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Show The U. S. Army Meteorological Team The U. S. Army Meteorological Team (RDT&E Support), Dugway, was established at Dugway Proving Cround in December, 1953. The original team consisted of one officer and fifteen enlisted men sent to Dugway from Aviation and Meteorological Department, men located at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. During the interim years, the activities and authorized strength have expanded considerably. TODAY, THE DUGWAY Met Team consists of sixty-eigenlisted men and two officers. The Commanding Officer of the IT S Imu Mat Tmmmn tm PPT It.!- - r H- u nttt Ul. 17 h 2LT K1! A- - Sambuchi, his First Sergeant is MSC Jessie D. wacior ana ms uperanons sergeant is six: frank J. Fredrick. The Meteorological Team is composed of four field teams. The team chiefs are SSG Dale E. Eisenbise - first team, SSG Edward A. Jacobs - second team, SSG Milton H. Yarborough - third team and SSG George E. Anderson - fourth team. There are approximately 13 men assigned to a field team. ht rJUji FIELD CREWS set up weather testing devices around a testing site to insure the curacy of data concerning the direction and intensity of prevailing winds. ac- SSG MILTON H. YARBROUGH, SP4 Michael J. Hutson, SP5 Lawrence SSG Edward A. Jacobs prepare a field van for a weather test. K. Webb and The primary mission of the Team is to provide meteorological services in support of chemical and biological systems development, engineering testing and service testing programs. In addition, the Met Team supports the Deseret Test Center which is located in Salt Lake City and has a personnel strength of one officer and six enlisted men. The Met Team has two branches: Operations and Under these branches are the following sections: Climatology, Projects and Test Support. THE INSTRUMENTATION Section maintains the Met the equipment, constructs special Met equipment and Bendix Micro-Me-t Network installed at Dugway. This network is capable of recording at its central station the wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, precipitation and temperature gradient, all of which are measured at six locations in the testing area. mnn MEMRERS HIT TTIIT m. aiu XMVT T17AVf SRllvi anKl auna :,ta,at uiui JmIJ' VlV.iaaB I niHffl c II Will j a- - I IIW'MWMig! (weather balloon) on the pictured equipment. The infonnatran received is then plotted h wCTiiagi msiy. u This information is relayed in by wire on a set-tischedule or upon demand. The information is automatically typed in readable form and keypunched for future reference. The Climatology Section, as its name implies, analyses and processes climatological data gathered in and around Dugway Proving Ground. THIS IS A PICTURE of the Rawin Building. Here, the weather is measured and then charted. Large balloons are sent up and tracked on a miniature radar set. THE PROJECTS SECTION of the Met Team coordinates the weather information received from die Test Support Section of the Team with special tasks. S U. S. Army Meteorological Teams are providing specialized meteorological support to about 60 Army research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) activities by manning more than 100 sies, located in the U. S. from Alaska to the Canal Zone. 5v ft service to Army. RDT&E activities was Meteorological initiated in 1951 by the Meteorological Branch of the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories (since redesignated). Fort Monmouth, N. J. As a result of demands by Army agencies for meteorological assistance, the first Army Meteorological Team was established at Yuma, Arizona, Test Station; Fort Huachuca became the headquarters in 1954. I3 3s SPECIALIST FIVE ELOY M. GARCIA adjusts the sensitive weather instruments in one of the Met Team's field vehicles. AMONG THE ORGANIZATIONS being supported Command, Test and Evaluation Command, Mobility Command, Munitions Command, Combat Developments Command, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, U. S. Army Natick Laboratories, Missile Command, Ballistics Research Laboratory and the Deseret Test Center. SPKIALIST FOUR GARY A. LONG load, helium tanks aboard one of the field The helium is employed to fill the weather balloons which are then used to tain information on weather conditions. s. ob- Meteorological support is tailored to fit the needs of the individual agencies. Operations of some ofparticular the teams are limited while others provide a broad gamut of services, including hourly surface and upper-ai- r observations. f .i r ''iv& w:' :: ' Most of the teams take nonstandard observations and measurements, such as solar radiation, ozone, dust,, temperature and wind profiles, wind chill and wet-bul- b globe temperature index. In RDT&E programs, it is imperative that all of the recorded meteorological data, visual observations and weather forecasts be extremely accurate. The success or failure of many Army tests and experiments depends upon accurate information provided by the Army Meteorological Teams.. V Oi': i w .:;..-.::;?r.:FV- ;-r;; MEMBERS OF THE MET TEAM ready a weather balloon for take-ofThe balloon carries weather instruments and a small transmitter into the atmosphere and these devices relate the data back to the tracking station. f. v ( WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, a member of the Met Team operates the radar tracking device which receive information from weather balloons high in the atmosphere. I |