Nov. 22, 2010

I've had guys ask me why I call these the 55th & 58th SRS. If you would take time to read the Histories of the 55th & 58th you would know that prior to June 1954, both were called  Strategic Reconnaissance Squadrons /Medium Weather, as was the 53rd, 54th, 56th, and 57th. In June 1954 the Strategic & Medium was dropped and they became Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons. A lot of our guys also didn't even realize that our main purpose was monitoring Russia's nuclear program. It was Weather Squadrons like ours that helped to keep the "Cold War " cold.