Site Summit 1
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At a reunion of Alaska Nike vets it was posable for us to visit Site Summit this was in 2009 before any of the restoration process was done.
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This gives you a prospective on the "lay of the land" at Site Summit.
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This is group that attended the reunion in 2009
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Site Summit IFC area looking up the mountain
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From the IFC area a look back down to the launcher area
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A warhead storage building
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This is the K9 kennel where the guard dogs for the launcher area were kept.
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The guard shack at the entrance to the IFC area
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Interior of the guard shack
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Dave Burdick a vet that served at Site Summit. Dave was one of the men that put up the Christmas Star. It was and still is lite during the Christmas season and can be seen all over from Anchorage.
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People that accompanied the Alaska Vets during our visit, they are taking the photo before of all the vets.
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Being on top of a mountain this was a very windy place, so windy that the Admin/IFC building had these holddowns to anchor the building.
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Some of the wind damage to the TTR tracking tower
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Cable trays leading to the TTR tower
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Rear end of the Admin/IFC building on the first floor would be the PX, Day Room and Mess Hall up stairs rooms for IFC men and a common room for launcher staff, MP'S and other admin staff. IFC guys were 4 to a room. They were separated from the others because they would have to go back to the van room during the night to do system checks while on Hot Status.
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Inside the Admin/IFC building to the right of the man in the red jacket was the mail room on the left the PX. And he is looking towards the day room and mess hall
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Another look at the day room
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Mess Hall with kitchen behind wall
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Looking back to PX beyond that were Supply and offices.
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Almost all of this building was taken down during the restoration cost to referb was way to high somewhat due to the amount of lead paint used.
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Entrance to the IFC Van room and generator room only IFC and Generator operators were allowed through this door due to security issues.
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IFC room the command van would be in this area.
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On the other side would be the tracking van.
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Looking the other way in the van room
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Not sure what was on this pad.
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Stairway leading upstairs. Looks like the "RE-UP" officer had some influence in decorating
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Shot of the road up to the site.
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Guard rail on the site access road. Access to the site was a real problem in the winter. At times a snow plow would run back and forth all the time trying to keep the road open. But the road would get closed and those that lived off site were there till conditions got better.
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Tour group unloading at the launcher area.
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Some of the structures in the Launcher Area.
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Front of one of 2 missile storage buildings.
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The front apron of the Missile Storage Building
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Interior of the Missile Buildings. Most other sites the missiles were underground but due to permafrost above ground storage was used in the Alaska sites.
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Another look inside.
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When the battery was on "Hot Status" launcher guys would stay in the launcher area 24/7. Here is some of the crew's living area.
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More of the crew living area.
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Also more of the crew's living area, food from the Mess Hall would be trucked down to them at meal time.
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Look at some of the electrical panels in the launcher building
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This is the interior of the motor pool building the pile of dirt is the result of some clean-up of toxic stuff.
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Getting his photo taken is Joe Zito who served at Site Summit and also at Site Tare in Fairbanks.
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Look from inside at the mountains around site summit.
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The warhead storage building you saw earlier.
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Inside of the warhead storage building.
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This is inside of the basement area at Site Point which is now Kinkade Park. As the missiles were rolled out on a rail system, cables that connected to them also had to travel in and out. Here is the area under the launch floor where the cables went back and forth.
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Another shot of the tray system.
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Part of the heating system was also in this area.
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A winch used to move the missile on it's launch carriage in and out of the building. When they were fully out of the building some had to be moved by the men sideways to the outside launchers.