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Battalion, Mth Field Artlllety hos betn'lriduc:t*9.lft1"' ~ '
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who, despite physlalt llmltatl!J11S onJ11 a_l!OO" gn11p of .
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Sergeants Moior, then be Interviewed by-Lleutenard

General Frederick Kroesen. 7th Corps ~mond!F,
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SFC GIVfflS Is o 20-yeor veteran fnNft Greenwood. .
Miss. His mreer lflcludeS: ~ monlhl fflvee tocJnl 1n.'
Korea, 23 months In Germany 1 . - .this tour) ond.
four yeon In Vietnam. Among his owords ore: three.
Army Commendation Medal& Cone for the Sergeant
Moroles selection), and flve Bronze Stars. .
Hemme to A-:M<t In February, 1974 from Ft. Som
Houston.Tex.; at o time when- In his words - the A
Btrv commo platoon was "down about n for as you
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Perslti,ig.II awan18lt0:Martiil Marietta

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lnertl~ i1vkf. . ~e obtained during the termolnwith, the equip. ara11 prail,lde o s ignificant 10,. -al descent to 'derive position In
ment aboard Ill" ..ArmY ChlnoaJ( JINMN,lll.1n accuracy. This !IC formation for ~Ing the In h e l ~ for io._.lfude 1'11111 . . . . lmpr'Ovement . wlll pro- ertlol position of the reentry ve- WOS~fully CIDfflPleted In - vfde' lncrmsed innltQry effec. Ncle.
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Pershing II takH full octvon
stolltCI In a wt,. pod en o con- ~tlftawtfs. . __ ._ . . toge of existing equipment bY.
ver'tld F.MII kt aircraft for ~ _
fl rn!Ssfle wntt,e \lflllzlng the present Pershl!XI 1
h i ~ tilgfi-oltltude t~ ~ ijke ffle 1~ on an In- A 'first and secondstoge motors
lechary tests. When ff!ls phase~- ertlolty .,iclad..~l~rv ~
ondgroundequlpment.
completed 81 Or1oniio; ~ point ~ the,reentry vehicle .
Mortin Marietta Aerospace .-,
captive test progtam wut be ~
- ft will 'then pi"Dceec(- prime contractor for the Per
o,ntlnued ot the Army wtin. on
path to the termln- lhlnc, system, ond Goodyear
Sonds Mlssll4t Ronge In New -~ phoet, llllhere. ff1' o"weother Aerospace subc:ontrodor for the
Mealco.

. . rocl!lr fl octlvoted. The radar RADAG guidance equipment.

Pershing II 1s o modular Im- system will c:or,:elote. the returns Ttle Pershing .
Is manprovement to the currently de- from the target area with o pre- aged at Redstone .
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plc,yed Pershing 1-A. Its terml stored refer ~ mQP of the bomo, by Col~
muel C.
nolly guided reentry vehicle wlll oreo. Seve,:al such C!Jrrel~lons Skemp, J,:.

Tile U.S. Army Missile Commond hos awarded Mortln Mori- first

etto Aero$pOCe $22 mllllon In

creased funding for the Pershing
11 missile system. Work on the
contract aintlnues tfle octvonc:e
development program begun
early lost year on the syslem's
radar correlotlon (RADAG> fff.
mlnal guidance system. , The
multl-yeor funding mlls for contlnued development and captive
flight tests of the guidance
equipment and, later, test fir
lngs of prototype ml~lles with
the terminal guidance.
Captive flight testing of the
guidance system Is already In
progress at Mortin Marietta's

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