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Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by jimmy

jimmy — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:39:07 +0000

If anybody was on the hill in 83 at bliss..im james hoyt…private hurt hoyt…i was platoon guide for charley battery ssgt simmons and becknell…anybody know me or remember this time contact me at jspmfr@gmail.com

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by jimmy

jimmy — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:36:47 +0000

i trained on the system at bliss in the spring of 83…i loved it….

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by Ken Braget

Ken Braget — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:07:43 +0000

I was at Camp Pieri 61-63 cw repair.

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by Ken Braget

Ken Braget — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:03:31 +0000

I was at Camp Pieri, 515th Ord GS from 61-63 CW and Instrument calibration. Were you there?

Comment on Air Defense History: Talos, Terrier and the Standard Missile by John Bushore

John Bushore — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:02:05 +0000

I forgot to mention it was a Talos launch.

Comment on Air Defense History: Talos, Terrier and the Standard Missile by John Bushore

John Bushore — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:01:10 +0000

It should be noted that USS Long Beach, CGN9, got the first SAM kill in May, 1968, at a range of 65 miles. She got another one in Sept. ’68 at a range of 61 miles. I was there as an FTG@

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by RRSmith

RRSmith — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:40:59 +0000

Hey Chris, you must have come to 2/55 sometime after I had left B 2/55 to go to Germany, I was originally a 24E but dropped the course in mid NOV of 1980, I was sent to B Btry 2/55 as a 16E in January of 1981, CPT Romancik was the Btry cdr & we had 1SG Wheatley, he was allright, CPT Mangianello took over as BCin May of that year and 2 months after 2/55 recieved a pain in the ass BN cdr LTC Irvin S. Butler, not too many days go by when I don,t reminisce about the days of Germany, even to this very day paisan

Comment on M-4, M-16 and other rifles Part II. by Robert L Birt

Robert L Birt — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:39:39 +0000

I am a retired soldier with over 20 years of service and the distinguished pistol badge with years of rifle marksmanship instructon as an advanced marksmanship instructor. My son has his 20 year letter and my uncle retired from the US Army in 1900.
We are in need of a service rifle and pistol that armed forces will use in future battles.
1. we have to have a service rifle and pistol to meet the needs of war in situations where we do not have the elaborate support of todays army. That is at Fort Benning I was trained by soldiers that fought WW2 with Chinise and Phillipine irregular forces.
1. The M1 Gerand as first submitted by Gerand in Bullpup configuragion with a 40 round magazine should be investigated. improvements on the M1 like the M14 with rollers on the bolt and improvements in the gas operating system is a good place to start.
2. The handgun should fire a 230 grain bullet at 1000 feet per second
The important consideration has to be for weapons and equiptment that will work under conditions found behind enemy lines or national occapution by an enemy. The current issue battle rifle and pistol should be used to court marshal those responsible for their issue.

Finally the primary issue of number of sitizens in the force is more important than the quality of the equiptment.
We are doomed to failure when less than 1% of the population serve in the armed forces

Comments of an old soldier trained in organizational development

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by Chris Hernandez

Chris Hernandez — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:42:40 +0000

Funny how you run into people when you are stationed all over the place. At Ft. Bliss I ran into a guy I played football with in High School. He was waiting to go to WO school so he could enter the Apache program. One of our other friends was also in his unit and he had already left of Warrant officer’s school. One of the 16E NCO’s in Ft. Bliss in my platoon was a guy I had played football against in high school. My brother was in the navy and he was on shore leave in Japan and just walking down the street in Japan he ran into a guy I graduated with. When I was in Panama I ran into a guy I was in Ft. Bliss with and he ended up having an accident but it was some minor stuff and got sent home for recovery and he ended up living about 20 miles from me now. You really can make some life long friends in the service.

Comment on Air Defense History: The MIM-23 HAWK missile by RRSmith

RRSmith — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:04:02 +0000

I can relate to Panama, after I ETS,d in late May of 1984, I re-joined the Army in January of 1986 as an 11B, I went to Ft. Benning, GA for Infantry training then Jump school, I went to Ft. Bragg N.C for a while after finishing , but I ended my Jump status at Ft. Bragg and go sent to 25th I.D Schofield Barracks, HI (I hated it) I did deploy to other countries such as Australia, Panama, Korea and also Alasla for training, I can tell you this, I would have rather been stationed in Wildflecken, Germany any day of the week & twice on Sunday over Hawaii