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Show The Deseret Sampler, Fri., March 23, 1973 From The Arctic . . . Sp4 Johnny R. Francis (left) zeroes in on a tan; hulk with an XM47 Dragon Guided Missile l.aunrh F.f. SNOW DRAGON fects Trainer. Specialist Frracis, a native of Hlythedale, Mo, participated in the evaluation of the trainer by the U.S. Army Arctic Test Center at Ft. Greely. Alaska. The Alaskan center is one of three where the Army studies the characteristics of the natural environment on Amy equipment. (U.S. Army Photo) FAT, AHOMIXAKLE PARACHUTNo, Jut Sp4 Dale A. Smith (right) S. Army Arctic Test Center helping the at Ft. Greely, Alaska, check out some cold weather gear. Specialist Smith, a native of Homer, Alaska, is wearing a cold weather face mask, wh ch was haring a service test, and an extreme cold weather hood-psrk- a with synthetic fur, which was undergoing a product improvement test. Underneath his reserve parachute ia a ruck sack that contains hia evistencc load rations, clothing, sleeping bag, etc. He ia pictured without a weapon, but hia appearance would scare the emmy to death. (U.S. Army Photo) A IST? I Army veterans of arctic, desert and tropic duty will tell you that Mother Nature was their No. 1 enemy. the W h il e weather cant be changed, the U.S. Army Teat and Evaluation Com. mand (TECOM) believes its testing can change equipment and procedures to enable soldiers to ' protect them- selves and their gear wherever Maj. Gen. Charles Drown P. Commander U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command they go. But that's not as simple as it sounds, according to Maj. Gen. Charles P. Brown, commander of TECOM, which is a major subordinate element of the Army Materiel Command. The plain truth is that we don't have all the answers. We need to know much more about how the combination reacts to climatic extremes and why, General Brown said. Ideally, the battle against environmental effects begins in the design stage. This is a basic requirement embodied in recent changes in the materiel acquisition pn cess," he continued. But the ability to specify materials, kits and components that will function effectively under all conditions presupposes a much greater understanding of them than we now possess, he added. General Brown commands 14 proving grounds, service test boards and environmental test centers from his headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Of primary importance are three environmental test centers whose responsibilities range from studies of the characteristics of the natural environment to evaluations of hardware performance. At Ft. Greely, Alaska, the Arctic Test man-machi- More Canter occupies mure than 750,000 acres of typical arctic terrain. The test station is located in the midst of one of the coldest spots in the Northern Hemisphere. The other is in Siberia. Recently, the temperature dropped there to a record low of minus 80 degrees F. The Tropic Test Center is at Ft. Clayton on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. Its test sites are scattered throughout the Canal Zone and offer excellent opportunities for observing the varied effects of the hot, humid environment on men and equipment. The Desert Test Center, near Yuma, Ariz., includes almost a million acres of arid wasteland in the Sonoran Desert out where the dust begins. The post wss established in 1943 by the Corps of Engineers to test bridges, boats, vehicles and well drilling equipment. Bit by bit, the Army is accumulating much of the essential knowledge it needs to approach with greater confidence and expertise the problems of operations in the arctic, desert and tropica, General Brown said. (ANF) . . . Through The Desert . . . . . . In The Tropics A DESERT DRAG Two Model DTE Crawler Tractors undergu a durability test at U.S. Army Desert Test Center at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. The center is one of three in which the Army studies the characteristics of the natural environment on equipment. In this particular test, new radiator cores with improvements to reduce erosion from sand particles are being evaluated. Civilian test drivers are Robert the Carlon (left) and Walter Gist, both of Yuma. (U.S. Army Photo) EMPTY AND Fl'l.l, This 10.000 gallon cnllapMihle petroleum storage tank was tested at the I'.S. Army Tropic Test Tenter. Atlantic Test Branch, at Toco Sujo. Canal Zone. The tank was checked for leakage, signs of wear, general deterioration, fungus growth and other environmental effects. (I'.S. Army Photo) MISSILE OVER THE SAND A TOW Missile is shown immediate'y after being fired from the launcher at the Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. The launch was part of the environmental tests of the TOW Missile System conducted by the U.S. Army Desert Test Center, whirh takes in almost a million acres of arid wasteland in the Sonoran Desert. The instrumentation in the bottom right of the picture measured the missile's ve'ocity throughout the flight. (U.S. Army Photo) jeep-mount- CAMOUFLAGE is placed over a tent shell as part pf a n General Purpose Tent project test at the Pacific Test Branch of the U.S. Army Tropic Test Center, Chiva-Chiv- a Test site. Canal Zone. (U.S. Army Photo) Two-.Ma- The DTC Deseret Sampler Publ idled as a civilian enterprise newqwper in the interest of penonnel of the Deseret Test Center, Ft. Douglas and Dugway, Utah, by the Transcript-Bulleti- n Pub! idling Company, Tooele, Utah, (publishers of the Tooele Transcript and Tooele Bulletin) in accordance with Department of the Army Regulations. 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