Fort George G. Meade: The First 100 Years

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as a diversion to keep me distracted from what they were up to. What they didn’t realize until too late, is they had gifted me with the ability to see what they were up to not only with speed but in comfort! They did not provide me with a golf cart the following year. Regan Fires the controllers President Ronald Regan fired the air traffic controllers in 1981, Tipton’s tower was moth-balled. When the Directorate of Public Works was called in to ensure the tower was properly shut down, they forgot to turn off the water to the tower’s drinking fountain. Winter came. One evening I received a call reporting a leak in the tower, but it didn’t sound like an emergency so I decided I would get to it in the morning. When I arrived at work in the morning, I found a massive icicle that measured at least 90 feet tall and over 15 feet wide hanging from the side of the airfield tower. Fortunately the icicle melted without toppling the control tower. *** (Pg. 226 above) Army Reserve 2005th MISO Co., trains at Tipton Airfield at Fort Meade. (Pg. 226 lower) Tipton airfield provided 24/7 support and aircraft services for transit military aircraft. (This page) Air traffic controller at Tipton Airfield.
Hollywood's Here Again THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES 229 The B-25 Mitchell bomber swooped low and landed at Tipton Army Airfield here. A U.S. Navy R4D, better known in its civilian configuration as a DC-3, soon followed. Both WWII aircraft taxied and parked on the tarmac in front of Hanger 84. Scenes from 1942? Not exactly. With several big-name stars, and an entourage of scores of extras and some 22 vehicles, the movies came to Fort Meade. The result was a fleeting glance at how a film is put together, during an afternoon which stretched into evening, then into night as set and camera placement, rehearsals and “takes” showed an order to what at first appeared to be total chaos. Topping the list of stars who arrive Aug. 18 for the oneday shoot was Robert Mitchum who – yes, it has to be said – looks the same in person as on the screen. Victoria Tennant and Hart Bochner were co-stars in the scenes filmed at Tipton. The cause of all this was the shooting of several scenes from the Dan Curtis Productions/ABC Circle Films production of “War and Remembrance,” a sequel to the ABC television mini-series “The Winds of War,” which was aired several years ago. Perhaps 100 spectators from Fort Meade, cordoned off behind yellow police-line tape with not a bucket of popcorn in sight, braved the heat and boredom of waiting to catch a glimpse of the stars. What most of the spectators learned was that the life of a star, on the job at least, isn’t all glamor. Mitchum, Tenant and Bochner endured several rehearsals followed by what seemed like endless “takes” as they recited the same lines, embraced the same embraces and acted out the same emotions repeatedly. As he stood in the 90-plus degree heat, on the tarmac reflecting the sun, Mitchum waited with his co-stars as cameras and reflectors were set up, repositioned, and sound checks were made again and again. “Don’t hurry. We’re all comfortable out here,” he sarcastically remarked. Bochner was a little more direct. “I’m sweating like a pig out here,” was his comment on the weather, as he wiped By Larry Heslin his face with a handkerchief before the cameras final rolled. Tipton AAF was chosen for the filming because the production company needed a location where the hangers bore a resemblance to the era in which the film is set, WWII. The airfield, in fact, is supposed to be what is now Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, around 1942. Hanger 84 was used for more than just the backdrop for filming. Just after arriving the stars, extras and production crew sat eating a late lunch – inside the hanger. Mitchum was in his tee shirt. Despite the setting, the menu wasn’t bad; a choice of filet of swordfish or lasagna for the entrée, with a fruit/vegetable salad buffet. The repast was served from the dropdown side of a food trailer, and overseen by executive chef Wayne Serbu, based in Ontario, Canada, who just got finished doing the same thing on a movie starring Burt Reynolds. He’s been on movie sets for years so he isn’t exactly star-struck. He had time to walk over to Tennant and ask her to pose with a group of hopeful and anxious soldiers, who put Serbu up to it. The crew of the UH-1 Huey were soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve from Georgia, at Fort Meade for annual training with the 11th Special Forces. Capt. Thomas M. Penland, Warrent Officer 1 David Miles and Spc. Brian C. Raynor were ecstatic when Tennant got up from her lunch and joined them at their helicopter for the snapshot. The stars had just arrived from shooting scenes at the U.S. Naval Academy and had driven up in a caravan to fort Meade; lunch was a brief respite. Executive producer and director Dan Curtis got them to work quickly afterward with makeup, setting up shots, rehearsals and finally actual “takes.” Altogether, two scenes involving Mitchum, Tennant and Bochner were shot. The first involved Bochner, who plays Mitchum’s son, arriving on a DC-3, called a R4D in the Navy at the time, from the South Pacific. Mitchum and Tennant are on hand to greet him. The second scene was shot inside the aircraft, supposedly in flight in daylight. By the time the scene got moving it was around 9 p.m. and dark. But, true to the reputation, movie magic prevailed and the
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Centennial History of Fort Meade FO
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Table Of Contents
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Namesake: Samuel Frazier Reece . .
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THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES . . . . .
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Special thanks to the 55th Signal C
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WHO WAS GEORGE G. MEADE? 3 Who was
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World War I Years
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WORLD WAR I YEARS 9 “The world mu
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12 THE FIRST 100 YEARS orders from
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The First Men Arrive The 154th Depo
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WORLD WAR I YEARS Trench Warfare Tr
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Women Join the Cause The concept of
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Camp Laurel Camp Meade’s explosiv
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Epiphany Chapel and Church House WO
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Odenton Odenton’s history is inte
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40 THE FIRST 100 YEARS July 3, 1918
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Remount Station 304 When America en
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Heroic Pigeons Racing homers, other
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Medical care on Camp Meade WORLD WA
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Camp Meade and Fort McHenry WORLD W
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Val Browning By Sherry Kuiper When
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WORLD WAR I YEARS Five of Hearts: W
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WORLD WAR I YEARS NAMESAKE: Streets
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NAMESAKE: Samuel Frazier Reece WORL
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NAMESAKE: William Clifford Rock WOR
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NAMESAKE: Mathew Lewis English WORL
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A Poem By Pvt. Yakel In a lit up st
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BETWEEN THE WARS A Stove to Remembe
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BETWEEN THE WARS A Letter to Mom 91
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Letter from Patton to Rockenbach BE
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Eisenhower at Camp Meade BETWEEN TH
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100 THE FIRST 100 YEARS Frequent ve
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Salvage for Victory "Salvage For Vi
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Leonard Wood to Meade When the War
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World war II years
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Fort Meade During WWII WORLD WAR II
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The 29 th Division As part of a ser
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Units That Make Us Proud WORLD WAR
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graduating classes of soldiers who
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When Amoré Freed the POW WORLD WAR
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Confessions of a POW During the mid
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The cold war
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The Move It took five years for NSA
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The National Cryptologic Museum and
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Operation Gyroscope Before the Cold
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The Rogue Nike Incident Fort Meade
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Scrapbook Memories
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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES On July 11, 1931
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Charles A. Albrecht - NSA children
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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES Army Master Sgt.
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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES Staff Sgt. Rolli
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Page 193 and 194: Charles Chuck A. Albrecht - Swimmin
Page 195 and 196: Rick Hagman - The Music of the Day
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Page 199 and 200: Jerry Glodek - Army Field Band SCRA
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Page 209 and 210: Womens Rights For WACs The role of
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Golfing at Meade For decades, The C
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Master Sgt. Robert “Pitt” Pittm
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Second Army and Fort Meade CYBERSPA
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