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Show PAGE 2-WHITE SANDS MTSSILE RANGER, JULY 2, 1971 Colonel Broderick retires after 28 years active duty Colonel John P. Broderick, director of the National Range Operations Director ate at White Sands Missile Range, retired after 28 years of military service during ceremonies Wednesday afternoon. He plans to reside in Las Cruces, where he has recently built a new home. A successor to COL Broderick as director of NRO has not been named. During Wednesday's ceremony, the colonel received his retirement papers and also was awarded the second oak leaf ' cluster to the Legion of Merit. This third award of the medal was made for "his exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" as director of NRO from January 1970 through June 1971. COL BRODERICK The citation mentions COL Broderick's efforts in behalf of the Army's Pershing missile program and the Air Force SRAM (Short Range Attack Missile) program, and his achievements in augmenting and updating the range's instrumentation equipment inventory. His service includes six and a half years in the U.S. Navy and nearly 22 years in the U.S. Army. The son of retired Army Colonel M.L. Broderick, now of Sebastopol, Calif., John Broderick was born Nov. 2,1925, in Kirkwood, Mo. Upon graduation from Kirk-wood High School, he enlisted in the Navy in 1943, at the age of 17. After training at San Diego, Calif., he served as a torpedoman. In the Navy's V-12 college training program, he studied mathematics and engineering at California Institute of Technology. Later he attended the University of Southern California as a Naval ROTC cadet. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics from USC in 1948. He did graduate work at USC in 1948 and 1949. He was commissioned as an ensign in January 1949. Transferring to the U.S. Army in 1949, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in November of that year. During the next 10 years, COL Broderick served tours in the U.S. and in Austria and Thailand. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1951, to captain in 1954, and to major in 1959. At White Sands Missile Range as a major from 1960 through 1962, he served first as a Nike project officer, then as executive officer of the Systems Test Division, and finally as executive officer of Ordnance Mission (now Army Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate). He served with an Ordnance battalion in Germany after leaving WSMR. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1963. In 1968 and 1969, before returning to WSMR, he served in Vietnam as a senior adviser to the South Vietnamese Army. He was promoted to colonel in 1968. COL Broderick is a graduate of a number of Army courses and both the Command and General Staff College and Armed Forces Staff College. In addition to the Legion of Merit and first oak leaf cluster, he has been awarded the Army Commendation Medal and first oak leaf cluster and the Vietnamese Distinguished Service Order. The colonel and his wife, Jeanette, have been residing on post at 239 Jupiter Dr. Mrs. Broderick is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A, Sie-brecht of Altadena, Calif. COL Broderick's mother, Mrs. E.M. Broderick, resides in Kirkwood, Mo. Following retirement, the colonel plans to devote considerable time to landscaping and home improvement projects. He also hopes to improve his golf game and spend some time on his other hobbies, including hunting, fishing and camping. |