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Show 1ST COMBAT EVALUATION UNIT IN MILFORD Beginning October 1, Strateg ic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bombers will fly low-level bombing missions against sim-uluated sim-uluated targets near Milford and Green River, Utah. Radar bomb scoring equipment equip-ment at Air Force facilities near these two towns will use radio and radar signals to measure accuracy of simulated bomb drop J. A mobile Radar Bomb Scoring Scor-ing (RBS) facility is located at Milford. This, mobile RBS facility fa-cility is designed to inject realism real-ism into SAC training programs pro-grams by providing crews with a wide range of unfamiliar targets tar-gets and royteg. Approximately 40, Air Fpr.ce personnel will rnan the site Milford. There are abo.ut 1 extras here at the present time but they will he" leavjn a about l(i dgV. The regular personell are rad.-. ar and electronic teehni.cians '-mostly said Mgj. Jame IfoyjngJ commander, gf he ynlt. jn the past ye have heil traveling w4th oux living quarters quar-ters anef fining facilities right en the train, but these were left at Ogden on the trip to Milford end -we have contracted contract-ed Motels In Beaver to house ihe the men and they will eaf in the restaurants, Ilorrie hase for the cletaeh,-. ment is Barksdale Airforce Ijase near Shreveport, J.oujHana. It's hard to tell what economic econ-omic impact it will haye on the community, he said. We have a pretty good idea as it was in the past where we had qur own facilities and we bought everything every-thing locally but this is the first time we have Jived in motels, ho said. About V2 of the present crew will be leaving In three week and new men will be sent in to replace them to bring the complement com-plement up to about 40. An Open House of the facility fa-cility is being planned in about two weeks, he said. All flight will be subsonic, you probably won't even hear them, though you will be able to see them, he said. |