Radar Bomb Scoring Division

The Radar Bomb Scoring Division was a Strategic Air Command military organization which controlled the Radar Bomb Scoring units and operations of the 1st Combat Evaluation Group. The division included a maintenance office[1] and as with the preceding 1st Radar Bomb Scoring Group at Carswell AFB, the division had 3 Radar Bomb Scoring Squadrons with RBS detachments at fixed radar stations and at semi-mobile radar stations. The semi-mobile stations called "MDLs (Mobile Duty Locations) were sites set up for SAC special missions [and the] equipment, trailers, books, etc" were stored at Barksdale AFB when not in use.[2] Each squadron manned an RBS Express train, but the squadrons were inactivated in 1966 after Vietnam War deployments had begun.[3] RBS trains were inactivated later in the war after the 1968-9 Project 693 discharging 1st term SAC airmen up to 11 months early.[4] After the Vietnam War ended, the annual Combat Skyspot trophy was awarded for the outstanding RBS detachment (e.g., to Ashland Det 7 in 1985).[5]

Stations

1CEVG radar stations before/after squadron closures on 25 July (12th), 22 August (11th), & 19 September (10th) 1965
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Det 10th RBS 11th RBS 12th RBS 20 September 1966 31 June 1989
1 CO: La Junta
Montreal, Canada
 CO: La Junta (1959–1995)[6]
2 MO: Joplin (tbd-1969)[4][7] SD: Badlands SD: Badlands (1960–1968) AZ: Holbrook AFS (1968–1993)[8]
3 NC: Charlotte GA: Statesboro
4 CA:Sacramento[9] GA: Statesboro MO: Oronogo[4]
Bann, West Germany[8] (1970[10]-c. 1985)[11]
5 FL: Tampa ID: Wilder (c. 1993)[12]
6 MI: Bayshore (1963[13]-1985)
7
London, England
 ME: Ashland Strategic Training Range (1963–90)[14]
8 KY: Richmond [15] KY: Richmond[10]
9 AZ: Winslow[16] OH: Springfield UT: St. George (July 1966 from Winslow-tbd)[17]
10 NE: Hastings[18] [19] ND: Bismarck[10] KY: Blue Grass AD NE: Hastings
11 NY: Fort Drum NY: Ft Drum
12 MS: Laurel[20] NV: Hawthorne
13 MS: Ellisville
14 ND: Bismarck (1961[10]-1986)[21]
15 [most of the above deployed for Vietnam Combat Skyspot]
   Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam
16 WY: Powell
17 MT: Havre[10] (1986[22]-c. 1993)[10]
18 MT: Forsyth
19 ND: Dickinson
20 MT: Conrad[23]
21 SD: Belle Fourche

