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Gy Spurlock may have taken the attached picture away from Monkey Mountain in 1970 but in 1968 Typhoon Bess took away the AN/TPS-22 rotating balloon antenna which is(was) inside the larger green "bag" shown  and blew it all over the hillside.  The " bags" were replaced with the "hard" antenna, a much more practical piece of hardware although a loss of sensitivity and range was reported to us maintenance types by the scope dopes.  Until the hard antenna arrived on the hill and was installed, the -22 pedestal was used to turn a "hog trough IFF antenna so the TPS-22 became an IFF ONLY radar for a bit of time.  I can state here that Marine Capt G. D. Fabricius, traded a whole PC (with trailer) load of the TPS-22 bag pieces to Army Captain Morris Schallenberger, an OV-1 driver, for 6 pair of aviator sun glasses.  (He said the OV-1 was the ugliest airplane in the Army inventory but could outperform our OV-10.)  Morris was a recon pilot at night and Sq. Supply Officer by day billeted on Marble Mountain and he wanted the rubber bag pieces to water proof his bunker/liquor hooch at Marble.  Well, the Army got the truck load of "bag" OK but the Marine(s) only got 2 pair of aviator sunglasses.  Morris blamed it on "needs of the service" or some such Army excuse for shorting me by 4 pair.  The deal was negotiated and agreed to because both captains were raised and high schooled among the 650 souls living in Newell, South Dakota during their impressionable youth, circa 1940's-1950's.