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UH-60s serving the Army for 40 years

U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY DREW HAMILTON

Soldiers practice setting up cover while the remaining aircraft depart Space Harbor during an exercise in 2017. The event saw more than 25 UH-60 helicopters take part in the air assault, a mission that required extensive coordination and planning.

By Adriana Salas de SantiagoStaff Writer

The month of October marks the 40th anniver-sary of the delivery of the first Black Hawk helicop-ter to the U.S. Army. Here at White Sands Missile Range the Black Hawk UH-60 was only recently introduced in Decem-

ber of 2015. Prior to the UH-60, the UH-1 Huey was the main source of Army Air transportation at WSMR. The UH-1 was soon retired after the UH-60s arrival. The last flight for the UH-1 took place in December of 2016. WSMR was set to receive six. Currently WSMR has three UH-60As and three UH-60L models.

“The Black Hawk may be 40 years old but the platform has many years to go as a world-class multi-role utility heli-copter,” said WSMR Test Center Commander and UH-6O Maintenance Test Pilot Col. Dave Cheney.

Jessy Eismann and Ryan Nowaczck are UH-60 pilots here at WSMR’s

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White Sands Missile Range Army Community Service hosted its first biannual Volunteer Appreciation event, Oct. 24. U. S. Army Garrison White Sands Missile Range Commander Col. Christopher Ward, left, personally thanked the volunteers and potential volunteers during the event and talked about the importance of volunteering, especially in a small installation like WSMR. Several organizations on post were available to talk about volunteer opportunities on the range.

U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY ADRIANA SALAS DE SANTIAGO

WSMR conducts wide full scale exercise

U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY JOSE SALAZAR

White Sands Missile Range firefighters respond to an accident victim during an installation-wide Full Scale Exercise Oct. 17 that tested WSMR’s response during a contamination exercise.

Biannual volunteer appreciation

WSMR Public Affairs

White Sands Missile Range conducted an in-stallation-wide Full Scale Exercise Oct. 17 that tested WSMR’s response during a contamination scenario.

The Directorate of Emegency Services exer-cised its response proce-dures during the day long event on post that involved several organizations.

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WSMR Commander ............................................... Brig. Gen. Greg BradyChief of Public Affairs ......................................................... Robert CarverEditor ........................................................................ Miriam U. RodriguezStaff Writer ........................................................Adriana Salas de SantiagoStaff Writer ........................................................................ Charles Roberts

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The Army joins the Air Force, Navy in attempt to develop hypersonic weaponryBy Joe LactanArmy News Service

WASHINGTON - Sim-ilar to precision weapons being developed by the Air Force and Navy, the Army is developing its own unique hypersonic weapon.

Col. John Rafferty, di-rector of the Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Team, dis-cussed the development of these new long-range precision weapons at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition, Oct. 9.

Rafferty said the ser-vices are collaborating on creating a common “hy-personic glide body,” to provide a means for each service to deploy their hypersonic weaponry. He said the services will work alongside each other to develop the hypersonic weapons capability.

“We’re going to sup-port the Space and Mis-sile Defense Command’s pursuit of the long-range hypersonic weapon and we’ll help by developing the operational concept,” Rafferty said. “But es-sentially what we’re go-ing to do is make sure that Soldiers are trained and ready to man the system when fielded, and that a mission-command structure and fire-control framework is in place.

“In order to achieve the disintegration and pene-tration effect we need to have a mix of weapons, and exquisite, very ex-pensive, hypersonic mis-siles with tremendous kinetic effect are well-suited for strategic infra-structure and hardened targets,” he said.

Hypersonic weapons move five times faster than the speed of sound and are designed to po-tentially deliver a preci-sion-guided airstrike any-where in the world within an hour.

Rafferty said the hy-personic program office

is currently being estab-lished and eventually a major general will be se-lected as program man-ager.

In the quest to main-tain overmatch against America’s enemies, bil-lions have been invested into the LRPF capability.

Development of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery continues as the weapon will eventu-ally replace the M109A6/A7. The weapon will fea-ture a longer gun tube, a redesigned chamber, and a breech capable of sur-viving increased pres-sures that will propel the

rounds up to 70 kilome-ters away. The precision strike missile, which will strike targets out to 499 kilometers (within the Intermediate-Range Nu-clear Forces Treaty limit), is expected to be deliv-ered in late 2022 or early 2023, he said.

These weapons will help offset the standoff capabilities of potential adversaries Russia and China. Rafferty equated his team’s work as fun-damental to the success of multi-domain opera-tions in accordance with the 2018 National Defense Strategy.

“What we’re charged to do is to establish over-match at echelon that will enable us to realize multi domain operations by knocking out the sys-tems that are designed to create standoff --- to sep-arate us,” Rafferty said. “So the long-range fires are the key to reducing the enemies’ capability to separate our formations.”

