The Pershing Cable (May 1980)
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the
Pershing able
56th
Field Artillery Brigade
May
1980
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Pershing:
Followins years of post WWII
111iaile
development on May 16,
19S8
trooi,e
of
he
40th Artillery Group succaa ully flrod the
US Army'
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fi11t
major mobile
tactical
picled
missile system - Redstone. ·
Nccdins
a
smaller,
more mobile
aystem
• ith
increased range,
the
us Army eam .
tic
Missile Agency bcpn
-wort on u
im
proved weapon to
replace
Redstone. The
new weapon would
have a 'MIP twice that
ol Redatone. It wu umed l'albing.
Se,e.
ral impnwclllCIIII to tbil
millile
proridcd
greater
handling
cue and
incrcued
n,lia.
bility and mobility.
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By
Janury
1960 the r1n1 "Penbina"
n s
ready ror launcb. On Feb. 2s, the
ta t
vehicle
wu
fired on a 30-mile njoctory
rrom Cape Canavcnl
oat
l t the Atlan
tic Test Range. for a saa:eufnl flighL
Four IIIOdified tradCld Yeblclca
tnlJII.
ported the cqulpmcnL
June I 960, another suc:cad'ul launch
lated erratic motlon pros111mmed
into
the missile'• flight path
IO
prove ttability.
Penhina •u
aunched in Fcbnwy 1961
and
auccasl'ully demonstrated ill incrtiaJ.
pidancc
system. Penhing tranW down
nnge
.00.miles
cm:r
tbe Atlantic in Jan-
11.U)' 1962 ror lta lint
flail
flighL The teat
program ended
ID I 963.
During teatina at the Cape,
2.SO
key
military pmoc,nel from Redatone Aneaal
and Fort SW
armed
in Orlando Septem
ber
I961
to receive
I6
•ccb ol training
ill
12 different
Pcnhina
specialilic:a.
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die W . . . . . . . .
. . . . ArtllerJ . . . * lint p . . . . .
a.ttalloa
lldnat.cl
at F. t SIi. Oc
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Seaeary el
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Pershing
Cable
Wdccme IIIU . S6CI FW11 Ar1illlry ln
ga4h. Yoa
irre
a f t t f lllportant I . : a l k
succeuful acc:omplilhmcnt ol oar lllleaiaa.
Your tour
will
be challcnaing and 1rill do
mand the utmoatol lle kll l l
JI* l ine
leee
taught
and
acq11ired.
Ptnhina, u a ...._ al NATO, ._
demandinj milliclft
••icb
uailta ll bepi
(ICaCC ia .Eurape and
indeed,
the _.,,:f
Each lirina
11.ttcry
.-Ill ,pend a
bout one
fOllrtb ol each yea r at a .mnote lirin1
Iii&.
Tbc
remaiadcr of the
year
the
unill
main-
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tain equipment and train
fOI'
our ..nhne
million. Ftcld training Qercila are held
throupout tbe year. A
jolt well
done will
give
you a tmnendoua feelina: ol llllsl'ac
tion, pride and accomplishment.
To
accompliah our mission we have
twee
Pmhi11g
battaliom and an inf1ntry 11.ttaJ.
ion. The 2d Battafion, 4th I.Jlfaotry
pnMdes
IICQnty far the Pmhing b ttalims.. We are
autborized CM:I' SOOO soldiers
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an: I la·
tioned bi ioutbera Germany Clll eipt
JCa.
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aacl tllreenmote
l'irias aitcl.
Orilian
echtc:ational
epportunitia, IOlm
throughout Gennuy
and Europe,
and
•many other mcana ol reluation and indi·
l'idaal Clll'idmlent will be in military
CIOllllllunity.
O.rin1
yoor
off/:;
ime
and
*ri l l l
•ve.
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011
to
1111,umi:re
tbe -
al
yow educational fadlilioo ud
roc:rcation aa,,icc:a lacilitiea.
I am certain . . wil diocover la to lie
both
illtcnstl111
and enjoyable. . . _ f t l
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to tbc
S6tll
Ftcld Anillery Brigade
1111d
cnjoy·your
tour.
RICHARD D. BOYLE
Major
ae-al .
USA
Commandins
over
s~xt~en years
in service for
· he
defense of
the free world
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unified
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included
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to the
prog
mer•tal 11ation, a i.ttery control ce
and U1 Improved
ercctor•launcha.
t.bc
aystan
wu
mounted
oa
wbecb
l lad ot tracb
to
PenhiDa to
firina
l i te r.ter
ud with
fewer ma
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. -med
tbe
QRA
role prepared to o
• a aactear
dct1cmlt
in
IAlppor
NATO• well u pcnonn ita
buic
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ol
111 1Widi111 - . i - . e
fuq,owe
support ,#
he
fleld
utillay.
Once
tbe system •u
developed
tated there.. he problem of aupp
tbe 1roop1 in
tho with t.bc ._ .
u d
remainlq com i.t
ready.
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impro¥elllCIIIJI
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added. Tlac
ADIOmatic R.elermce Sys
=.. ud the Sc,qnential Lau
(SI.A).
Tbe
AJts
deccrmine
accurate
flrina
azimuth. TIie SLA
Tided t.bc p la ._ loader
tho
capalnlit
acqneotialfy COIIDtin& alld lauocllin& u
t11ree witJa a aingle PTS and
without ,-blhta
between
individua
mrtartina witll •
IOlld buic
') 'It.em
Im
bcea coalillwiDy
improoe
bc p iq with tlle ._ . role u d adva
lDCDl
Iii tecfmolocy. The PerabiJ1a II
t.bc
~t
iaae, is a hattlc
support
miDile, which
...,.
radar
an
computer
to
. it
targets
u rar u
milea away. AD
tbac
yeen for
tbe
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