User:Oldsurfr

While editing the page USAF Ships, I have encountered "copyright problems" due to not having documenting the download of a snapshot from a "range rat" email blog. The picture was submitted by a former crewmember of USNS Twin Falls who even mentioned the name of the ship in front of Twin Falls. I can even mention the name of the ship at the Navy pier acroos the harbor, The Observation Island.

The fact that the U S Army funded the purchase of the S.S. Twin Falls Victory for the Eastern Test Range, formerly the Atlantic Missile Range, is documented in Washington DC or elsewhere in a MIPR, (Military Interdepartmental Procurement Request). A special ship was required to track the Pershing (I) missile because the Atlantic Missile Range did not have the capability at that time. The ship was most likely modified with USAF funds, which were provided by MIPR from the Army.

I worked in Range Development Directorate of the AMR (Atlantic Missile Range), Radar Department in 1961 and was tasked to mathematically prove the tracking accuracy of the AN/FPS-16 Radar on board the Twin Falls Victory. The US Army did not operate the ship or have ownership or possession of the ship.

I was assigned as a Meteorological Equipment Technician aboard USAF Twin Falls Victory in January 1962 and later transferred to San Salvador Auxiliary Air Force Base, Bahamas. I was employed by Pan American World Airways in both assignments.

It is all irrelevant considering that the actual ship has been melted down for scrap metal 24 years ago.

Oldsurfr, Florida, 3May2007