Earl Raymond

Army, CW4
In charge of missile techs

Dee Raymond

Civilian
Pan Am World Services Supply

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Sprint silo cover Earl Raymond during a 2001 return visit to N.D. with a Sprint silo cover that somehow wound up at an abandoned RV park north of the MSR complex (click photo for larger image).

From Dee Raymond, 24 May 2003:

We arrived at the MSR site back in April of 1974. The contractors hadn't turned the site over to the government yet. Earl was the CW4 in charge of the missile techs and I worked for Pan Am Supply. My job was really interesting since I managed the Property Book for all of the Tactical Handling Equipment which even included all of the furniture. This required visits to all of the RSLs and tactical buildings at MSR and PAR. Some of those locations required that an armed MP accompany me.

We got the site ready to pass the Technical Proficiency Inspection (TPI) and 3 days later Ted Kennedy got a vote thru to close us down.

We lived in one of the California prefabs in the housing development from April of 1974 to October of 1977. The insulation was soooo bad that we would have to chip ice off of the electrical plug-ins. We had "snirt" storms there which was a combination of snow and dirt being blown off of the fields into the houses. Once the base housing closed, we moved into Langdon and lived in one of the "eightplexes".

Earl retired from the Army in November of 1976 and was hired by Federal Electric Corp. (FEC) to determine the "salvage" value of the MSR and RSLs. Pan Am (my employer) was a subcontractor to FEC. Once the MSR closed and FEC took over the contract, I was moved to PAR to work.

Earl was hired by Lockheed to work at the Bangor, Washington Submarine Base in October of 1977. We lived there almost 20 years until Lockheed transferred Earl to Cocoa Beach, FL in June 1997. Earl retired in June of 2000 and since then we've spent most of our time traveling the country in our motorhome.

We visited the Nekoma area during the summer of 2001 and took digital pictures of the site and the empty lots where our house stood. The government leases out the land to local farmers to grow wheat on. It was weird to see combines working in the fields on base. Strangely enough Nekoma still looks basically the same as it did back in the late 70s.

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