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Flying Training Scenic Badlands Bombing Range; 15AF Supplement 8 to: SACR 51-1

1962Best.-Nr. 88341March Air Force Base CA: United States Air Force Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force 1962. Presumed to be one of only a few multiple copies produced for distribution. Four sheets with printing on one side only. Good. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches with three holes punched in the left side and stapled together at the left side. This document contains 4 sheets/eight pages with text or illustrations printed on the first seven sides only. This typed/mimeographed document ON PINK PAPER shows slight wear and soiling. This supplement supersedes SACR 51-1/15AF Sup 8 12 January 1960. The purpose of this supplement was to provide a source of information for the description and location s of Scenic Badlands Bombing Range R-6102 and to establish policies for its use. The 11th Radar Bomb Scoring squadron was responsible for controlling aircraft using the range. The commander 28th Combat Support Group Ellsworth Air Force Base South Dakota was response for the maintenance of bombing targets and reflector city range facilities. There is discussion of targets patterns to be flown range control and special safety procedures. During the Cold War 15 AF was one of three Numbered Air Forces of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command SAC commanding USAF strategic bombers and missiles on a global scale. Elements of 15th Air Force engaged in combat operations during the Korean War the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. The Badlands Bombing Range BBR refers to Rapid City Army Air Base target ranges for World War II which included the current Air Force Retained Area an inactive 2486-acre United States Air Force site "20 miles southeast" of Scenic South Dakota. The retained area is the remainder of 341726 acres federally acquired in 1942 under eminent domain at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Oglala Sioux. In addition to use by World War II aircraft BBR was used for a post-war Army National Guard gunnery range and a Cold War Radar Bomb Scoring site. The Interior Radar Bomb Scoring Site callsign Badlands Bomb Plot opened in August 1960 on Hurley Butte 43.719846°N 102.14294°W adjacent to the Pine Ridge Reservation and a few miles from Interior South Dakota to replace the Los Angeles Bomb Plot at Cheli AFS. Operated and maintained by Detachment 2 of the 11th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron the RBS site was 1 of ~14 that remained after the 1965-6 deployment of RBS site personnel for Vietnam Combat Skyspot. At the end of the Cold War numerous nearby radar sites for RBS and electronic warfare simulation included those at the Alzada 2 sites Ekalaka & Hulett Mini-Mutes Radar Sites the Clark & Colony Radar Bomb Scoring Sites and the "Ellsworth Air Force Base" sites Belle Fourche Colmer & Horman Radar Bomb Scoring Sites and the Antelope Butte Mini Mute Radar Bomb Scoring Site. United States Air Force Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force unknown

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