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radar stations for 1CEVG

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(RBS) of Strategic Air Command bomber crews beginning in March 1961. Electronic equipment included the "MSQ-39, TLQ-11, MPS-9, and the IFF/SIF for the MSQ-39" along with support railcars ("work train"), and the trains were temporarily used at various rail sites (e.g., sidings) with the radar antennas emplaced using hoists built onto flatcars. Pulled by a "contracted locomotive" that left the train at the site (e.g., for 45 days), and a

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was used for calibration of the radar station. Each train used "existing U.S. Army stock" from Ogden General Depot, and each train's 21 cars (17 support and 4 radar cars) included "a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance) dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 rew sleeping cars" Depot maintenance for the trains was at the

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("Army Rail Shops"). Major Eugene R. Butler was the 1st commander of the "First RBS Express", and each 1CEVG squadron's detachments manned a train (after the 1965 discontinuation of RBS squadrons, RBS detachments continued operating trains.) Butler's command had 60 11th RBS airmen: 15 from the Joplin Bomb Plot and others from the bomb plots at La Junta CO, Bismarck ND, Minneapolis MN, Salt Lake City UT, St Louis MO, and Little Rock AR.

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{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606171407/http://www.1stcombatevaluationgroup.com/1CEVG_skyspot_history.PDF , date=2013-06-06 {{cite news , title=Combat Evaluation Group - A place for CEVG'ers and Range Rats to Meet (Yahoo newsgroup) , date=January 9, 2000 Citations in chronological order: *{{cite news , author=johnd584 , date=November 26, 2004 , title=Message 11827 , quote=11th RBS express set up in Rhame ND and Capt Reeves from Bismarck was the commander in summer of 1961 or 62 *{{cite news , last=Reyburn , first=David W , date=November 29, 2004, title=Re: Re: ombat Evaluation GroupRe: RBS Express , quote=''train in Deeth, Nevada in April 1, 1963…train in Igloo, S.D. the middle of August 1963 and was there until we moved the train to Vaughn, N.M. the first of Oct. 1963…Train at Creston, WY the first of April…left for the Train Nov 12, 1964 for Moulton, Iowa…train and moved it to Scott City, KS…Left the train About February 25, 1965… train in Oberlin, LA in the middle of August 1965 *{{cite news , last=McAfee , first=Emerson R , title=tbd , quote=train. … Several of us…volunteered to go to Lake City in 1964… And we had all kinds of volunteers for Mayfield, KY *{{cite news , last=Withers , first=Daniel A , date=February 17, 2005 , title=Message 13073 , quote=Closing Deeth (literally), we relocated to the New Mexico garden spot of Vaughn. *{{cite news , last=McAfee , first=Emerson R , date=August 6, 2005 , title=Re: Greetings! , quote=I was at Det. 8 Richmond from Jun 63-Apr 72. I also made trips to Browns IL but we were the ones who moved it from Mauk GA to Browns so I was only at Browns for about a week *{{cite news , last=Hirsch , first=Ken , date=August 6, 2005 , title=Message tbd , quote=I was stationed at Detachment 3, Statesboro, GA from Oct. 1963 - Sept. 1966. Tours on the RBS Express were at…Browns, IL; Jonesboro, AR; Train on display in Philadelphia, PA; Mount Pleasant, TN and Port Henry, NY (2 tours - I liked it up there!). *{{cite news , last=Avery , first=Jim , date=August 8, 2005 , title=Message 15844 , quote=We actually moved the train from Lake City, SC to Browns, IL. (The train moved from Mauk, GA to Thoreau, NM). *{{Cite news , last=Ross , first=Don , date=August 30, 2007 , title=Sqdns, Det 4 and Germany , url=https://groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/38535 , format=Yahoo newsgroup , access-date=2012-07-09 , quote=three RBS Express trains. One per sqdn *{{cite web , last=Skinner , first=Don , date=July 31, 2010 , title=Memories/1CEG , url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OyiJjj_m1tcJ:groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/86756+reeves+%22msq-35%22&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us , access-date=2012-09-24 , quote=I spent the first 3 months of 1964 on RBS Express at Thoreau, NM as maintenance man {{Dead link, date=November 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Cold War military history of the United States Electronic warfare Strategic Air Command Railway weapons