The pressures of shoul-dering the Army’s No. 1 modernization prior-ity has not overwhelmed Rafferty since taking over the LRPF CFT.

Rafferty said he wel-comes the pressure of

leading the CFT, a com-ponent of Army Futures Command.

“The celebration of being the No. 1 priority ends pretty quickly when you’re sobered by the fact that now we need to de-liver,” said Rafferty, who took over the director po-sition from Brig. Gen. Stephen Maranian this past spring. “Our nation has already invested a lot in this effort.”

Rafferty said he can lean on a military intelli-gence officer assigned to the LRPF CFT and a war-rant officer who will serve as a targeting officer.

“For the first time . I really feel like our intelli-gence community beyond the Army intelligence is meeting us halfway at this,” Rafferty said. “And they are reaching out to us on ways that they can de-liver targeting informa-tion much more quickly and without any interven-tion points.”

LRPF is the first of the Army’s six moderniza-tion priorities, the oth-ers being next generation combat vehicles, future vertical lift, the network, air and missile defense, and Soldier lethality.

Maranian now serves as the deputy command-ing general of the 2nd In-fantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army in South Ko-rea.

U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO

The Army plans to develop a hypersonic glide vehicle similar to the Air Force’s X-51A Waverider, shown here mounted under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress a few years ago at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. On a previous flight, the X-51A flew for more than three minutes at Mach 4.88 under scramjet power.


Army Air, located at Holloman Air Force Base. Both have been flying the versatile air-craft for nearly 17 years. Cheney was commis-sioned in the Aviation branch in 1993. Cheney also served as the test offi-cer for the latest version of the UH-60, the UH-60M, or “Mike” model. He par-ticipated in a Limited User Test for the new model.

“The UH-60 series of utility helicopters rep-resents one of the larg-est and most successful aircraft platforms in the Department of Defense,” Cheney said.

He said all military ser-vices operate UH-60s in various roles and mis-sions, to include: head of state transportation, an-ti-submarine, vertical re-placement, downed air-crew recovery, and med-ical evacuations which he said is arguably the most significant contribution to survivability on the mod-ern battlefield.

“The fleet size alone in-dicates how important the Black Hawk is with over 2,100 in the U.S. Army alone, about another thou-sand UH-60 derivative aircraft in the other ser-vices, and a foreign mil-itary sales fleet in over 30 countries operating an-other thousand aircraft,” Cheney said.

The mission for Eis-mann and Nowacsck is a little different and unique to WSMR, much like ev-erything else. Their job requires supporting the Test Center and contrac-tors with any mission re-

quirements to include missile or drone recov-ery or photography. They also provide VIP trans-port during tours.

“We support Army, NASA and contract ae-rial photography. We have done wildlife herd counts and surveys out on the national monument,” Nowacsck said.

They have even pro-vided assistance with dropping parachutists during Bataan Memorial Death March opening cer-emony events.

“It’s super capable if you know how to fly it, it will give you exactly what you need. I love that it’s multi-purpose. It can carry patients and sling vehicle cargo. I’ve slung parts and pieces of slashed aircrafts. It’s super versa-tile. Its ruggedness and ca-pability are all things that attracted me to it,” Eis-mann said.

The UH-60M has the capability of program-ming routes for the pilots and can self-maneuver. It has four multi-function display screens, a control-ler that allows pilots to de-sign flight routes while in flight and integrated con-trols. The UH-60M en-tered production in 2007 and saw its first combat deployment in 2010. The UH-60M will gradually replace the older models within the Army.

“The technologies in-cluded in the latest ver-sions facilitate high-risk missions that could not be conceived of 40 years ago when the Black Hawk first entered service,” Cheney said.

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Desert bighorn sheep relocated

WSMR Public Affairs

White Sands Missile Range with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish conducted a capture operation of desert big-horn sheep and relocated them to the Sacramento Mountains and Lincoln National Forest outside of Alamogordo to reestab-lish a population there.

Using a specialized helicopter capture team, dozens of desert big-horn sheep, once en-dangered in the state of New Mexico, were cap-tured, evaluated, docu-mented, and transported across the Tularosa Basin to the neighboring Sac-ramento Mountains. The sheep were reintroduced to WSMR in the early 2000’s in an attempt to rebuild the species pres-ence in the state. The pro-gram worked so well that WSMR now has a pop-ulation of around 300 sheep, enough that some sheep can be transferred

elsewhere in the state to rebuild populations there.

“We’re able to capture and remove sheep be-cause the population has recovered,” said Patrick Morrow, a biologist with the White Sands Missile Range Garrison Environ-mental Office. “They are off the state endangered species list, mostly from the efforts of New Mex-ico Game and Fish, and now our population is es-timated between 280 and 300 sheep.”

