considered very important. Security | From: "Gerald Browning" NIKE Hercules Missile 1/40 Plastic Model Kit (1 review) Write a Review SKU: H1804 Condition: New Availability: Usually Ship in 24hrs Shipping: Calculated at Checkout How long is the model when complete: The model measures 13.5 inches long What age is recommended: Ages 14 and up What paints do I need: Blown fuse in a nuclear warhead de-mating procedures, never saw the Italians run so fast. Battery B, 5th Battalion, 6th Air Defense Artillery: From: Jim Martensen It was only winter time. SF-51 | We were short mechanics so we were working 24 hours on and 24 off. Four Nike batteries were normally organized into a single battalion.[36]. 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. The missile would eventually pass out of line-of-sight with the MTR, so final arming information was provided during the dive, and the warhead was triggered by a barometric fuse. and could be spared), Finding warhead seal broken Each of these was a steel tube, and held together in this fashion they presented a considerable range safety issue when they fell back to the ground after launch. Pittsburgh | At its peak, it was deployed at over 130 bases in the US alone. TestEquipment | Generators | Testing was unexpectedly cancelled before the W-7 could be fired.[21]. CWVA 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 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. Part of the rush was due to the newly evolving understanding of the effects of nuclear weapons on radar systems, which led to serious concerns about various weapon's systems ability to operate after nearby nuclear explosions. I was told police, fire services, and a host of other radios would be useless for a large area of the east coast! Radar | TerryFetterman | 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. This means they can be manhandled safely and maintained with the rocket motor installed. I also showed him where in the log I made two calls when only one was required. As the larger Hercules would be easier to adapt to a longer-range form, the Army selected it as the winning design. TD Barnes | Tom Cluff | 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. 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. the missile tracking radar in the Nike-Hercules mode, and from the target thing working a Nike site some [15] Minimum range had a ground radius of approximately 10,000 yards (30,000ft; 9,100m) and an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet (6,100m) 20,000ft.[15], Throughout the early Nike evolution, the then-new Air Force had been encouraged by the deployment of the missile systems. Launched against such a formation, the Nike would fly towards the center of the composite return. We had four missiles in the building. MemoryLane | Apparently they had gotten tired of swimming. Reunions; Current Events; Cold War. 801 and above-Non-scanning Germany 1961 - 62: On hot status and sleeping in the panel room, mice and rats nibbling on our snacks and at times the ears of the crewman. 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. 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. From: "Robert Bennington" My name is Michael Williquette. Can you say Asbestos time it was only 1974. HM-69 | Initially the nuclear-armed version carried the W-7 Mod 2E nuclear warhead, with yields of 2.5 or 28 kt. My MOS was 22f20 Nike electronic maintenance and warhead specialist. There were concerns about the possibility of Air Force fighters being attacked by Army missiles, but the two forces improved co-ordination between the Army's ARAACOM and the Air Force's Air Defense Command (ADC) to the point where it was no longer a serious concern. Hercules was designed from the start to operate from Ajax bases. This also applies to All Radar Equipment used in All American Military Services.Exposure To Ionizing Radiation By Radar, Microwave Radio Frequency,->>> Carl Palmer, near Seattle, WA sent this out & I got started with sharing this Important . 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 ". Finding Definitions | has. about being thrown from a moving (wrecked to say the MS-70 | This was aircraft with speeds up to Mach 3, a wide range of radar cross sections, and powerful electronic countermeasures. garage into the Mass Hall when they rebuild adm/barrecks. @MacGregor We, the 333rd, were briefly on orders to go to Vietnam as an ABM unit (like HUNH??!) Overview | No equipment mechanic was on site so as the SSG in charge of the engineering section I was called in and no sooner after I had the missile back down and into the bunker and I was walking away from the hill there was a MAJOR DIRECT LIGHTENING STRIKE to the exact launch door that had been jammed open with a raised NIKE HERC MISSILE. 