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In 1972, the first time I erected Camo systems, we had smooth aluminum poles, (with cloth nets!). Then we went to fiberglass. In the 80's sometime, we went back to Aluminum smooth poles. I retired in 1993, and never saw a ribbed pole, until I started working as a contractor, in 2014.

This looks like Basic HAWK. We went from Basic to Improved in 1977, so it's older than 40 years, at least. What you are looking at is a HAWK M-501 Loader-Transporter getting ready to load, or unload, three MIM-23 Birds onto a M-192 Launcher. There was a WHOLE lot of other pieces of equipment in...

First came aluminum poles. We used them in the early 70's. Then, someone decided that fiberglass was cheaper, lighter, easier to make and made less noise. Every unit wound up ordering countless replacement pole systems. And in the beginning, the first fiberglass poles didt mate up with aluminum...