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Thank you, too!

I was at Cheyenne Mountain for my first duty station. I left there in October of 1979 and headed out to the Pave Paws radar station on Cape Cod at Otis AFB then. It was shortly after I arrived that Jimmuh killed ADCOM. I still have my ADCOM patches. SAC took over our mission and never understood it. I left Otis for Woomera in 82 which was also acting as a misunderstood SAC base. Shortly after-wards, Spacecom took over and things got a lot better.

You're right about Jimmuh. I was home watching a football game on that Sunday in November of 79 when our embassy was taken. I told my family I had to get back to the base that minute. They asked why? I told them an Embassy is considered the soil of its nation and this was a direct attack on America, so we were at war. However, for the next 444 days we played paper tiger with these guys. That, as you so eloquently put, brought forth Islamic terrorism against this country. Thanks, Jimmuh!