Great video my mos was 16b10 Nike missile crewman and she's not really that informand on the missile that missile could travel 3 hundred miles accurate at the speed of 5 times faster than the speed of sound. And the missile was still used until 1977 when it was replaced by the Patriot missile

Lived with nukes all around me as a kid. Travis had B-52s loaded for Cuba, and our Army Nike sites were all armed and pointing to the sky. That was a fun October for a 13 year old. We even got the full, knowledgeable tour from the working staff in the bunkers.

Thanks for sharing this video. I was a 16 Bravo Nike Hercules Missile Crewman. I was stationed at LA-04 Mount Gleason in the Angeles National Forest just outside of Palmdale, California in 1972 and 73. Brought back a lot of memories for Me. Thanks again for sharing 😊

They really need to have a Nike Hercules veteran train the park staff. I think it's great they have this site open for tours, but so much of what she said wasn't accurate. I'm saying this because I'm a Nike Hercules veteran.

Paul, I have thoroughly enjoyed this video and I appreciate you for sharing it.

The Army would test for their Nike Hercules missiles at McGregor range in White Sands New Mexico.

I was an operator of NIKE missile in Japan Okinawa Prefecture. Thank you for the wonderful video.😊

Integrated Fire Control had two Radars one a missile tracking radar a Target tracking radar... they would practice locating a Target and locking on.

Cool!

The green dome-like structure was the tracking radar. One for the target, one for the missile. The optical sights was used to align the radar to make sure they’re all pointing in the right direction.

The hot guide was very knowledgeable.

Never mind "Fisherman's Wharf" or the cable cars, this is what I want to see when I return to the "Bay area!" Very informative video on what a "Cold War" Nike missile site consisted of and how it worked during the "Cold War." Thanks for sharing!

Awesome elevator!!

Great video really enjoyed it like they say brought back memories. I was a Sentry Dog Handler outside of Pittsburgh near Herminie Pennsylvania in 1973 to 74 when it was deactivated. Yes, my dog was put down. Best Duty in the army, always called before anybody came to visit, no k.p., no morning formation, didn't have to press our fatigues. I think the most important thing she didn't mention in the video, that once downfield was cleared and the dog handler came on duty what security really was. Around that perimeter fence there were call boxes probably a couple hundred yards apart back to the main desk, no radios. I was issued a forty-five caliber sidearm with five rounds of ammunition. Not even a full clip, and no backup ammunition. I had my Sentry Dog and my five rounds of ammunition. Now those Sentry dogs we're pretty darn mean and I trusted mine with my life. But, I was guarding 18 nuclear missiles with multiple Warheads. There was one guard and a guard shack at the entrance to the restricted Zone and he had an M16. During this time Patty Hearst and The symbionese Liberation Army we're on the other side of Pennsylvania, just wishing they could stumble across a nuclear weapon. Unfortunately, me and my dog would have been a pretty easy target for anybody serious looking to gain access. Glad none of that happened and that all of my stories are happy. I did see all 18 missiles brought up covers off the tips and ready to be fired one early morning the winter of 73. Don't recall exactly what happened but the president called all the military to the ready. It was very eerie, fog and the lights around the missiles with no red tips and just knowing the destruction in each one of those Rockets.

I was a veterinary technician at Ft. Dix, NJ 1972 to 1975. The Veterinary Field Office there was responsible for the military working dogs of Philadelphia Air Defense Command. The Nike Hercules Missiles were in a semicircular ring in southwest NJ, like Swedesboro, Paulsboro, Pedricktown. We, myself and the Veterinarian would make site visits to do checkups on the dogs. If the dogs required treatment it usually involved them coming to Ft. Dix. We did dental care on the dogs because they were guard dogs trained to be aggressive and needed good teeth. Most of the dogs when retired were euthanized.

The missiles were color-coded yellow for high explosive red for nuclear.

At Aberporth missile range we had a Nike tracking radar (the golfball part) used as an instrumentation radar.

Man there was one of these about 10 minutes away from my home in the Buffalo NY area (by car).

I worked at White Sands missile range as an AN=TSQ-73 Operator/Repairman. 2nd Bn. 52 ADA. This is the firing control system for Nike Hercules. It was running when I left, summer of 82.Those missiles would rattle our fire control annex building when leaving the rail!

