868th Tactical Missile Training Squadron
The 868th Tactical Missile Training Squadron is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with the 868th Tactical Missile Training Group, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, where it conducted training with the BGM-109G Gryphon. It was inactivated on 31 May 1990.
Training launch of a BGM-109G Gryphon from its Transporter-Erector-Launcher at the Utah Test and Training Range in November 1982
Squadron launch of a TM-61C missile at Tainan AB in 1959
TM-61C Matador Missiles at Tainan Air Base, 1959
BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile
The Ground Launched Cruise Missile, or GLCM, was a ground-launched cruise missile developed by the United States Air Force in the last decade of the Cold War and disarmed under the INF Treaty.
BGM-109G Gryphon Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) showing 4 missile launch tubes
BGM-109G on display at the National Museum of US Air Force
Ground Launched Cruise Missile GAMA (GLCM Alert and Maintenance Area)
GAMAs at RAF Molesworth, England. 4 GAMAs, 1 per flight, each holding 16 missiles, total 64 missiles. Molesworth was completely reconstructed between 1981 and 1985, being transformed from a largely abandoned World War II Eighth Air Force B-17 base to a modern NATO facility. The large World War II "J" type hangar in the upper left was retained as a memorial to the World War II 303d Bombardment Group. Both Bob Hope and Glenn Miller performed USO shows in that hangar during the war years.
