Interior Radar Bomb Scoring Site

The Interior Radar Bomb Scoring Site (callsign Badlands Bomb Plot) opened in August 1960[1] on Hurley Butte (43.719846°N 102.14294°W / 43.719846; -102.14294), adjacent to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and a few miles from Interior, South Dakota. [2] The Interior RBSS is a Formerly Used Defense Site, that closed in 1968.

History

It replaced the Los Angeles Bomb Plot at Cheli AFS. Operated and maintained by Detachment 2 of the 11th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron, Radar Bomb Scoring Division, 1st Combat Evaluation Group (initially by temporary duty personnel), the RBS site was 1 of ~14 that remained after the 1965-6 deployment of RBS site personnel for Vietnam Combat Skyspot.

Family housing for the detachment was on the western edge of Wall, South Dakota, and barracks initially used for the station were shared by Boeing facility contractors for the Ellsworth Air Force Base 850th Strategic Missile Squadron's HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs.

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).[3]

The Interior Family Housing Site, a "detached installation" of Barksdale Air Force Base provided homes from 26 June 1968 to 30 April 1969.[4] Det 2 moved to the Holbrook Bomb Plot in Arizona in 1968.[5] Concrete pads at Hurley Butte remain from when the RBS equipment and personnel transferred to Holbrook, Arizona (1968-1993) merged w/ Det 19 Poplar MT[2] to move to Det 4 Harrison AR).[6]

References
  1. MacDonald, Ray (January 29, 2002). "1 CEVG/DET 2 History (A fluid Document)". 1CEVGA.com.
    2. "Detachment 2 Holbrook, AZ". 1 CEVG/DET 2 History (A fluid Document). Retrieved 2013-01-20.
  2. "Combat Evaluation Group - A place for CEVG'ers and Range Rats to Meet".    Citations in chronological order:
    • johnd584 (November 26, 2004). "Message 11827". 11th RBS express set up in Rhame ND and Capt Reeves from Bismarck was the commander in summer of 1961 or 62
    • Reyburn, David W (November 29, 2004). "Re: Re: [Combat Evaluation Group] Re: RBS Express". train in Deeth, Nevada in April 1, 1963…train in Igloo, S.D. the middle of August 1963 and was there until we moved the train to Vaughn, N.M. the first of Oct. 1963…Train at Creston, WY the first of April…left for the Train Nov 12, 1964 for Moulton, Iowa…train and moved it to Scott City, KS…Left the train About February 25, 1965… train in Oberlin, LA in the middle of August 1965
    • McAfee, Emerson R. "tbd". train. … Several of us…volunteered to go to Lake City in 1964… And we had all kinds of volunteers for Mayfield, KY
    • Withers, Daniel A (February 17, 2005). "Message 13073". Closing Deeth (literally), we relocated to the New Mexico garden spot of Vaughn.
    • McAfee, Emerson R (August 6, 2005). "Re: Greetings!". I was at Det. 8 Richmond from Jun 63-Apr 72. I also made trips to Browns IL but we were the ones who moved it from Mauk GA to Browns so I was only at Browns for about a week
    • Hirsch, Ken (August 6, 2005). "Message tbd". I was stationed at Detachment 3, Statesboro, GA from Oct. 1963 - Sept. 1966. Tours on the RBS Express were at…Browns, IL; Jonesboro, AR; Train on display in Philadelphia, PA; Mount Pleasant, TN and Port Henry, NY (2 tours - I liked it up there!).
    • Avery, Jim (August 8, 2005). "Message 15844". We actually moved the train from Lake City, SC to Browns, IL. (The train moved from Mauk, GA to Thoreau, NM)."
    • Ross, Don (August 30, 2007). "Sqdns, Det 4 and Germany" (Yahoo newsgroup). Retrieved 2012-07-09. three RBS Express trains. One per sqdn
    • Skinner, Don (July 31, 2010). "Memories/1CEG". Retrieved 2012-09-24. I spent the first 3 months of 1964 on RBS Express at Thoreau, NM as maintenance man
  3. 2012 Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS): Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land (PDF) (Map). Cartography by Geography Division. United States Census Bureau. October 22, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.
  4. Mueller (1982), Air Force Bases, p. 18
  5. ""Holbrook Air Force Station" OR "Holbrook Bomb Plot" - Google Search".
  6. "Detachment 2 Holbrook, AZ" (history anecdote). 1CEVGA.com. 2007. Retrieved 2013-01-20.


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