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2nd Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron

Squadron History

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Time Line

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Jan 1961               Assigned to 4238th A&E as GAM Branch    

1 Nov 1962            4238th AMMS activated

1962                      1st Commander: Capt. Robert Gillespie

1 Apr 1963             4238th Deactivated   

1 Apr 1963             2nd AMMS Activated

20 Jul 1975            2nd AMMS Deactivated

Note: The 2nd AMMS had the only double squadron of missiles from 1968-1975.

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2nd AMMS Commanders

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Gillespie, Robert   Capt.
Malone, L.L   Lt. Col.
Luke, Miles K   Lt. Col.
Tulloh, Clifton   Lt. Col.
Rowden, Ted W  Col.

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Courtesy of: Jim Ferstl

1964 - The klaxon had sounded at Barksdale and the flight crew is on the way to lite the birds.
(note the guard dog trying to get at the crew)

A Little Older and a Little Smarter

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Bob Guillory at the National Atomic Museum
in New Mexico. Sep 2000

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1964

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1995

What a few years did to Bob Guillory

 

Your 2nd AMMS Hard at Work

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Robert Kileen and the Training NCO

Production Control

Missile Checkout time.

Robert Kileen and the Training NCO

Production Control

Missile Checkout time.