Photos From
The Keesler Yearbook - 1960
Photos submitted by John Tianen
The Biloxi waterfront, along Hwy. 90. The large quonset-type building
in the right center may have been the USO. This was blown away by
Hurricane Camille in 1969. Today, casinos line the beach.
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Keesler AFB Main Gate in 1960
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Basic Training continued at Keesler for most students. We believe this photo was taken in the
"Triangle" area.>
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Radars and antennas in the "sets" training hangar. The height-finder antenna in the
foreground an AN/FPS-4.
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Radar techs at work on the AN/FPS-20 in the "sets" training hangar
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Phase-2 students learned to use the PSM-6 multimeter in the late `50s & early `60s.
This large mock-up was used in training.
The PSM-6 was probably the most-used piece of test equipment in the shop.
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The Keesler radar field site. Radars too large to fit in the hangars, such
as the AN/FPS-3, or which radiated at too high a power level, such as the
AN/FPS-6 in the background were at the field site.
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"Scope-dopes", er..., Radar operators in training. Radar maintenance types
always used the term "scopedope" to describe our operator friends, in a
joking and friendly manner, of course. We made a lot of scopedope friends,
and found that they used the term among themselves. No offense meant to
our operator colleagues out there, they did a job I wouldn`t have wanted.
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Radar operator trainees practice a mission at the plotting board
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Radar tech trainees work on a search radar PPI (Plan Position Indicator)
scope. Note the open windows on the "sets" hangar mezzanine.
This unit is a OA-99(A).
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