Sembach Missileers http://www.sembachmissileers.org 38th TAC Missile Wing Missileers stationed at Sembach AB, Germany 1959-1966 Wed, 09 May 2012 21:22:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Recollections of a Sembach Matador Missileer http://www.sembachmissileers.org/2012/05/recollections-of-a-sembach-matador-missileer/ http://www.sembachmissileers.org/2012/05/recollections-of-a-sembach-matador-missileer/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:22:45 +0000 Russ http://www.sembachmissileers.org/?p=6782 May 9, 2012

Submitted by Jim Gale Sembach AB – June 1956 through June 1959 11th TMS – 587th Support Squadron (armament section)

When I went to Sembach in June of 1956 I was an A/2C. I was making 97 dollars a month whether I needed it or not.  We did have a lot

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Sembach Air Bases’s former Mace Missile Site II in Enkenbach will soon become a solar energy ‘farm’. The land is currently being cleared, after many years of over-growth and neglect.

A private investor, with public funding assistance, plans to build a photovoltaic power station (also known as a solar ‘farm’ or solar

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From: Ed Albert Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 To: Russ Reston Subject: Sembach Air Base veterans reunion

Dear Russ,

As you know, the Sembach Veterans Organization is organizing a mini-reunion for September 2012 to visit Sembach Kaserne (the former Sembach Air Base) in Germany. We expect some of your members who served at Sembach

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Russ, by only having been involved with the Mace during the RFML (Rapid Fire Multiple Launch), you definitely missed out on a lot of the fun we had with the initial mobile, one-crew, one-missile concept!

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I went to Sembach with the 11th TMS after tech school at Lowry AFB for Nuclear Weapons 46350. I was in the armament section of the 587th support squadron.

If you will permit me I’ll just touch on a few things from my era since they constituted the foundation of what

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Vision 2025: USACE, Sembach develop net-zero energy master plan

SEMBACH, Germany — Representatives from Sembach Kaserne, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District and Parsons architecture and engineering firm met earlier this month to kick off an energy-based master planning process aimed at achieving net zero energy installation status by 2025.

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HEIDELBERG, Germany — A $7.1 million voice and data infrastructure project to upgrade communication capabilities began recently at Sembach Kaserne.

In early November, Denise Miller, deputy to the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern commander, took part in project’s groundbreaking ceremony. The upgrade should be complete by

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November 16, 2011

Sembach residents to see increase in services

by Dijon Rolle U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg Public Affairs

It’s the newest “gem” in U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s crown of Army installations. Last October, Installation Management Command officially acquired Sembah Kaserne, formerly known as Sembach Annex, from the U.S. Air Force,

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Bob, thanks for sharing the photo!

Russ

From: Robert Bolton Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 To: Russ Reston Subject: Jost Brewery Picture From 1900

Russ,

Friday for our 45th Wedding anniversary, one of the things Ingrid gave me was an old, out of print book, on Grünstadt, Germany.

One of the pictures

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