Word: schrievers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the future of our country lies in the capabilities of dynamic men like Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, I read with extreme interest your April 1 cover story. The Atlas ICBM will be successful for the simple reason that Ben Schriever and his associates possess a fighting will...
Your splendid article about Missileman Bernard Schriever is most inspiring and comforting for the free world - in case trouble comes...
...cost the U.S. about $2 billion and would have no immediate and visible military value. But the missilemen do not leave the argument there. "It would be like the Sixth Fleet," said one Air Force general, "a deterrent and therefore a peacekeeper. I'm all for it." Ben Schriever adds: "Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy...
...even as his cold eyes range far into space, Ben Schriever, missileman extraordinary, keeps his feet on the earth. His job is to find out how to move an H-bomb 5,500 miles from Point A to Point B in 20 minutes before the Russians find out how, and to produce the hardware that can do it. "The mission is to maintain the peace." he says. "The ballistic missile will improve our deterrent capability. This will make any aggressor think twice...
This will be the real and immediate meaning of the fateful X-day that will occur at the Air Force Missile Test Center in Florida a few weeks hence when Ben Schriever's first Model-T ICBM is lifted vertically for its first test blastoff. And while this will be a great moment in military history, what will 1987 think of it? Or 1997? The missile stands just about where the airplane stood after World War I-when military planes had to compete for the taxpayer dollar with the cavalry horse. How primitive will tomorrow...