Iron County Record | 1962-11-29 | Page 9 | Radar Scorer near St. George Considered

Eadar Scorer Near St George Considered Possible location of a Fixed Type Radar Bomb Scoring Detachment De-tachment near St George, was -announced this week from the office of Senator Wallace F. Bennett Ben-nett (R-Utah). The announcement Indicated that the Air Force is currently conducting a preliminary survey of this area to determine its suitability suit-ability for such a site. A detachment detach-ment of this type, the Senator said, normally is assigned about 50 military personnel and remains re-mains in one location for about two years. I The Air Force's letter Indicating Indicat-ing the study, stated that "In order or-der to maintain a high degree of combat readiness in the Strategic Strate-gic Air Command Bomber Crews simulated bombing missions are conducted as a matter of routine training. The bombers fly over practice tracts and send out an electronic signal which is received receiv-ed on the ground and measured to indicate where a bomb would have landed, had an actual bomb been dropped." "This ground measurement," it Indicated, "is done by a number of radar bomb scoring detachments detach-ments which operate equipment from fixed or mobile scoring detachments de-tachments which operate equipment equip-ment from fixed or mobile platforms. plat-forms. In the fixed type, the scoring equipment is mounted on trailers which remains parked in one position throughout Uie detachment's de-tachment's stay in any one locality." lo-cality." Involved In the Investigation is discussion with civic leaders and examination of availability of family housing and land utilization. utili-zation. No final dlcision has been reached, the Senator stated. '