Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1972 Page: 2 of 28
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series of evaluations collectively called the Airspace
Control Test.
Those new acronyms being used at MASSTER
WESS PRRS and ADCS will become familiar to
many people in the Ft. Hood area as the systems
they name are employed in the testing program.
WESS is the Weapons Engagement Scoring
System. It's a safe laser system that will simulate
gunfire in war games and will assist evaluators
by accurately scoring actual hits on opposing
forces. The system is expected to be in use early
next summer.
PRRS is the Position Reporting and Record
ing System. It's a locator system that can display
the whereabouts of its 200 man- or vehicle-mounted
units during maneuvers on Ft. Hood. It's expected
to be in use late this fall.
ADCS is the Automated Data Collection Sys
tem a computer system that permits input of in
formation from portable units in the field. The units
will permit field test evaluators to punch in reports
as events happen. ADCS is expected to be in use
in early winter.
The three systems are highly sophisticated
means of collecting data in the kind of major sys
tems tests that MASSTER conducts.
In its first three years MASSTER has not only
conducted its numerous tests it has broadened its
mission grown undergone a name change and had
the leadership of two commanding generals and
three deputy commanding generals.
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. William C.
Westmoreland directed the establishment of
MASSTER in a memo published Aug. 11 1969. Ft.
Hood was selected following a study of possible
sites that included serious consideration of Ft. Car
son Colo. Ft. Riley Kan. and Ft. Bragg N.C.
Originally designated Project Mobile Army
Sensor Systems Test Evaluation and Review the
field test organization would examine equipment
and systems in the area of surveillance target ac
quisition and night observation (STANO) with a
priority second only to Vietnam combat operations.
Officially established on Oct. 11969 MASSTER be-
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gan functioning in mid-October when most of its
personnel arrived.
The project director was Corps and Ft.
Hod Commanding General Lt. Gen. Beverley
Powell. The new deputy project director was then-
Maj. Gen. John Norton. The newly-formed organi
zation settled at its West Ft. Hood location in No
vember 1969.
In October 1970 Norton was promoted to lieu
tenant general and re-assigned as commanding gen
eral of Combat Developments Command. He was
replaced by Maj. Gen. G. P. Seneff Jr. who later
replaced Powell when he retired in July 1971. Sim
ultaneously Seneff received his third star. Then-
Brig. Gen. Robert M. Shoemaker took Seneff's place
as deputy commanding general of MASSTER.
In November 1972 Maj. Gen. Robert M. Shoe
maker was promoted to his present rank. Brig.
Gen. Jack W. Hemingway chief of staff of MASS
TER since September 1971 retired in June after
30 years of active duty. He was replaced by newly-
promoted Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Starker who had
previously been director of Test Directorate C.
Starker received his star and his new job early
in July. He was the fourth colonel to receive
a star at MASSATER. MASSATER's first com
mand sergeant major Cmd. Sgt. Maj. Walter W.
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The reorganization of April 1 1971 brought a
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STANO equipment and organizations only. The new
charter broadened MASSTER's scope permitting
study of any materiel system concepts permitting
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U.S. Army but in allied armies as well. Some 1000
visitors from throughout the Department of De
fense and other countries have visited MASSTER
since its formation. These have included many of
the highest ranking U.S. Officers and DOD civilians
among them Secretary of the Army Robert Froe-
hlke Senator John Tower and a dozen four-star
generals.
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Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1972, newspaper, September 29, 1972; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255179/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.