Edward A. Gallant
Bio
Edward Gallant is the last child in a family from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, who dedicated most of the 20th century to serving their country. After enlisting in 1964, he attended basic training at Fort Dix, and then he moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, with the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. His rank at that point was Corporal Spec 4, as a weapons repairmen on the MSQ 28 System. Edward Gallant continued to monitor this system that was capable of calculating trajectories that could send missiles to any desired location. He also assisted with the training and equipping of Korean forces in a covert operating system to maintain the safety of the Korean people after the war.
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Weapons Monitoring Center
Edward Gallant describes his assignment as a weapons monitoring repairman on a MSQ 28 System (Fort Bliss, TX). He explains this 40 foot computer could provide 6000 miles of microwave radar which was two times the distance of the United States. Edward Gallant says they could see all the way to the Soviet Union. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Edward Gallant says the Russians pulled their weapons out of Cuba and sold the technology to China, and the Chinese sold it to North Korea which is why they have access to nuclear weapons. He reports the United States gave three of these weapons systems to Germany, two Korea, and Edward Gallant operated one that could have sent over 256 missiles towards their target.
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Transitioning the Computer to Koreans
Edward Gallant says the weapons monitoring computer was only operated by Americans while he was serving. However, he reports South Koreans came it to be trained on the computer because it was going to be sold to South Korea.
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Camp Howard (near Osan) during the Cold War
Edward Gallant describes working on a forty foot computer at Camp Howard near Osan. He explains the monitoring system for missiles that could reach across many countries. He shares fixing the computer and watching it constantly just in case it needed to be used during the Cold War to fire nuclear missiles against communists.
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