"WaltBJ"
.. I was on three missions
out of Homestead in our 104As. All three times the bloody Bismark
crapped out. One never moved off the pad, one had a booster blow up,
and the last one's ramjets never lit off.

Sounds like the Bomarc "A" models with the liquid booster. We used the
"B" model with solid boost which were far less troublesome. The first time
446 went down on a shoot they took out a B47 drone. They then switched to
much cheaper Firebee drones fired from Tyndal if I remember correctly. We
stayed at Hurlbert Field #9 but we test fired from Santarosa Island near
there. One year we stayed at a Howard Johnson's near Fort Walton Beach.
Very nice break from our cold weather that time of year.
Ed