Holbrook Radar Bomb Scoring Site (call sign tbd Bomb Plot) is a Formerly Used Defense Site of 8 acres (3.2 ha)[1] near Winslow, Arizona, that was used as a Cold War Strategic Air Command radar station for the Holbrook Radar Bomb Scoring Range. Detachment 2 of the Radar Bomb Scoring Division transferred its personnel and equipment from the South Dakota Interior Radar Bomb Scoring Site (call sign Badlands Bomb Plot) on tbd. The site had a housing area, and after the division became the 1st Electronic Combat Range Group (1ECRG), in August 1989 the detachment and site transferred from the 1ECRG to the 99th Strategic Weapons Wing.[2]
"The last ECM-only sortie" scored by the site was c. September 30, 1993 by a C-130 Hercules from Hurlburt Field,[3] and Holbrook's detachment merged with Detachment 19 from the Poplar, Montana, site[citation needed] to become Detachment 4 at Harrison, Arkansas.[4] In 1993, "part of Holbrook Radar Bomb Scoring Site [was] conveyed to the National Park Service"[5] (Petrified Forest National Park).
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- ↑ "Commander in Chief's Special Recognition for Installation Excellence". November 20, 1992. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc27521/m1/60/.
- ↑ Dragoner, O.W.. "United States Air Force 1989" (in GermanANMERKUNG: Im August 1989 umbenannt in 1st Electronic Combat Range Group und dem neu formierten 99 th Strategic Weapons Wing unterstellt. ... Caribbean Basin Radar Network / CBRN ... OTH-B...Transmitter Site: Moscow AFS (Maine)...Receiver Site: Columbia Falls AFS (Maine)). http://www.relikte.com/_basis/docs/usaf-1.pdf.
- ↑ MacDonald, Ray (January 29, 2002). "Detachment 2 Holbrook, AZ". 1 CEVG/DET 2 History (A fluid Document). 1CEVGA.com. http://1cevga.com/det2.htm. 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 Hurlburt Field flew the last ECM mission. The period of time between October 1, 1993 and Christmas was used for decommissioning the systems""
- ↑ MacDonald, Ray (January 29, 2002). "Detachment 2 Holbrook, AZ". 1 CEVG/DET 2 History (A fluid Document). 1CEVGA.com. http://1cevga.com/det2.htm. Retrieved 2013-01-20. ""Except for the MPS-T1 all the systems from Holbrook, including the UHF radios and radio tower were shipped to Harrison, AR"
- ↑ "Summary of the Public Laws of the 103rd Congress" (DOC). http://www.nps.gov/legal/PLSummaries/Summary%20of%20103rd%20acts.doc. "H. R. 2403 October 28, 1993 SEC. 532 - Real property that is part of Holbrook Radar Bomb Scoring Site, Arizona, shall be conveyed to the National Park Service by the General Services Administration when determined as excess by the Air Force."
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