Maintaining healthy populations of bighorn sheep is an important ef-fort for the state of New Mexico, as the sheep rep-resent not only an um-brella species in the de-sert ecosystem, but also an important game an-imal, with hunting li-censes for desert big-horn sheep often selling for hundreds of thou-sands of dollars, which the state can then use to fund conservation efforts like this.

“It’s really the hunt-er-conservationist that has ponied up the money that allows these pro-grams to exist,” said Dr. Eric Rominger, a bighorn sheep biologist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

The capture and relo-cation effort represents months of planning be-tween state and federal agencies, as well as co-ordination with the Army so as not to disrupt mili-tary testing.

“We understand the Army’s mission takes precedence on this mis-sile range, but we’re will-ing to work on the week-ends when they don’t have missions and we fly our helicopter surveys on the weekend when they don’t have those missions going,” Rominger said. “The Army has been an extremely good coopera-tor through the course of the Sand Andres desert bighorn sheep program.”

Desert bighorn sheep

once thrived in the state, but were nearly wiped out by disease and hunt-ing into the early 1900’s. WSMR, as a secured military test range and host to a wildlife refuge, made for the perfect loca-tion to rebuild the popu-lation, as poaching would be nearly nonexistent and the range’s 2.2 million acres includes miles of habitat area for the sheep.

“You’re looking at nearly 80 miles of big-horn sheep habitat and we think it could hold many, many more sheep,” Rominger said.

The capture operation took two days, Oct. 27 and 28, and saw the cap-ture and relocation of 18 ewes and 15 rams.

The sheep, now out-fitted with tags and GPS and radio tracking col-lars, will be monitored in their new home outside of Alamogordo to see if the population there estab-lishes and thrives as ex-pected.

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Workforce Profes-sional DevelopmentThe following Work-

force Professional Devel-opment seminars will be presented:

Nov. 14 – Social Se-

curity presented by Tom Chaney and Ernie Sichler 9 to 11 a.m. at Building 21080, Room 134

Dec. 12 – Surviving the Holiday Season presented by SMILE 9 to 11 a.m. at Building 21080, Room 134

Office Management Assistants Training

ScheduleNov. 7 – Protocol Do’s

and Don’ts presented by Cindy Cook 9 to 11 a.m. at Building 21080.

Dec. 5 – Individual Development Plans pre-sented by Jessica Maitland and Melissa Perez 9 to 11 a.m. Bldg. 21080.


Patrick Morrow, a biologist with the WSMR Garrison Environmental Office, center, works with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish staff on a desert bighorn sheep.

Public Notice White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to New Mexico Hazardous Waste Regulations promulgated in the New Mexico Administrative Code, a petition for a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Class 3 Permit Modification for the White Sands Missile Range (the Permittee) is being submitted to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), Hazardous Waste Bureau.

The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Garrison White Sands, 100 Headquarters Avenue, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 88002-5000, is submitting a petition requesting a Class 3 Permit Modification to change the status of Solid Waste Management Unit (SWMU) 116, Rhodes Subgrade Asphalt Tanks, from Corrective Action Required to Corrective Action Complete without Controls.

A 60-day comment period will begin November 14, 2018, and end January 14, 2019. During the 60-day comment period, any interested person may submit comments to John E. Kieling, Bureau Chief, NMED, Hazardous Waste Bureau, 2905 Rodeo Park Drive East, Building 1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505-6303, phone (505) 476-6000.

A public meeting will be held November 28, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library located at 200 E. Picacho Avenue, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88001. Phone: (575) 528-4000. A copy of the petition may be viewed at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; and 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.

Interested persons may obtain additional information from the Permittee’s contact person Benito Avalos, White Sands Missile Range, (575) 678-2225, and/or from the NMED’s contact person John E. Kieling, NMED, (505) 476-6000.

The Permittee’s compliance history during the life of the Permit being modified is available from the NMED contact person. Contact information is provided above.


The sheep had to be captured by helicopter, and flown out of the mountains before being transferred to trailers and moved.


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24/7 Hotline575-993-0589

WSMR conducts wide full scale exercise


White Sands Missile Range emergency responsders practice proper procedures during an installation-wide Full Scale Exercise Oct. 17.


Members of the White Cell make sure White Sands Missile Range emergency responders use proper procedures during an installation-wide Full Scale Exercise Oct. 17.


White Sands Missile Range emergency responsders go over procedures as inspectors watch during an installation-wide Full Scale Exercise Oct. 17.


