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 Cheyenne Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheyenne Mountain, a mountain located on the south side of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the location of a major United States military command base: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS), formerly called Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC).
The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center shield includes both stars and maple leaves, symbolizing that NORAD is a joint USA/Canada mission to protect North America.
Missile warning and air sovereignty were the primary missions in the Mountain throughout the 1960s and 70s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Air_Station

  
 Inside Cheyenne Mountain - Citadel In The Rockies
But the folks at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, men and women from the U.S. and Canadian military services who run the operations center for the North American Air Defense Command, the Air Force Space Command and the U.S. Space Command, are not satisfied.
Officials at Cheyenne Mountain, who make it clear that they only assimilate information about missile launches and pass it on to superiors to decide a U.S. response, are blunt about their wishes.
The Cheyenne Mountain center, which sits on 1,319 springs each weighing 1,000 pounds to cushion personnel and equipment in event of a bomb blast or an earthquake, set up shop in 1966 at a cost of $142 million (it would cost $18 billion today).
www.geocities.com /marksrealm/bases066.html

  
 NORAD article - NORAD United States Canadian August 1957 aircraft missiles President - What-Means.com
The CINC is based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado with the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, the central collection and coordination facility for the sensor systems around the world, nearby.
Both Canadian and U.S. forces have a commander for their contingents at Cheyenne Mountain.
By the early 1970s, the acceptance of MAD led to a cut in the air defense budget and the repositioning of NORAD's mission to ensuring the integrity of air space during peacetime.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/NORAD

  
 foundation
Cheyenne Mountain AFS is home to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command.
Besides the familiar regular Air Force Academy at the northern edge of Colorado Springs, there is an additional secret Military Astronaut Academy, sequestered within the mountain immediately adjacent to the regular Academy.
While not at Colorado Springs, Buckley Air Force Base in the Denver suburb of Aurora is the largest consolidated intelligence base in the Western Hemisphere for joint use of the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Security Agency (NSA).
www.geocities.com /goldeneaglevideo/goldeneaglestar11.11.htm

  
 Clear AFS
Clear Air Station's mechanical BMEWS radar was deactivated on February 1, 2001, and replaced with a new phased-array radar, the SSPAR which will not only double the coverage of the 13th SWS's missile warning and space surveillance missions, but also increase its capability for tracking objects in space.
Air Force personnel are assigned to operations, security police, fire department, and squadron staff functions.
The squadron is assigned to the 21st Space Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. Clear, along with radar units at Thule Air Base, Greenland, and Fylingdales-Moor, United Kingdom, comprise the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/clear.htm

  
 Experience Colorado Springs Peterson Air Force Base & Cheyenne Mountain Air Station
Peterson Air Force Base & Cheyenne Mountain Air Station
The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, in a hollowed-out mountain southwest of downtown Colorado Springs, houses the "nerve centers" that would sound the first alarm of an airborn, missile, or space attack against North America.
Peterson AFB and Cheyenne Mountain AS (as of Sept. 2000):
www.coloradosprings-travel.com /travel.asp?pageid=525169

  
 Cheyenne Mountain Complex
The Cheyenne Mountain complex is one of five military bases in the Colorado Springs area, and was originally intended to coordinate American response to a global nuclear war.
The main entrance to Cheyenne Mountain is a tunnel nicknamed 'The Bat Cave' which is lined with over 115,000 'rock bolts' varying in length from 6 to 36 feet, designed to prevent the tunnel from collapsing.
Cheyenne Mountain is thought to be the largest and most complex command and controlled network on Earth.
www.stargategalaxy.fsnet.co.uk /complex.html

  
 Cheyenne Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheyenne Mountain, a mountain located on the south side of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the location of a major United States military command base: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS), formerly called Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC).
The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center shield includes both stars and maple leaves, symbolizing that NORAD is a joint USA/Canada mission to protect North America.
Missile warning and air sovereignty were the primary missions in the Mountain throughout the 1960s and 70s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain

