LC-31 was built next to Navaho complex LC-9, requiring LC-10 to be demolished.
In July 1956 he was assigned to Headquarters Air Research and Development Command with duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he served as project officer in the SM-64A Navaho and TM-61-76 Matador/Mace weapon systems project offices.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 10, a launch pad used by SM-64 Navaho missiles and Jason and Draco sounding rockets