References

  1. ↑ "Smith, Lowell Vetter, TSgt" (biography webpage). TogetherWeServed.com. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
  2. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aXdhdCD9OEIJ:groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/3311+%22Hawthorne+Bomb+Plot%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
  3. ↑ . "Chapter II: Personnel". 1st Combat Evaluation Group (SAC): April–June 1966 (DocStoc.com image) (Report). Volume I. Retrieved 2012-07-14. (partial transcription at 1stCombatEvaluationGroup.com)
  4. 1 2 3 History of the Strategic Air Command: 1969 (PDF) (Report). Historical Summary 116. Office of Command History. Retrieved 2013-08-26. SAC had 64 detachments at the end of FY-69, an increase of nine, offset by a reduction of three. One discontinued was Detachment 4, 1st Combat Evaluation Group (CEG), Oronogo, Missourie. It was the second detachment of the 1CEG to be inactivated in 1968.100 … Scoring activity stopped on 15 December, the equipment was moved,105 and the detachment inactivated on 25 January.106 The other two reductions were Detachments 3 and 19, 3902nd Support Squadron, at Altus and Homestead AFBs, where Manpower Evaluation Teams were no longer required. … 100. Det 13, Ellisville, Miss, discontinued 2 Jun 68; Hist SAC, Jan-Jun 68, pp. 14-17.
  5. ↑ "Ashland group awarded Combat Skyspot trophy". Bangor Daily News. March 22, 1985. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  6. ↑ "Townsfolk Hope to Shoot Down Military's Bombing-Range Plans". Deseret News. 21 February 1995. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
  7. ↑ Kershaw, Marcia (8 December 1961). "Bomb Scoring Squadron To Be Moved To Mississippi Base in February". Joplin Globe; also reported in the Greenville Democrat Times. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-07. "…has been located on Oronogo Circle Hill at Joplin Bomb Plot since July of 1959 will be moved in February to Greenville air force Miss. In making the announcement the air force said the move is in line with a policy of transferring such units every two years. Detachment 2 was moved here from Oklahoma City under command of Major Eugene R. Butler with 35 men and officers and has grown to a strength of 72 Personnel … have manned the First a train carrying complete radar bomb scoring equipment for the purpose of scoring SAC bomber at remote locations … Major Butler was the first commander of the First RBS Express when it was put in operation during February … men of the detachment now are aboard that train and that Second and Third RBS Express trains have been added to the program … Joplin Bomb Plot … Hustler jet bombers began training missions at supersonic speeds in an air corridor above this district in October of 1960, the first sonic boom occurred to make area residents even more conscious of the canopy of aircraft which has operated above this region External link in |newspaper= (help)
  8. 1 2 MacDonald, Ray (29 January 2002). "Detachment 2 Holbrook, AZ" (history anecdote). 1 CEVG/DET 2 History (A fluid Document). 1CEVGA.com. Retrieved 2013-01-20. 1 CEVG/Det. 2 was moved from Wall, SD to Holbrook, AZ in 1968. We were up and running around the middle of April. …1990 when we became 99 ECRG/DET 2 . The last RBS/ECM sortie was on or about September 13, 1993. The last ECM-only sortie was on or about September 30, 1993. A B1-B from Dyes (not positive) flew the last RBS/ECM mission. A C-130 from Hulburt Field flew the last ECM mission. The period of time between October 1, 1993 and Christmas was used for decommissioning the systems
  9. ↑ "3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group - USAF - Korean War Project Page 1". www.koreanwar.org. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Combat Evaluation Group – A place for CEVG'ers and Range Rats to Meet" (Yahoo newsgroup). "Founded: 9 January 2000". Check date values in: |date= (help)    Citations in chronological order:
    • "Message 3276". Archived from the original on 2013-08-30. Havre Trainig [sic] Site MT (Different place from the earlier Havre AFS air defense radar site) … Interior RBSS, atop Hurley Butte … The family housing unit was on the western edge of Wall. It was actually a small mobile home park. There were a few Air Force trailers (two of which … There were 16 or 18 trailers I had the last one SE end along the fence ... I am also looking for Msgt. Mike Nelson |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
    • "Message 11831". 2004. Bismarck from October 1964 to January 1967. … When I first got there it was Det. 10, 11th RBS Sq. and was later changed to Det. 14, 1CEG. I also served on RBS Express No. 2 at Joseph City, AZ (Nov–Dec 1965) and Ree Heights, SD (July–Aug 1966) and RBS Express No. 3 at Rion, SC (Nov–Dec 1966).
    • "Message 12089". [Bismarck opened January 1961]
    • McAfee, Emerson R (6 August 2005). "Re: Greetings!". I was at Det. 8 Richmond from Jun 63 – Apr 72. I also made trips to Browns IL but we were the ones who moved it from Mauk GA to Browns so I was only at Browns for about a week
    • Ross, Don (30 August 2007). "Sqdns, Det 4 and Germany". Retrieved 2012-07-09. three RBS Express trains. One per sqdn
  11. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ok-K-2inVysJ:groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/messages/3279%3Fo%3D1%26xm%3D1%26m%3Dp+site:groups.yahoo.com+cevg+statesboro&hl=en&gl=us&prmd=imvns&strip=1
  12. ↑ "Closure plan saddens radar base chief". The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). 29 May 1993. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  13. ↑ Mueller (1982). "Wurtsmith Air Force Base". Air Force Bases as of 1982 (Report). p. 613.
  14. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bcx5Oy5tnlUJ:groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/11782+blotner+%22bomb+plot%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
  15. ↑ "Radar Bomb Scoring Site at Army Depot to Close". Lexington Herald-Leader. 29 May 1993. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  16. ↑ http://www.usaf-nav-history.com/dr0711.pdf
  17. ↑ http://archive.is/20130209185639/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/combatevaluationgroup/message/38535
  18. ↑ Spurlin, James. "[veteran listing 49816]". VetFriends.com. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  19. ↑ Wikisource:Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 3.djvu/532
  20. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vUgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_xIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=589,679523&dq=bomb-scoring-unit&hl=en
  21. ↑ "MSgt. Robert L. Dilley" (memorial webpage). Biography and Family of Robert L. Dilley. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  22. ↑ Havre RBS opened in 1986 http://www.rtbot.net/Havre_Air_Force_Station
  23. ↑ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-103hr2401enr/html/BILLS-103hr2401enr.htm
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