09/1963-09/1966, From: Hardy, Timothy A CIV (US) LA-88 | I mean really fired it up, small spark followed immediately by a medium explosion! a rattle snake in your tent The Captain told the civilian that he had been notified by the Army two years ago that these tests would take place and when. Maintenance | [9]:5657, Improving performance against such targets would require either much higher resolution radars or much larger warheads. Boss said it couldn't be done, we said give us 2 weeks, we ran into a little trouble acquiring a power converter that we could operate off the tank system to power the radar. Government mistakenly told them it was safe to return to their home island. ANTENNA The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. It was up to him to take whatever action was necessary to protect his equipment. Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013. The resulting reflections may present a potential hazard to personnel working in the vicinity of the passive antennas. Ordnance | Alaska | Each Nike battery consisted of two or three areas; IFC, LA and general. For years later my wife thought it was cute that I glowed at night. Oozlefinch | Those black, yellow and red Korean hornets. PreservingSF-88L | TerryFetterman | He was playing with the seal on his clip and broke it. Second lt. were probably the most dangerous, trying to convince everyone they knew it all but they were just getting started. fingers (fuel shortage had to One year I was on the warhead team. This system was successfully tested at White Sands on 1 October 1961. Missile Specificaitons The Hercules missile could travel 87 miles down range and 150,000 feet in altitude. The fuselage had a bullet-like shape (SearsHaack body), but this was difficult to make out due to the presence of the four large delta wings running almost the entire length of the fuselage. [12], During this period, some effort was put into a frangible booster for the Ajax. All CONUS Hercules batteries, with the exception of the ones in Florida and Alaska, were deactivated by April 1974. 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! 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! [6]:20, In 1953, Project Nike delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system, known simply as Nike. [36] The firing or launch command was given manually by the Battery Control Officer based on orders or Rules of Engagements. 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. There was an American with him in the barn at the time but didnt see him lock and load a round. RockyStovall | The Nike Hercules began replacing the Nike Ajax in 1958. Developed by Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque and at Los Alamos, it was given 1A priority by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1953. The intensity of the beam from the target tracking radar in Radar | The Hawk locked on and blew the whole back half of the bus off. Crests | 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. TrainingGuide | Chicago was slated to shortly begin receiving its Hercules upgrades. I mean we were working 24 hours straight. From web site VA.gov. C-50 | 111 rows from web site va.gov. Personnel should not be permitted to enter areas where they may be exposed to levels above 10 milliwatts per square centimeter. LCT op in Germany. Nike Hercules was included in SALT I discussions as an ABM. 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. Approximately 25,000 Nike Hercules were manufactured. BR-04 | R&D, 2d Bn 51st Arty Individual Training Guide, New 2nd Lieutenants trying to get BCO C-4-44 | Granted sovereignty to the marshall islands, including bikini, in the 1980s. During development the Air Force continued its Project Wizard while the Army started its Project Plato studies for dedicated anti-missile systems. rapidly diminishes as the distance is increased. The NVA knew we were coming. Ajax | Members | A discussion about veterans health. Still at Redstone: Having a generator mechanic switch out generators and not have it in phase with the other generator running to the van. Eating out of marmite cans 2 times a day every other day for years. I was at Delta Team 43rd Artillary with our headquarters in Duran. To address this whole range of issues, Bell proposed a series of changes:[26]. equipment could present a potential hazard to battery personnel. 2nd of the 52nd | Panel Room, before they installed stairs. LA-43 | As Hercules had evolved from the fixed-base Ajax system, early deployments offered no mobility. The LA also had a control van to control and monitor the LA activities and maintenance facilities. [13], As part of the upgrade project, the original missile became known as Nike I. 