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John Sabato · 04-07-2008, 10:27 AM

Zeke knows, but most of you may not know that as my last assignment on active duty before I retired from the Army, I served as the communications chief for a Nike-Hercules unit in northern Italy in 1986-1988.

Those weapons certainly had a long service life... being used by Nato allies well into the 80's and possibly early '90s... and were maintained to be as serviceable as they were on day one right up until they time they were taken out of service.

With the last version of the "warhead" they were still a formidable deterent to a sky full of enemy planes... thankfully we never had to fire one with that warhead ...

04-07-2008, 10:27 AM	#7
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,156 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,308 Times in 1,098 Posts	Zeke knows, but most of you may not know that as my last assignment on active duty before I retired from the Army, I served as the communications chief for a Nike-Hercules unit in northern Italy in 1986-1988. Those weapons certainly had a long service life... being used by Nato allies well into the 80's and possibly early '90s... and were maintained to be as serviceable as they were on day one right up until they time they were taken out of service. With the last version of the "warhead" they were still a formidable deterent to a sky full of enemy planes... thankfully we never had to fire one with that warhead ... __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*