Posted on 05/11/2018 4:09:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
NORAD celebrates its 60th this year, and all military parties involved at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station allowed the media "behind the blast doors" for a rare, limited tour on Thursday, May 10.
When I say all parties involved, I mean it quickly gets confusing to say who's toiling inside the mountain, between the U.S. forces on site, Canadian allies, and other unnamed groups (for security reasons). The 721st Mission Support Group is technically who hosted us at the alternate strategic command center; remember that in 2008 Peterson Air Force Base took on the primary command center, as it offers much more space for some 1,200 or so daily workers.
Still, the legacy and lore of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex is what continues to captivate people, many of whom are fond of the facility's role in the 1983 film WarGames.
NORAD and USNORTHCOM stand as the sole binational command center in the world (NORAD being composed of both U.S. and Canadian staff; USNORTHCOM being just U.S. military).
"It's the most secure facility in the world, we like to say," says Steve Rose, 721st Mission Support Group Deputy Director, our tour guide.
(Excerpt) Read more at csindy.com ...
It also makes Colorado Springs a bigger target. But, it has to be somewhere and Cheyenne Mountain is a pretty good spot.
Ping.
Seems you may have Vietnam experience...
Here’s some Great 1964 footage testing tactical weapons on F-100 & F-104, as well as introduction of the C-130.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOchuCJ9f4
The Reptilians? I thought they were at the Nellis Annex.
102 or 106?
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It’s an F-102. The F-106 is longer and the air intake for the engine is further back.
That be a 102.
I can tell if I see the vertical stabilizer. 106 is flat, 102 is a point.
Would you like to play a game?
106s are more versatile. They can help out on the farm: melt snow, remove old fence. Been proven years ago on an Iowa farm.
Interesting place. Got to tour it with one of my Comp Sci classes back around 1971 or so.
Those blast doors are massive.
Not TAC. Red was applied to aircraft operating in the north (Alaska, Canada, Iceland) and the Canal Zone.
Cheers...Chris
PAO
4722d SPTS / 722d SUS
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—in my youth as a miner at Climax, I knew guys who worked on the original excavation-—
Front door
inside door!
The simulated missile strike shown was on Japan with what appeared to be tracks back to North Korean launch sites. Since the adults are back in charge this kind of “Hey, just as an FYI, this is what we’re watching for and prepared to respond to” should and is probably intended to send a message to certain parties in Pyongyang who might otherwise think they’re King S*** on Turd Island. “I’ve got a button on my desk too, but mine works” was another.
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