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! Reunions | The addition of the TRR solved a problem with early pulse radar units. Gilbert Burke | 111 rows from web site va.gov. Handling | | A power level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter, U.S.targets | The active seeker system was later dropped to lower costs. RockyStovall | TacticalControl | In 1959 both the House and Senate debated the systems, with the Senate recommending cutting funding for Hercules and the House stating the opposite. The guidance commands were sent to the missile by modulating the MTR transmit signal. While at 93 (C-2-51) in San Rafael and at 88 (B-2-51) in Marin, deer and raccoons would often be found wandering around the area, or in case of the deer, charging us when sighted. Haul it back to battery the same day. At the same time, there were increasing concerns that higher speed aircraft would be able to launch their warheads at the extreme range of the Nike bases. A new missile could be launched about 11 seconds after detonation or rejecting the previous missile. HA-08 HA-25 | I called the number at 2:45 AM and got no answer (this was before answering machines). He was safe but tube died. 1969: Attack on USSR? You may be entitled to disability compensation if these military exposures resulted in a disease or injury. Tents were only 8 to 10 feet from the building they were rebuilding. [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. We looked everywhere for the slug and SASCOM came in to search for it too. Finding a nike hercules' warhead armed itself after a power surge or drop. MTR operator console. [9]:6162, Eventually, in November the new Secretary of Defense, Neil H. McElroy announced both systems would be purchased. When the missile neared the intercept point a command signal was sent to the missile to explode.[36]. Think of being in the worlds biggest microwave oven, ouch! AttackonUSSR? Ordnance | Nuclear Missiles in Miami; ALASKA'S COLD WAR . See hearing transcript at pp. The booster was formed from four of the earlier Ajax M5E1 boosters held together in a frame. Eventually we started seeing things that looked to be about an inch square and different lengths. Then put it back in the barn. 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). 2nd of the 52nd | There was a 5-second allowance for the missile to launch, if it failed to do so it was marked "rejected" and another missile selected. 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. HA-08 HA-25 | Mosquitoes at HM-69 in the middle of 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. [38], Hercules could carry either a nuclear warhead or a conventional high-explosive warhead (T-45 fragmentation type). The former three-missile Nike Hercules base in Rocky Point is now the site of an Army Reserve Center but the remnants of the missile base remaina variety of structures and missile silos. The Captain said "my Specialist called you twice as a courtesy before the test took place but nobody answered the phone". Lucky it was an H.E.). Pittsburgh | [24], Even before deployment of Hercules began, studies on improvements to the system had been identified. This happened to a 16B We had been working on the cable cleaning for quite some time when he came by to check on us. fragments moving same war head Vets at Homestead AFB had to treat them- a tricky procedure for both the vet and the dog handler. MOS 16b20 electricity, Caked ice on radar tower ladders and Damage to body tissue is not immediately Sent him to the hospital. Hercules | EOD failed to come out to see, but sent instructions on what to do. Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 take a cab), Best The civilian on the phone and two other scientists received a Noble Prize for discovering cosmic background radiation in space, the C.O.B.E. I was diagnosed in October 2014. Oozlefinch | We were later stopped by MP's and and I thought we were going to be arrested but they finally let us go. LaunchEquipment | I think what we were putting in the jeep was solid propellant fuel for the missiles. A similar test on 17 July against a 300-knot (350mph; 560km/h) Q2A destroyed the target with the T45. Happened to a PVC Zachary at C5-6th in Baumholder Fg around 1977-78. Have to make a 90 degree turn on the way back. AirDefense | LaunchSet | down range (two MPs injured), Last The TRR system combatted this by allowing switching between two very different set of frequencies. To operate the Nike Hercules system on the IFC the crew consisted of about nine operators under command of the Battery Control Officer (BCO). Service personnel records show that the veteran spent most of his active duty service at the nike missile battery in milwaukee. [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. 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. The mishap led to the release of four nuclear weapons. Thule's air defense was reduced during 1965, and SAC air base defense during 1966, reducing the number of batteries to 112. 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. Prior to assuming hot status we had to run a drill. driving jeeps. R. . HIPAR used its own displays and operators, and forwarded targeting information to the LOPAR operators who would then pick up those same targets on their own display. 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