Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Shelters and Bunkers Scoping Survey Report

Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Shelters and Bunkers Scoping Survey Report
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Total Pages: 1203
Release: 2009
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The Weapons Safety Division, Headquarters, Air Force Safety Center (HQAFSC/SEW) and Radiation Health Branch, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM/OEHH) performed radiological scoping surveys on Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) site structures. Work coincided with oversight responsibilities during final status surveys and spot remediation under contract to Cabrera Services, and later remedial actions in pits and bunkers. In general, survey findings were comparative to survey measurements of shelter interiors performed during the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study in 1990. Based on reasonable future uses of the shelters, residual contamination levels are well below criterion recommended in the scoping survey workplan in support of ongoing site activities, or demolition of concrete and re-use. In addition, an evaluation of residual contamination to the 15 mrem in a year criterion for unrestricted use specified in New Jersey Administrative Code (NJAC) 4:28 was accomplished, though this code is not applicable to the site while under DoD control. Structure met the criterion of the code.

Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Shelters and Bunkers Scoping Survey Workplan

Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Shelters and Bunkers Scoping Survey Workplan
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Total Pages: 70
Release: 2007
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The Weapons Safety Division of Headquarters, Air Force Safety Center (HQAFSC/SEW) and Radiation Surveillance Division, Air Force Institute for Operational Health (AFIOH/SDR jointly agreed to perform radiological scoping surveys of select structures on the Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) site. The work coincides with on-site oversight responsibilities of the two organizations during final status surveys and spot remediation under contract to Cabrera Services. The report details the strategy for conducting scoping surveys. In addition the report provides a comprehensive review of the risk analysis that was accomplished in the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility, that formed the basis for the Record of Decision (ROD). In particular, the discrete particle intake paradigm was discussed and other issues that raised recent concerns on the applicability of the risk analysis accomplished in the ROD. Criteria for acceptable surface contamination levels for shelter interiors were proposed. One for continued intermittent use with institutional controls inplace and the other under a shelter demolition/on-site burial assumption.

To Defend and Deter

To Defend and Deter
Author: John C. Lonnquest
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-17
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ISBN: 9780976149453

The Department of Defense's official history of the United States Cold War missile program--completely reformatted with all-new color illustrations and photographs not used in the original edition. The DoD commissioned this study as part of its Cold War Project in 1996. With permission from the DoD's Legacy Program, Hole in the Head Press brings To Defend and Deter back into print. This informative guide offers a thorough look at Cold War missile development, from the earliest beginnings of rocketry in the 13th century to the arms control agreements that began in the 1970s. Both a narrative history and reference guide, To Defend and Deter traces the evolution of the Cold War and establishes the United States missile program's scope and its massive impact on the American landscape, citizens, and structure of the U.S. military establishment.

ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition]

ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition]
Author: Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786253712

Includes over 90 illustrations ‘Dr Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more important, to the defense of our nation’s freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Doctor Werrell’s study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten, as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence. The unhappy outcome of those two conflicts were doubly lamentable because the lessons of World War II were—or should have been—fresh in our minds. In that world war, as Doctor Werrell shows, relatively cheap ground-based air defense did make a difference: at Ploesti, at Antwerp, and at the Rhine bridges.

Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency

Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency
Author: Shannon Caudill
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2014-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781782666851

This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Archie to Sam

Archie to Sam
Author: Kenneth R. Werrell
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Total Pages: 310
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781780399751

Archie to SAM is an update to Kenneth Werrell's Archie, Flak, AAA, and SAM published in 1988. He continues to study ground-based air defense systems in new events, including the Gulf War. In rescuing ground-based air defense systems from long neglect, Werrell delves into such topics as tactics, leadership, change, and innovation

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Author: Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521837197

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.