The White Falcon - 01.08.1969, Page 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
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Rockville’s 932nd . . .
Home of the Professionals!
The 932nd Airborne Control and
Warning Squadron (AC&W), which
was built for the Air Force in 1953,
is the Master Direction Center
Warning Operational Control of the
57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
(FIS) and the 667th AC&W Squadron.
Approximately 140 men are sta-
tioned at the Rockville site to carry
out its mission as directed by the
Commander of Air Forces Iceland
to: “Defend Iceland against air
attack by directing the Air Defense
Operations of all forces made avail-
able for this purpose, and conduct
sustained air defense surveillance
and aircraft control operations to
the limit of radar capabilities.”
By directing the F-102’s of the
57th FIS to the point of intercept,
the men at Rockville accomplish
their mission of identifying poten-
tially hostile aircraft flying over
the North Atlantic.
When the surveillance radar techni-
cian on duty in the operations room
sees an IP (initial penetration of
our radar) appear on his scope, he
The operations room, above, is the pulse of the
932nd. There, Sgt. Blaise Baldissard, left,
plots the position of an IP as Sgt. Preston Wal-
lace, below, gives him the coordinates from his
surveillance scope. Then Sgt. Richard Clark,
in the lower left of the above photo, has two
minutes to identify the new unknown aircraft.