For those of you who, like me, had no idea what SAGE was...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi_Automatic_Ground_Environment
God bless your Dad, we owe so much we have today to guys like him. (I hope we aren’t remembered as the generation that squandered it all!)
FRegards
There was a SAGE facility at Truax Field in Madison, Wisconsin that was active when I was a kid. When it was retired, and the base was deactivated, the company that purchased the building had a heck of a time cutting holes in the walls as they were 6 or 10 feet thick.