TURKEY DRIVENovember 7th 0900-1400

ACS BUILDING AND PARKING LOT

Event POC Kirt Davis at 678-1957 Contact ACS to RSVP at 678-6767 Email: [email protected] Email [email protected] 465 Dyer Street, Rm 128 ACS 250 Rock Island Avenue

The 5 people with the BEST times win

a FREE Turkey!This is ANOTHER opportunity to get credit for ASAP training for FY19.

Bring non-perishable food items (for the

Holiday Helping Hands Program). Light Lunch

will be available.

Training starts at 0900, lunch

served at 1100

COME RECEIVE TRAINING AND

TEST YOUR SKILLS ON ASAP’S BRAND

NEW PEDDLE KARTS.

Domestic violence prevention walk

U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY MIRIAM U. RODRIGUEZ

The White Sands Missile Range community came out to Bell Gym Oct. 12 to participate in the Walk-a-Mile in their shoes event to take steps to end Domestic Violence.Parents and their children walked several laps inside Bell Gym in heels, boots and slippers.After walking participants enjoyed pizza and free stuff.

Las Cruces Chamber golf tournament

U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY CAMMY MONTOYA

White Sands Missile Range Commander Brig. Gen. Gregory Brady, second from right, and Command Sgt. Maj. William Wofford, second from left, join golfers from the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce at the Sonoma Ranch Golf Course Oct. 19 for the annual golf tournament. Las Cruces took home the travelling trophy this year.


Community Calendar submissions are compiled by the Public Affairs Office. Any WSMR organization wishing to publicize an event on this calendar should submit information to [email protected].

Frequently Called Numbers

Aquatic Center 678-1068

Army Community

Service 678-6767

Arts and Crafts Center 678-5321

Auto Crafts Center 678-5800

Bell Gym 678-3374

Bowling Center 678-3465

CDS 678-2059

Community Center 678-4134

Commissary 678-2313

Frontier Club 678-2055

Library 678-5820

McAfee Army Health Clinic

674-3500

Museum 678-2250

Post Chapel 678-2615

Post Office 541-7429

Outdoor Recreation 678-1713

White Sands Schools 674-1241

Youth Services/SAS 678-4140

IHG Army Hotel, WSMR678-1838/4559

Frontier Club Lunch Specials November

Community Calendar

Monday, Nov. 5Frontier Club - Ginger pepper beef

Tuesday, Nov. 6Frontier Club - Taco Tuesday

Wednesday, Nov. 7Frontier Club - Lasagna

Thursday, Nov. 8Frontier Club - Swedish meatballs

Friday, Nov. 9Frontier Club - Specials from the Grill

Monday, Nov. 12Frontier Club - Closed for Veterans Day Holiday

Tuesday, Nov. 13Frontier Club - Green chile enchilada

Wednesday, Nov. 14Frontier Club - Pork madeira

Thursday, Nov. 15Frontier Club - Green chile meatloaf

Friday, Nov. 16Frontier Club - Nachos

Monday, Nov. 19Frontier Club - Teriyaki chicken

Tuesday, Nov. 20Frontier Club - Fajitas de pollo

Wednesday, Nov. 21Frontier Club - Spaghetti and meatballs

Thursday, Nov. 22Frontier Club - Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

Friday, Nov. 23Frontier Club - Closed for Black Friday

Closed Saturday and Sunday

- Nov. 4 - Daylight Savings Ends: Fall back one hour- Nov. 10 - World Neuroendrocrine Cancer Day- Nov. 12 - Veterans Day Holiday- Nov. 22 - Thanksgiving Holiday

White Sands Missile Range POST THEATER

November 2018

Make sure to visit the Post Theater Snack Bar for your , Soda, and Candy Needs!!!* *Provided by

Friday 11/02/18, 1900—BlaKkKlansman (R)

Saturday 11/03/18, 1800—Mission Impossible: Fallout (PG- 13)

Sunday 11/04/18, 1600—Christopher Robin (PG)

Friday 11/09/18, 1900—Mile 22 (R)

Saturday 11/10/18, 1800—The Meg (PG-13)

Sunday 11/11/18, 1600—Smurfs: The Lost Village (G)

Monday 11/12/18 VETERANS DAY SPECIAL BACK TO BACK

17:00 -Flags of our Fathers /19:00 -12 Strong

Friday 11/16/18, 1900—Happytime Murders (R)

Saturday 11/17/18, 1800—Crazy, Rich, Asians (PG-13)

Sunday 11/18/18, 1600—Labyrinth (PG)

Friday 11/23/18, 1900—Sorry To Bother You (R)

Saturday 11/24/18, 1800—Alpha (PG-13)

Sunday 11/25/18, 1600— Beauty and the Beast (2017) (PG)

“R” Rated Policy: Everyone under the age of 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian or the parent needs to physically provide verbal approval

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