USAF 485th Tactical Missile Wing Security Police Squadron Patch BGM-109G GLCM Florennes AB Belgium (3.5 Inch) – Subdued Variant

USAF 485th TMW SPS Security Police Squadron Patch USAFE BMG-109G GLCM Ground Launched Cruise Missile 1984 Florennes AB Belgium 3.5 Inch Subdued Variant

USAF 485th TMW SPS patch

Subdued Taiwan machine made embroidered on olive green twill with paper covered single warp gauze backing and a merrowed overlocked edge 90mm three and one half inches.

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Wing History

485th Tactical Missile Wing was activated on 1 August 1984 at Florennes Air Base Belgium to operate BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile GLCMs introduced to counteract the threat of the Soviet SS-20 Saber road-mobile, intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) deployed by the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact from 1976.

Reporting to Seventeenth Air Force the Wing controlled 71st Tactical Missile Squadron which had 48 missiles held by three Flights each having 2 Launch Control Vehicles and 4 Transporter Erector Launchers with four missiles each providing 16 missiles per flight. The Wing provided support with 485th Tactical Missile Maintenance Squadron. During periods of increased tension the flights would be deployed with additional security and support vehicles to one of a number of pre-surveyed classified locations in the countryside away from the base. The flight would dig in erect camouflage to hide the vehicles set up special intrusion detection radar and prepare for launch.

The Reykjavík summit in Iceland on 11 October 1986 between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in principle to removing Intermediate Range Nuclear Force systems from Europe and to equal global limits of 100 INF missile warheads. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed on 8 December 1987 when 20 Cruise Missiles and 12 Launchers had been deployed to Florennes AB with further deployment stopped at that point. The INF Treaty came into force on 1 June 1988 leading to the removal of all nuclear missiles from Western Europe.

485th TMW was inactivated on 30 September 1989 following the decommissioning of the BGM-109G GLCMs.

485th SPS Security Police Squadron provided security for the base and the deployed Flights.

485th Tactical Missile Wing was assigned: –

• 485th Security Police Squadron previously the 485th Missile Security Squadron which had been redesignated to 485th SPS on 28 June 1984 before the Wing activation at Florennes AB on 1 August 1984.
• 485th Tactical Missile Maintenance Squadron
• 485th Combat Support Group
• 485th Transportation Squadron,
• 485th Supply Squadron,
• 485th Civil Engineering Squadron,
• 2135th Communications Squadron and
• USAF Clinic Florennes.

This USAF 485th TMW SPS patch dates from 1984.