When the countdown nears blastoff, the huge missile is set upright on its trailer. Eyes are concentrated on the launch site, located on the sharp bluff of the mesa. When the site is prepared for a shoot, an excitement starts to build. The 2nd-44th has nearly a dozen Pershing firings yet to support at Black Mesa this fall before it returns to Ft. Army Pershing battalions stationed in Europe, as well as the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Germany. They provide maintenance and all other support necessary for firing exercises of the giant Pershings by firing batteries of the 2nd-44th and other U. Sill's 2nd Battalion, 44th Artillery -the only Pershing battalion in the continental United States - are running the support facility at Black Mesa. Black Mesa is the Army's Pershing missile test-fire site. The dust gives the whole area an ash-rose hue that, together with an expanse of clear blue sky and snow-topped Colorado mountains in the hazy distance, makes the mesa look like a landscape painting by Frederic Remington. It settles on everything: men and equipment, corrugated tin huts, scrub cedar trees and tumbleweed. SP5 Harry Anderson BLACK MESA MISSILE SITE, Utah - There is a sandy orange dust carried along by the constant wind that blows at Black Mesa, Utah. ARMY PHOTO) (Editor's note The following article is reprinted from a recent issue of The Cannoneer, post newspaper of Ft. Sill, Okla., unit that supports off-range Pershing missile firings - 2nd Battalion, 44th Artillery, 9th Field Artillery (Missile) Group. One of the metal buildings is in the left background. Beautiful territory' 16, 1970 Black Mesa: it's wind, cfusf, mountains and missiles BLACK MESA INTERSECTION-Street signs at an intersection near battaUon headquarters at Black Mesa, Utah.
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