Gordon Birr

Wausau East High School

Class of 1952

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Gordon Birr - Class of 1952 - Wausau East High School

First Name	Gordon
Last Name	Birr
Graduation Year	Class of 1952
Gender	Male
Hometown	Wausau, Wisconsin
Relationship Status	Single
About Me	Retired Scientist Engineer Hughes Aircraft (Radar Systems Division). Class 1952 Wausau Senior High. U.S. Navy 1953-1959 Korea Vet. Submarine Tender USS Nereus AS-17, Submarine Rescue Vessel USS Florikan ASR-9 & Tin Can Sailor USS O'Brien DD-725 RM1-P1 Radioman, Electronic Maintenance. UW Marathon County 1960-1962. UW Madison BSEE 1965 Student/Summer Employee Physics Dept. Ultra High Vacuum Labs for Prof. Herb PHD (White Sands Manhatten Project Scientist). Hughes 1965-1967 Member Of Technical Staff Culver City, El Segundo, Goldstone DSIF (NASA/JPL Deep Space Instrumentation Facility). Telemetry Data Engineer for Surveyor 1 thru 5 Moon Landers, Cape Kennedy DSIF and Ascension Island DSIF. Hughes 1967-1968 USS Enterprise CVN-65 (USN Civilian Technical Representative 'Sailor-Of-Fortune') during Sea Trials & Full Gulf Of Tonkin Cruise, S.F., S.D., Hawaii, Sasibo, Subic Bay, N. Korea (During USS Pueblo Capture), Yankee Station Vietnam (Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club). R&R Hong Kong Cruise. All thanks to John McCain's father Admiral John McCain after son was shot down over Hanoi Oct 1967. Hughes 1968-1969 Ubon Thailand USAF 8th. TFW (USAF Civilian Technical Representative 'Solder-Of-Fortune') , side trips Bangkok, Pattya, Chiang Mai, Kwai, Kanchanaburi, Ratchathani Mun River Villages, Isan region Motorcycle trips, Hong Kong & Kowloon. 3 month Leave Of Absence - R&R trip back to USA via Bangkok, Penang, Singapore, Darwin, Brisbane. 2 month camping throughout Great Barrier Reef region, Sydney, Christchurch N.Z., Dunedin, Mt. Cook Hermitage, Tasman Glacier Ski Plane, Fiordlands mountain & boat trips, Aukland, Rotorua, Papeete & Moorea Tahiti, Hawaii to L.A. 1970-1993 Hughes Radar Systems Division Culver City, Conoga Park, Kilroy Center, Pt. Mugu, Project Engineer, Senior Project Engineer, Systems Engineer, Scientist Engineer. Navy F111A & F-14 Tomcat Radar/Pheonix T&E ECCM (Electronic Counter-Counter Measures) software, displays, flight test, Tactical Manuals, F-14 Operational Advisory Group, Top Gun Training S.D., Point Mugu, Oceana, Mirimar, China Lake. Crew on Navy TA3B Flight Test Engineer at Pt. Mugu. Worked with Capt. John Weaver (WHS 1951). Radm. Weaver took over Hughes Radar System Group after his Naval Retirement and retired as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Aircraft. After Hughes merged with Raytheon, Weaver continued there and recently retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Raytheon International. Met once with Capt. Weaver at Pt. Mugu when he was CO of the Pacific Missile Test Range to finalize plans for further Phoenix Missile and F-14 Radar ECCM testing on Navy's Sea Test Range using target drones. It never occurred to me that he was "Johny Weaver" WHS 1951's All-Conference Quarterback and Basketball Guard, graduate of U. S. Naval Academy, on Navy's winning team in 1955 Sugar Bowl & 1955 College All Star game. Finally made the connection from his Pt. Mugu Press departure story about his football background. (Back in the 1950's we all ...(read more)