For his service he was awarded the Civil Air Patrol Distinguished Service Medal.Every team of heroes needs a leader, and Hawk fulfilled that role capably in the Marvel comic and many latter episodes of the Sunbow cartoon.
He restructured the Wing’s financial system from an antiquated handwritten system to a fully automated accounting program, which allowed access to vital data needed to assess trends and support financial management decisions. He established an advisory council of past Wing Commanders to instill an invaluable continuity of leadership and experience within the wing. Under his leadership the Wing purchased a glider and initiated a soaring program for Cadets, as well as, participated in a test program of CAP squadrons established at Middle Schools throughout the state.
He served as New Mexico CAP Wing Commander from April 1993 to August 1995. He was Director of the Southwest Region Staff College in 1990. He was active in the CAP Senior Training Program and is a graduate of both the Region and National Staff Colleges and has served on the instructional staff of both. His next assignment was as the New Mexico Wing Standardization Officer and Chief Check Pilot. His duty assignments were as a CAP pilot and check pilot, then as a mission pilot, a mission check pilot, and Cadet Orientation Pilot. Joe was also associated with the Civil Air Patrol for many years. His experience at White Sands made him invaluable in the process of developing range instrumentation, targets and insuring safety at the new range Joe retired from White Sands in 1979 and lives in Las Cruces with his wife Fern. advisor to a NATO users’ conference in Paris and Athens concerning developing a training range on the Greek island of Crete. He was selected as a member of a two-man team to evaluate testing of several foreign missile systems such as Roland to see if the United States would buy them.Īnother high-level assignment came in 1963 when he was selected as a U.S. Joe’s experience and expertise were recognized by many outside the White Sands community. This allowed multiple aerial targets to be flown for tests. He was involved in planning and testing an early drone formation control system using F-80 fighters. These air defense systems needed targets so Joe jumped in to aid in the development of targets as well. For the next 24 years, he was involved with programs like Nike Hercules, Hawk, Redeye, Stinger and Chaparral. In 1955, Joe transferred to missile program management where his first assignment was the Nike Ajax. Photos taken by these cameras astounded the public and won range optics operators several awards. He returned to White Sands with the first four Intercept Ground Optical Recorders (IGORs). This was the first major telescope system developed for capturing attitude and event data on air defense tests. Just a year later Joe was sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to participate in the final design and assembly of five new telescopes that would record intercepts over the range. He immediately made his presence felt by designing an improved optical orientation target for fixed cameras. He graduated from NMSU in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.Īfter graduation, Joe went to work at White Sands as a camera operator. Joe first saw White Sands Proving Ground in 1946 when he was a student employee with the fledging PSL at New Mexico State University and a group from the lab went to watch the third V-2 firing at White Sands Proving Ground. Joseph Gold was born in Appalachia, VA, in 1924.
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