White Sands Missile Range News

This is an answer to a recent letter to the Daily News expressing concern about aircraft-generated sonic booms and engine noise.

The Brown family, including mom Nikki, 24, and daughters Gabby, 4, and Brandie, 2, is missing a big piece to the family puzzle -- husband and father Sgt.

For 20 years now workers at a plant near Farmington have quietly built parts for some of America's most high-tech tools of war.

The F-100 jet, which was built in 1956, sits in its refurbished state. The aircraft will be moved to the Texas Panhandle War Memorial near Georgia Street by early 2010.

ETSVETS Inc., which has its headquarters in Enterprise, will provide engineering and technical support for C4I testing as part of the ManTech team that was just awarded a $286,000 contract from the U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

The former chief meteorologist for the U.S. Army at the Pentagon, Gunnar C. Carlson Jr., will expose the "hoax" of alleged "global warming" at the 92nd annual meeting of the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau in Albuquerque.

DALLAS, TX: Lockheed Martin successfully fired a U.S. Army Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rocket 92 kilometers in a recent test at White Sands Missile Range, NM.

Like the country at large, White Sands Missile Range reacted with concern and sadness to Thursday's massacre at Fort Hood.

Today is Veterans Day. How to you plan to mark the occasion? Most folks who are employed by the government probably have the day off.

White Sands Missile Range has initiated a Wounded Warrior Co-Op Program to help expedite recruitment efforts while at the same time helping soldiers transition to civilian life.

The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.

Cadets 1st Class Daniel Richardson and Sean Foote prepare FalconLaunch 6 for a static test fire in Jacks Valley at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo., Nov.

The test-firing of a rocket built by Cadets in the Air Force Academy's FalconLaunch program was a disaster when the rocket blew up Wednesday morning.

Peter "Rupi" Ruplenas is 91 years old, and his memory remains quite sharp. As he sits back in a leather recliner in his living room, Ruplenas recalls his younger years spent serving his country, as he documented nearly every step of his journey through his cameras.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE Soldiers and civilians on White Sands Missile Range said goodbye to the 573rd Clearance Company at a deployment ceremony Oct.

Herald/Steven Doll Amanda Davis, wife of Sgt. Robert Davis who was killed in Afghanistan, receives a hug from Col.

A 25-year-old woman driving to work at White Sands Missile Range was killed in a head-on collision early Monday on a road in far Northeast El Paso.

What the Army is now asking for is a permit to leave in place - in Hawaii - the DU left over from years of test firing of M101 mortar "spotting rounds," each round containing close to half a pound of depleted uranium .

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today reported that the Senate has approved key defense legislation that gives strong support to New Mexico's military installations and the state's two national laboratories.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jimmy E. Barger has graduated from the Air Traffic Control Operations Apprentice Course at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss.