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icle Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 Missile installed at GreelyBy DANIEL RICE, Staff Writer • FORT GREELY--Against the backdrop of dust devils whipped up by trademark Delta Junction-area winds, a crane operator slowly lowered a 54-foot missile into a launching silo Thursday while senior Army officers and military contract workers watched proudly from about a football field's distance away. More than two decades after the idea of a missile defense system was conceived during the Reagan administration, workers at Fort Greely installed the first interceptor missile in a launching pad picked for Alaska's strategic location in the globe. About a...