  
 Air Force Space Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air Force Space Command makes space reliable to the warfighter by continuously improving the command's ability to provide and support combat forces — assuring their access to space.
Air Force Space Command ( AFSPC) is a major command of the U.S. Air Force with headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
AFSPC is the Air Force's largest operator of UH-1N and HH-1H Huey helicopters, responsible for missile operations support and security.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AFSPC

  
 Air Force Space Command
AFSPC bases and stations include: Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Schriever and Peterson AFBs and Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colo.; Onizuka AS and Vandenberg AFB, CA; Cape Canaveral AS and Patrick AFB, FL; Cavalier AS, ND; F.E. Warren AFB, WY; Malmstrom AFB, MT; Clear AS, AK; Thule AB, Greenland; and Woomera AS, Australia.
Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), created September 1, 1982, is one of nine Air Force major commands, and is headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, CO. Missile warning and space operations were combined to form Air Force Space Command in 1982, the same year NASA launched the first space shuttle.
Air Force Space Command brings space to the warfighter by continuously improving the command's ability to provide and support combat forces -- assuring their access to space.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/agency/afspc.htm

  
 Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colorado
Twenty journalists from the New York Foreign Press Center spent the morning of May 1 at Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, outside of Colorado Springs.
Cheyenne Mountain, with its miles of tunnels, huge blast doors, spring-supported rooms, superb briefers and high-tech tracking equipment provided enough material for everyone.
Foreign Journalists inside the Command Center at Cheyenne Mountain
fpc.state.gov /fpc/20318.htm

  
 Air Force Link - BRIGADIER GENERAL DUANE W. DEAL
Duane W. Deal is Commander, Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo. He is responsible for executing the North American Aerospace Defense Command's integrated tactical warning and attack assessment mission, the U.S. Northern Command's homeland defense mission, and U.S. Strategic Command's space and missile warning support.
General Deal entered the Air Force in 1976 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program.
Having been a president or member of a dozen aircraft and space launch accident investigations, he served as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, convened hours after the loss of the space shuttle on Feb. 1, 2003.
www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=7777

  
 cheyenne mountain operations center
… Operations Center The operational unit at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS) is commonly referred to as the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center.
… Command Center: The Command Center is the heart of operations in Cheyenne Mountain.
… All key operational requirements were met and Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center operators were pleased with Granite Sentry.
www.bluemountainschool.org /cheyenne-mountain-operations-center.html

  
 CNN - Boredom, punctuated by terror: the real 'War Games' - April 20, 1999
When you think of Cheyenne Mountain, you probably conjure up the same image I did: a cavernous place replete with DEFCON warning lights, wailing Klaxons, red phones, ominous PA announcements issued by an eerily impersonal voice, heavily armed MPs with suspicious glares and a lot of top Air Force brass wearing blue suits and medals.
But when I asked our guide, Air Force Col. Gary Shugart, if Cheyenne could withstand a direct hit by a nuke, his simple, candid response was "no." But their job here -- to confirm the attack and notify the president-- should be done by then.
I came down from the mountain very impressed with the dedication and professionalism of the men and women who work there -- albeit slightly underwhelmed by the facility.
www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9904/20/downlinks

  
 Air Force chief of staff will appear on sci-fi series
Working closely with the Air Force, the show was granted permission to film exterior footage at the North American Aerospace Defense Command complex at Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to serve as the main entrance to the Stargate facility.
The show, about a top-secret Air Force project that enables humans to travel around the universe through a portal called the Stargate, appealed to Ryan's sense of wonder.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael E. Ryan appears with Richard Dean Anderson on the Feb. 2 episode of "Stargate SG-1." (Courtesy photo)
www.af.mil /news/Jan2001/n20010126_0115.asp

