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Show B THE DESERET SAMPLER, Friday, March 28, 1980 a T7-- v'sl : ' ' vvv !'V 'v' '- s tXX 733urr - f H T1 - j , ..... A , s ) If if&Ji - . S N 4?j Ml .'iv .' Cheri L. Lefevre at the Supply Room and Tool Crib in the Instrumentation Control and Administrative Office. Donald R. Danlcs of the Instrumentation Brandi is shown repairing a Ro ' hot Chemist operator. JaBS5CeSiSsi?:fX.S Annie Redden of the Grid Operations Brandi is shown operating the washing and drying processors ' used for deaning of fieldI clothing. ecimiiMcaui smprocDF siderably cheaper when you equate the cost of film which contains silver. Continued from page one tankards, assorted dump trucks, 50 to 00 generators and more. This shop is considered the rescue crew because a lot of equipment gets bogged down in the mud and needs to be pulled out; They can do almost any kind of lifting work like helping the weapons branch with tube changing exercises when they change gun tubes on .artillery pieces. They do some road maintenance like building temporatry roads for test support- - and even help with snow removal. Optical Data runs between three hundred and five hundred thousand dollars on film, television could possibly cut that figure down. The photography laboratory is a custom processing facility, you can charge of the conditioning chambers two maintenance shop, they are and transportation vibration facilities. The vibration facility vibrates projectiles to insure their safety of handling and shipping. The chambers include an artic, tropic, high altitude, fungus, sand and dust; and storage chambers that run to 65 to -- 165 degrees Fahrenheit; they also have portable chambers and a small munitions handling facility. Keetch is also in -- process any kind of film you use from 16 mm to 70 mm.- It can do color or black and white printing. It is a pro- charge of building 308 which is an fessional operation. James Deal, agent transfer facility. Technical Support Chief, says, Its The Instrumentation Branch is the finest in the country considering headed the" product they are producing and by James Dyer. This is a key because branch the of amount work you cant collect data that considering OPTICAL DATA Branch is headis required of them. They run about .for tests without instrumentation. Ined by Frank Hirst.This branch has 50,000 feet of film in one month strumentation branch is a key elethree sections: Instrumentation Operment as far as handling, supplying and ations section, pictorial group and through that place. collecting data in support of tests. Grid Survey section. - WEAPONS branch is headed This branch is broken-dow- n into two Grid Survey does first order surby sections: Instrumentation Alfred K. Keetch. He and his crew are Support veys, impact area surveys in support and Instrumentation Operation. for the of the responsible of artillery programs. They survey operation artillery ranges. Current inventory test sites and camera positions and inInstrumentation Operation section weapons include such things as three is strumentation sites and in general colresponsible for operation mainte' eight inch M110 self propelled wealect survey data. of all the field instrumentation. nance pons, a couple of M109 The pictorial group does show and' weapons and more. They are respon- They also help the meteorological sible for mortar ranges and use firing team by collecting the meteorological tell, type of work like slide presentations but they also are responsible for projectiles in support of the various data, however they do not evaluate it. Most television work. Technical Support programs. The weapons branch is nance.operators do their own mainteThey are also in charge of has been emphasizing television as responsible for all of the storing of radar. opposed to film because it doesnt conventional munitions and agents; take as long to give a finished product" these items are' storqd in' igloos Instrumentation Support is a, class to the customer and because it is con- - located at Carr fadlity. They are in - responsible for maintenance of all the equipment that we have on such as typewriters, calcula- - of his brandies and sections. He has ic been in the test business since he uated from college with a mathe-Dugwamatics degree in 1956. Deal thinks tors and test communications (handheld radios, mobile radios in trucks and base stations). They are also in charge of avionics communications systems, sampler maintenance, and one thing that could improve testing, is to improve communication between divisions and directorates. He has a test philosophy as far as his division is concerned and that is that he computer facilities. This branch is known as a jack-o- f --alltrades in the sense that they must be extremely versatile. . TECHNICAL Support Division works very closely with other divisions of MT. There is quite a bit of interplay. The big product of Dugway is the test reports and that is what Tech support is interested in supplying data for. All of the organization and evaluation of that data is left to the other divisions. .They also work with English Vil- lage directorates such as logistics for supplies and procurement when they need instrumentation or instrumentation modernization. They are a part jof the total team, another link in the test chain. ' self-propell- ed - , . . . JT & Technical Support Director, James Deal must oversee and coordinate all grad-electron- y, . and his people must maintain flexibility because if one test is cancelled because of equipment malfunction or some other problem, his people must be able to switch over to some other kind of test rapidly. This utilizes the work force more efficiently but it also makes for a somewhat chaotic work environment. Over half of the Materiel Test employees (110 civilians, 18 military, and 15 temporaries) work for Deri, yet he says the work increases faster than the people can do it. Therefore, Technical Support is striving towards modernization in order to better utilize each individual. Deal says he ends up scheduling his work cm a priority system and he and his people do the ft.. Ti il.- Mti. -. bL: Tred Jermain of Weapons Systeir Brandi is shown operating the con trols for the vibration testing of eigh inch binaryjhells best they can with their limited resources. , .... i f? i mm lLVv?- -' WJI r ZTZ-- y":T'' Thorsted 'Mm 1 Rosemary Thorsted on taTrget S cycling sampler tests equipment to all is in working order. Ms. in-su- re is employed by the Grid Operations Brandi. i . -- t j . X) Personnel of the Technical Support Division are issued Protective prior to reporting for test work. I.'. -- w- V 7 mmmm V-.- ' SP4 limner $mith of Optical Data Branch is shown in the black and white printing laboratory . i 4 ?1 .v. ' A J f $ V? vV 'W J - H,. , A . f Jr s y' i i. i a . ' J - v Os f , - . :;v ' ' v , - W"' fC : "V- - ... J . .".r-'j., s : :- . Nl Ti - v ija , P:' t 7: V -r - t . ' . T c: - ' v Photos by 6. Kraut and SP5 J. Droubay. . f : '.nrVr 7' , . i.X J 'z. ! . 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