McNamara further proposed that a SAC variant of the new F-111, to be designated FB-111A, along with improvements in the Air Force Minuteman and Navy Polaris missile systems and modernization of the subsonic Boeing B-52, would enhance strategic deterrence and make the B-58 superfluous to the needs of the USAF.
D37D, a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile flight computer
This medal was designed by celebrated artist Daniel Chester French, who sculpted the statue of a seated Lincoln in Washington's Lincoln Memorial and the "Minuteman" at Concord, Mass.
Hall directed the Weapon System 133A (Minuteman) program until the eve of the missile’s first complete flight test.
He is a multi-engine instrument-rated aviator and survivor of burns over 35% of his body when his single-engine Grumman American AA-5 Tiger was caught in a wind shear during a landing at Minuteman Airfield in 1985.
Jim Gilchrist, American activist and cofounder, along with Chris Simcox, of the The Minuteman Project Inc.
In 1775, Schenck was one of the first residents of Hunterdon County to volunteer to serve as a Minuteman in the months following the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
On January 24, 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress formed a special company of Minuteman in which Captain Nathaniel Wade would be the commander and Lieutenant Hodgkins would be the second in command.
He fought as a Minuteman at the Battle of Bunker Hill and remained active until the end of the war effort.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation (and that of Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley) on June 5, 2008, in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006, followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.
The group was originally composed of young musicians from other associated Minuteman companies in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, who volunteered to conceive a music-performance specific organization.
The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, which included an air corridor that stretches from Minuteman-III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, all the way to the Russian capital city of Moscow.
He is the recipient of the National Geographic Society’s Major General O.A. Anderson Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ National Armed Forces Award, the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, the Navy League’s Admiral John M. Will Award, the Ireland Fund’s Irishman of the Year for Southern California Award, the Reserve Officers Association’s Minuteman Hall of Fame Award, and the Marine Corps Scholarship Fund’s Semper Fidelis Award.
The previous ICBM command and control system, designated Command Data Buffer, required over 20 hours to retarget the entire Minuteman force and 30 minutes to retarget a single ICBM.
The booster would consist of an ordinary Saturn IB with four Minuteman first stages used as strap-on boosters.
The Saturn INT-19 also used SRBs to supplement the power of the S-II, however it used smaller solids, derived from the first stage of the Minuteman missile.
In early 2005, he volunteered in a Minuteman Project Inc. patrol in Arizona, where he met Minuteman leader Jim Gilchrist.