| Show Missiles Arrive For Storage Four giant Titan H n missiles have havee arrived at Hill for storage in preparation a or a a. a re repair re- re pair workload t to b begin gin at the Utah air base later this year MAJ GEN T T. T Alan Bennett Ogden Air Materiel Area Commander Commander Commander Com Com- mander said that the repair project form j former was assigned to San Bernardino Air Materiel Area in California The workload is being transferred to Ogden AMA as a result of the phase- phase out of the San Bernardino AMA and two other AMAs announced last November by Secretary of Defense McNamara General Bennett said that approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately 1115 new personnel will be needed at lUll Hill to keep the Strategic Air Command Command Command Com Com- mand ICBMs ready at go The personnel allotments to do the Job will be transferred here from San Bernardino beginning next month as part of the phase-in phase program THE TUE MISSILES are from the Martin Co Denver the They and several others to follow are pares spares and are being held here until SAC re requires requires requires re- re quires them to rill ill silos vacated by Titan Us lIs I i jeding eding repair The repairable missiles willbe will willbe J be be e sent directly by vehicle to HillA Hill A total of tons of test and repair equipment to service the missiles will be transferred here from San Bernardino beginning next month A base building is being used to store the missiles and also will house the repair lines Various Titan n U components will be re repaired repaired repaired re- re paired in other Ogden AM AMA A maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- shops however TIT TITAN AN H n is the only ICBM using storable liquid propel- propel lants The missiles at Hill lUll will be inert and the propellant stored at the launch sites In ad addition addition ad- ad the inertial inertia guidance systems systems systems will be shipped direct from the silo to Newark Air Force Station Station Station Sta Sta- tion Ohio for repair Titan n U is a two-stage two missile feet tall including the reentry reentry reentry re en try package which is kept at the launch sites First stage is 71 feet long the second is 32 feet long and both stages are ten feet in diameter Total missile weight with fuel is about tons |
