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The BOMARC launch complex at McGuire AFB. BOMARC Site RW-01 is a 75-acre (30 ha) [1] fenced-off site contaminated primarily with "weapons-grade plutonium (WGP), highly-enriched and depleted uranium." On 7 June 1960 an explosion in a CIM-10 Bomarc missile fuel tank caused the accident and subsequent contamination.
McGuire AFB/McGuire, the common name of the McGuire unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Air Force base in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, approximately 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton. McGuire is under the jurisdiction of the Air Mobility Command.
The BOMARC missile site was located 4 miles (6.4 km) east-southeast of McGuire Air Force Base at [ citation needed ] Although geographically separated from the base, it was an off base facility of McGuire and the squadron received administrative and logistical support from McGuire.
Lockdown for all personnel announced around 3 p.m. Thursday
The Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc ("Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center") (IM-99 Weapon System [4] prior to September 1962) [5] [6] was a supersonic ramjet powered long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) used during the Cold War for the air defense of North America.
Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL) is a United States military facility located 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. The base is the only tri-service base in the United States Department of Defense and includes units from all six armed forces branches.
C-17 Globemaster III from McChord AFB flies over New York City after completing the first transcontinental flight on synthetic fuel to McGuire AFB. The 305th was reactivated at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, replacing the 438th Operations Group on 1 October 1994. At McGuire, the group controls three squadrons of Boeing C-17A Globemaster ...
2d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Lockheed F-94A [b]. During the Cold War the group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 568th Air Base Group, and activated at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey in 1952 [3] in a major reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC) responding to ADC's difficulty under the existing wing base organizational structure in deploying fighter squadrons to the best ...