MILITARY CAREER OF T.D. BARNES February 1954 - March 1964

WHERE I SERVED

OCS 5-62 Class Roster

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Headed for Korea

Gen. Jark awarding me

Commendation

Certificate

Btry B 31st FA

NIKE HERCULES AIR DEFENSE MISSILES
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After my tour in Korea, I spent a year at Fort Riley, Kansas while awaiting assignment to the Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules school at Fort Bliss, Texas. I attended school for 54 weeks learning the electronic maintenance of the various radar systems and the missiles.

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Little did I know at the time that ten years later I would be contracting for the CIA at Area 51 operating my Nike radar from Fort Bliss.

HAWK AIR DEFENSE MISSILES

A few months after my graduation from the Nike Hercules radar and missile school, I volunteered and was accepted to a 6 month class on the HAWK missile and radar system. Shortly after my graduation, my battalion was deployed to Germany because of the Iron Curtain crisis.

Deployment	More about the Hawk

UNIT ASSIGNMENTS

Basic training and then Korea 1955 - 1956

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Family after Korean tour 1956

Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules, & Hawk Missile schools Fort Bliss, Texas and then deployment to Germany 1956 - 1962

OCS Fort Sill, Oklahoma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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