Does this guy want to bring back the EC-121 Super connies?
The EW net in the area back in the 50's was a group of AN/FPS-6 and -16 EW search radars with range out to 450 miles, that put out about 6-megawatt sweeps. The one at Lake Charles, where my old man was stationed, set fire to two ready B-47's (loaded for bear) in fueling accidents before someone realized my old man was right, the a/c were ungrounded and the center beam of the radar, located about two miles from the flight line, was generating big static-electricity potentials every time it swept the a/c. Spark, boom, and a lot of nervous minutes waiting for the all-clear. Then someone would have to go ask Curtis LeMay to ask Congress for a couple of new B-47's to replace the two we'd burned up. The structures for the radar antennae (search and heightfinder) are still there. As is the generator-set's buried fuel-tank battery. The ground is basically quicksand, and the AF discovered that, at decommissioning, they couldn't empty the fuel tanks without their rising out of the ground like submarines. So they were left full.
s The land belongs to McNeese University's ag station now.