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Walnut Ridge Air Force Station

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radar set at the station. Initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.
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With its closure, Walnut Ridge was determined to be excess by the military and turned over to the local government for civil use. Today, the Air Force radar site is part of the civil airport (formerly
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A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, by Lloyd H. Cornett and Mildred W. Johnson, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
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Winkler, David F. (1997), Searching the skies: the legacy of the United States Cold War defense radar program. Prepared for United States Air Force Headquarters Air Combat Command.
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replaced the AN/FPS-4 height-finder radar that had been installed a year earlier, and a second AN/FPS-6 was added subsequently. During 1962 Walnut Ridge AFS joined the
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Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
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Mobile Radar program. The Air Force approved this expansion of the Mobile Radar program on 23 October 1952. Radars in this network were designated "SM."
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In March 1963 the Air Force ordered this site to close. Operations ceased on 1 August 1963 and the 725th Radar Squadron was inactivated.
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General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north-northeast of
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in 1956, designating it Walnut Ridge Air Force Station, and designating it as
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Walnut Ridge Air Force Station was initially part of Phase II of the
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725th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, activated at
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Redesignated 725th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 May 1962
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Walnut Ridge AFS is located in Arkansas
36°07′48″N 090°55′09″W / 36.13000°N 90.91917°W / 36.13000; -90.91917 (Walnut Ridge AFS SM-143)
United States Air Force
United States Air Force
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Air Defense Command
United States Air Force
Air Defense Command
Walnut Ridge Regional Airport
Tinker AFB
AN/MPS-11
AN/FPS-6
Semi Automatic Ground Environment
Truax Field
725th Radar Squadron
Marine Corps Air Facility Walnut Ridge
Southwest Airlines

Tinker AFB
33d Air Division
20th Air Division
Kansas City Air Defense Sector

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