  
 Re: GOES-9 Satellite UFO Images & NORAD Alert
Public tours of the manmade cavern deep inside Cheyenne Mountain - the nerve center of U.S. and Canadian air defense and space surveillance - were suspended Wednesday and additional security barriers were installed outside the facility.
The Cheyenne Mountain complex, which was built in the early 1960s to withstand a direct hit from a nuclear weapon, employees 1,100 U.S. and Canadian military and civilian personnel.
The official ``threat condition'' that tells Cheyenne Mountain workers the degree of security threat was posted as ``normal.'' Outside the main entrance, which looks down on nearby Colorado Springs, an extra pop-up steel barrier to stop intruding vehicles was installed, and three concrete barriers were placed in a zigzag pattern at a security check point.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1997/apr/m17-033.shtml

  
 Base Arrival Info
The men and women of the 21st Space Wing, Team 21, work throughout the Colorado Springs area in what is known as the Peterson Complex—Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Station—as well as 26 locations in 4 countries around the globe.
Concealed weapons permits issued by civil authorities are not valid on Peterson Air Force Base without the expressed written approval of the 21st Space Wing commander.
Peterson Air Force Base is adjacent to and east of Colorado Springs off U.S. Highway 24.
www.peterson.af.mil /21sw/peterson/base_arrival/base_arrival.htm

  
 Buckley AFB
The Air Guar's first-term ownership quickly came to an end when the Department of the Navy took charge in 1947, renaming the installation Naval Air Station-Denver, CO. It was during this postwar era that five veteran villages were built on Buckley to help ease the housing shortage created by the war.
The Navy decomissioned denver's Naval Air Station on June 30, 1959, and it once again became the property of the Air Force, which licensed it to the state of Colorado.
As the army Air Corps approached full strength in 1944, additional training requirements diminished, bringing about a gradual decline in personnel throughout 1945, When the war ended, Buckley became an auxiliary field for Lowry, which in turn transferred it to the Colorado Air National Guard in 1946.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/buckley.htm

  
 Spring Air - AskTheBrain.com
Cheyenne Mountain Air Station is an underground city in a hollowed out mountain on the southwest edge of Colorado Springs.
The center is located outside Colorado Springs at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base.
They are uniquely available to the Air Museum because of the splendid and healthy weather in Palm Springs that also draws millions of tourists to the region each year.
www.askthebrain.com /air_spring-.html

  
 Space Command
Cheyenne Mountain Air Station is home to a network of military organizations that scan the skies above North America and the world, searching for threats against American citizens and the U.S. armed forces.
The military hollowed out the inside of Cheyenne Mountain in the 1960s to house personnel and equipment, whose purpose was to monitor the skies for missile or air attack.
The GPP is a multi-media presentation that includes a brief history of Cheyenne Mountain, the facilities inside the mountain, and missions of CMOC.
www.public-action.com /911/norad-spacecommand

  
 DefenseLINK News: Community Leaders Tour Cheyenne Mountain Facility
Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station hosts four commands: the North American Aerospace Defense Command, Air Force Space Command, U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Northern Command, the newest combatant command, stood up after the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Civilian leaders participating in JCOC 69, the Defense Department's latest Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, went deep inside Cheyenne Mountain here May 1 to tour the facility and learn how American airspace is being protected from attack.
Next, the JCOC participants toured the Air Warning Center, where huge electronic maps demonstrated how the various radar-warning systems track internal and external threats, and the CMOC - Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center - depicted in the movie "War Games."
www.defenselink.mil /news/May2005/20050506_926.html

  
 21st Space Wing (21st SW)
The wing's 721st Support Group is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of facilities and equipment in Cheyenne Mountain Air Station.
The 5th Space Warning Squadron at Woomera Air Station, Australia, is unique among 21st Space Wing units because it is assigned with the Australian 1st Joint Communications Squadron at the Joint Defense Facility in nearby Nurrungar.
It is the Air Force's only organization responsible for providing missile warning and space control to unified commanders and combat forces worldwide.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usspc-fs/21sw.htm

  
 Cheyenne Mountain Complex - United States Nuclear Forces
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex (CMC) outside Colorado Springs, CO is the main correlation center of the Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) system.
Cheyenne Mountain is the command, control, communication and intelligence center for coordinating and controlling North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) missions.
By Phil Patton Wired 7.11 - Nov 1999 "Cheyenne Mountain is one of the truly mythic locales of the modern era," says John Pike, a policy analyst at the Federation of American Scientists who tracks nuclear-defense issues.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/c3i/cmc.htm

  
 North American Aerospace Defense Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The commander is based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado with the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, the central collection and coordination facility for the sensor systems around the world, nearby.
Cheyenne Mountain was one of the settings of the 1983 motion picture WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick as a teenager that hacked NORAD's main computer and almost started a nuclear war.
Both Canadian and U.S. forces have a commander for their contingents at Cheyenne Mountain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NORAD

  
 InformationWeek > PC Blades > Norad Turns To PC Blades For Security And Savings > April 18, 2005
The introduction of hundreds of PC blades at the North American Aerospace Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station has produced savings of about $1.6 million a year.
The use of PC blades in the command center has allowed the Cheyenne station to complete a redesign with new acoustical capabilities.
A user in the command center at the station may be required to operate with as many as five different PC networks to collect and disseminate information for both U.S. and Canadian defense intelligence, and through both classified and unclassified communication lines.
www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160902018

  
 AFROTC Detachment 910
Executive Officer, 721st Support Group, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, CO (Apr 99 - May 00)
Captain Pastewait is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 910, at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
He teaches the senior level class entitled "National Security Affairs and Preparation for Active Duty." He is also the Detachment Executive Officer.
depts.washington.edu /afrotc/cadre/pastewait.shtml

  
 Colorado Springs Real Estate - Homes for Sale - Houses for Rent
Enjoy the spectacular views of Cheyenne Mountain from this bright and airy 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2.5 garage, two story home located on a large corner lot in Cheyenne Meadows.
D20 Schools and close to Peterson AFB, Air Force Academy, and Cheyenne Mountain.
Situated on the highest ridgeline in Colorado Springs, the views of Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, and the Sangre De Cristo mountains are amazing from the living room bay window...
www.militarybyowner.com /Find_A_Home/colorado/colorado_springs/colorado_springs_real_estate.htm

  
 Cheyenne Mountain Getting Spruced Up
"We get the job done all the time regardless, but it's certainly going to make getting that job done a much more positive experience." The Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, consisting of 15 buildings inside the mountain where about 800 people work, serves NORAD and Northern Command.
The $13 million project will double the size of the 540 square- foot command center, which is part of the larger Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center.
Information on weather, air traffic, missile launches and objects orbiting Earth flow into the command center, which gives it to the appropriate U.S. and Canadian agencies.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2004/jan/m27-013.shtml

  
 Mutilations near Cheyenne Mountain [a.c.a51]
The purpose of this fortress inside a mountain is to detect and analyze everything entering or crossing U.S. air space." The celebrated Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is situated to the north of the mountain.
Noting the impressive display of technology in the vicinity, Frederick Smith writes: "The capstone of all this, and ultimately of all U.S. military muscle is Ent Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain, the head- quarters for NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) and the Canadian Air Defense Command...
Many of the carcasses appear to have been dropped from the air.
www.ufomind.com /misc/1998/jan/d20-008.shtml

  
 Air Force Link - LIEUTENANT GENERAL THOMAS L. BAPTISTE
He has held various leadership positions, and has commanded a fighter squadron, operations group and the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo.
General Baptiste entered the Air Force in 1973 after completing Officer Training School.
As the Deputy Chairman, General Baptiste regularly represents the Military Committee at high level meetings, such as the North Atlantic Council, Defense Planning Committee, NATO-Russia Council and the Nuclear Planning Group, providing informed military advice to Alliance political authorities.
www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=4599

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