My father was assigned to a Nike site W-26 in may of 1956 from his previous duty station in Germany. I grew up on a naval base it was the closest housing area near the Nike site where he worked I remember battery family picnic's at the sites in the summer.

The exclusion area had a 12-ft double perimeter fence with a 1 ft barbed wire apron... they also had multiple Tower guards.

That was a warhead building they disassembled the Warhead from the missile to test it.

The hot guide did not know what she was talking about. SP/5-A-5-56. 1962 to 1965

I guarded Nike Hercules in West Germany in the 1970s.

I live in a house that I was told was built in '55 as officer housing for the officers manning the Nike Missile site up at Tilden Park above Berkeley CA. All the homes on the street are identical inside. I had to cut through the front path to install a French Drain. The concrete was 8 inches thick and had no cracks! I would bet that it was from the same contractor who built the bunkers and silos!

Blackout lights on the vehicle, running no lights at night

Back in 1957 or 1958 the Nike missile site in Middletown NJ near the Earle navy road blew up, killing 10 or 12 workers. You can find newspaper articles about this tragedy if you google it.I was in grade school at the time and the whole building shook. Later during the following days soldiers searched the town for any victim remains and missile parts.

P51s don't have the teeth, that's P-40s.

The thing he pointed to in place of the headlight is called a blackout light. It was used for night convoying. It could be seen by the vehicle occupant in front of you and it had similar ones in the rear.

I was stationed at a Nike site in S. Korea in the '60s

The century dogs they put them through an obstacle course... the trainers would wear an attack suit and allow themselves to be attacked... those dogs were Fierce they can scare a person to death.

We didn't have Barrel probe protectors.

Army combat Vehicles had night time blackout lights... Abilene Texas had a Nike Hercules missile battery where I was stationed.

The missiles have a Ajax four cluster booster... is connected to a lanyard that sets off the rocket boosters.

The Mainbullau site in Germany was camouflaged... for aerial attack.

The missiles have to be aired to keep them operational... they are my mechanisms have to be checked to make sure they still work... The Guiding system has to be checked the command drills negative pich negative yaw etc

Abilene Texas where I was stationed had German Shepherd Century dogs... I asked about the gravesites... some dogs couldn't be trained they were like gun shy they had to be exterminate, they couldn't put the dogs back out in the general population.

Wouldn’t firing a Nike missile mean nuking Nappa, CA?

I had no idea some were necular.

Hey guys, this video deserves more likes!

Oh, and the P51 did not hace teeth, that was the P40 Warhawk.....

Thanks for doing the video. That's not a Jeep, it's a Duce and a half or 2.5ton transport truck. And it's Nuclear, pronounced New Clee AR. Not New clee yer.

"Nuke-lee-urr" rather than "Nuke-you-lurr". Just FYI...

The P-40 had the teeth, not the P-51

The Nike Hercules missiles rendered the Air Force ICBM missiles obsolete.

16:25 Ever heard of the traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

Good video but at 2:30 man sounds drunk.

CIA........hahahahaha!!!!! There is so much misinformation here, i lost about 50 brain cells watching it.

With all due respect, "Paul" (and that ain't much) you have absolutely NO idea what you're talking about! "Propaganda videos"? "Climb up and look thru the radar"? The 88 in SF-88 referred to a compass setting on the basis of 1-100. You need to read John Martini's book "The Last Missile Site". John was instrumental in the preservation and restoration of SF-88 and Battery Townsend across the way. I've been there dozens of times, often accompanying John on tours of both. My father was a Nike Missile crewman. And I have spoken with SF-88 docents at length, many of whom were Nike crewman. The park ranger you spoke with is new and barely knows more than you, which is little.

I live in Hammond Indiana the next town over was Munster Indiana they had a nice site base their one quarter mile away was the radar installation I used to go to the place a lot my father was there too that light on that truck on that boom crane truck that's a red light so you can see at night but not create

Have you Signed the Petition for Nike Hercules Veterans!! I dont know about your Health, but mine is exactly the same as those expressed on the Petition !