page_title: 579th Strategic Missile Squadron
section_title: Aircraft and missiles
hierarchical_section_title: 579th Strategic Missile Squadron / Lineage / Aircraft and missiles
caption_attribution_description: English: 579th Strategic Missile Squadron SM-65F Atlas Missile Sites
context_page_description: The 579th Strategic Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 6th Strategic Aerospace Wing, stationed at Walker AFB, New Mexico
  On 1 September 1961, the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron went on alert as a Strategic Air Command Intercontinental ballistic missile squadron, being equipped with the SM-65F Atlas, with a mission of nuclear deterrence.
  The squadron was inactivated as part of the phaseout of the Atlas ICBM on 25 March 1965.
context_section_description: B-24 Liberator, 1943–1945
  SM-65F Atlas Missile 1962–1965
  Operated twelve missile sites:
  579–1 (1962–1963)*, 0.8 mi NW of Acme, NM     33°35′52″N 104°20′27″W
  579–2 (1962–1964)*, 8.1 mi ENE of Acme, NM     33°38′27″N 104°12′10″W
  579–3, 16.1 mi ENE of Acme, NM     33°41′17″N 104°04′29″W
  579–4, 12.7 mi ENE of Rio Hondo, NM     33°25′31″N 104°11′17″W
  579–5 (1962–1964)*, 20.0 mi SE of Acme, NM     33°25′24″N 104°02′54″W
  579–6, 12.4 mi ESE of Hagerman, NM     33°04′24″N 104°07′12″W
  579–7, 4.2 mi E of Hagerman, NM     33°06′16″N 104°15′29″W
  579–8, 7.3 mi S of Hagerman, NM     33°00′15″N 104°20′22″W
  579–9, 2.5 mi ENE of Sunset, NM     33°21′17″N 105°02′07″W
  579–10, 11.2 mi E of Sunset, NM     33°22′21″N 104°52′59″W
  579–11, 6.2 mi W of Arroyo Macho del, NM     33°35′58″N 104°34′33″W
  579–12, 16.7 mi NW of Acme, NM     33°43′47″N 104°34′05″W
  .* Missile explosion destroyed site (see history text for details)
caption: SM-65F Atlas Missile Sites
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