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	North American Aerospace Defense Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The facility is hosted by the U.S. Air Force, under the command of the 721st Mission Support Group [1], part of the 21st Space Wing [2], headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base.
		The commander is based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado with Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, the central collection and coordination facility for the sensor systems around the world, nearby.
		The Commission was forced to use subpoenas to obtain the cooperation of the NORAD and FAA to release evidence such as audiotapes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norad (1943 words)

	The Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Established in 1957 to serve personnel at Ent Air Force Base and Peterson Field (now Peterson Air Force Base), Ent Federal is now a community credit union, and, with assets of nearly $1.6 billion, is the largest financial institution in the greater Colorado Springs area.
		While Ent Federal is also among the 30 largest credit unions in the nation, its focus is local, with a mission to improve quality of life for its members by providing quality services and supporting community events.
		Ent Federal has 18 locations and offers membership to all who live, work, worship, or attend school in El Paso and Teller counties, or are affiliated with Buckley Air Force Base.
	www.coloradospringschamber.org /site/site/about/pcon.shtml?pro=ent (233 words)

	Peterson AFB
		On 22 June 1942 Colorado Springs Army Air Base was assigned to the 2d Air Force, headquartered at Fort George Wright, Washington.
		From 5 March to 1 October 1943, "Peterson Field" as the base was commonly called, was assigned to the 3d Air Force, headquartered at Greenville Army Air Base, South Carolina.
		Subsequently, on 1 April 1975, the Air Force redesignated the wing as the 46th Aerospace Defense Wing.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/peterson.htm (660 words)

	About Us: History -
		Ent was chartered in 1957 to serve military and civilian personnel assigned to Ent Air Force Base and Peterson Field (now Peterson Air Force Base) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
		Ent and Ent Air Force Base were both named for Major General Uzal Girard Ent, commander of the Ninth Air Force during World War II.
		Today, Ent is a community-chartered credit union offering membership to all who live, work, worship, or attend school in El Paso, Teller, Pueblo, and Denver counties or in zip codes 80010, 80012, 80018, and 80019, and those affiliated with Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.
	www.entfederal.com /about/history.asp (137 words)

	Strategic Air Defense - United States Nuclear Forces
		The continental air defense mission evolved during the Cold War to detect and intercept Soviet bombers attacking North America via the North Pole.
		The Canada East and Canada West Sector Air Operations Centers (SAOCs) were consolidated at Canadian Forces Base North Bay in 1994, and the Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters is scheduled to move to Winnipeg in 1997 as part of the restructuring of Canada's operational air forces into a single operational headquarters.
		The operational concept for strategic air defense is to maintain constant surveillance, warning, and attack capability for defense of the North American continent and maintenance of air sovereignty.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/systems/airdef-overview.htm (1725 words)

	Navy Air Defence
		The armed services, especially the Air Force, were reluctant to endorse such an ambitious project, due to its cost; its demands would compete with other budget priorities at a time when newly elected President Dwight Eisenhower was making clear his intent to hold the line on defense spending.
		Barrier was to become operational, however, the Air Force notified the Navy that its new radar stations in Greenland were not ready and that the Atlantic Barrier would have to remain in operation for another month.
		By 1965, improvements in Air Force shore-based air surveillance radars, in conjunction with accurate and reassuring intelligence on the Soviet bomber threat, had eliminated the need for an active Navy role in continental air defense.
	www.dean-boys.com /551aew/navy_air_defence.htm (10679 words)

	Cheyenne Mountain and the NORAD Complex
		In early 1979, the Air Force established a Space Defense Operations Center to counter the emerging Soviet anti-satellite threat.
		Air Force Space Command formed the Space Combat Operations staff which absorbed control of the space/missile warning activities in Cheyenne Mountain.
		The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center provides warning of ballistic missile or air attacks against North America, assists the air sovereignty mission for the United States and Canada, and, if necessary, is the focal point for air defense operations to counter enemy bombers or cruise missiles.
	members.fortunecity.com /groom51/norad.html (1720 words)

	When does "Air Force base" have a capital "B"?
		The term Air National Guard base (instead of Air Force base) is used for Air Force bases which are used exclusively by the Air National Guard (ANG).
		The term Air National Guard station instead of Air Force station is used for Air Force Stations which are used exclusively by the Air National Guard.
		Some "Air Force Stations" were spared from the redesignation fracas; St Louis AFS MO is one example, others included radar stations that were already programmed to close.
	www.airforcebase.net /usaf/capitalb.html (1677 words)

	Kenneth Crawford Dempster,Major General, United States Air Force
		General Dempster was awarded the Air Medal for low-level attacks in Kiska Harbor in September 1942 where he sank a Japanese freighter.
		In January 1945 he was assigned to Headquarters Ninth Air Force in Europe where he was chief of combat operations and then deputy for operations and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
		In September 1964 he was transferred to Headquarters U.S. Air Force as deputy director of operational requirements in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Programs and Requirements, and assumed duties as director in July 1966.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /kcdempster.htm (906 words)

	List of United States Air Force installations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of U.S. Air Force bases and airfields, both current and past.
		Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado (closed)
		Olmsted Air Force Base, Pennsylvania (closed 1969, presently Harrisburg International Airport and Air Reserve Base for PA Air Guard)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_U.S._Air_Force_bases (1122 words)

	Biographies : LIEUTENANT GENERAL BRUCE K. BROWN
		General Brown transferred to Hahn Air Base, Germany, where he served with the 496th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron as a pilot and flight commander, executive officer and finally as chief of maintenance, from January 1959 to January 1963.
		He then returned to the United States and joined Air Defense Command headquarters at Ent Air Force Base, Colo., as a personnel officer in the Rated Assignments Branch and later as aide to the commander of Air Defense Command.
		Upon his return to the United States in November 1970, General Brown was assigned as vice commander of the 97th Bombardment Wing at Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark., and took command of the wing in July 1971.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=4806 (750 words)

	CUFON(SM) 4602d AISS UNIT HISTORY SAMPLER (Part 1 of 7) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although Air Base Commanders are responsible for all crashed aircraft within their areas,[1] it was found that they had no capability for examination of enemy equipment.
		Acceptance of this regulation was received from Headquarters, Air Defense Command at the close of this reporting period and its publication as Air Defense Command regulation 24-4 was to be effected 3 January 1953.
		Air defense force and air division (defense) commanders, or their representatives are authorized to provide letters of introduction to of detachments or flights of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, within their area of responsibility, in order to facilitate liaison with local governmental and civilian agencies.
	www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk /4602smpl1.htm (5654 words)

	CUFON(SM) 4602d AISS UNIT HISTORY SAMPLER (Part 2 of 7)
		Some is done through special Air Force Schools, some in conjunction with the Army, and those unique courses which cannot be found in the regular curricula are taught in the Squadron Headquarters.
		The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron is a Table of Distribution Unit allocated to the Air Defense Command by Headquarters USAF for the specific purpose of performing the mission set forth in paragraph 3, above.
		Air defense force and air division (defense) commanders, or their representatives are authorized
	www.cufon.org /cufon/4602smpl2.htm (4316 words)

	General Lucius D. Clay Jr US Air Force Military Biographies - Find Articles
		He is responsible for air defense of the North American continent, for global aerospace surveillance and warning assessment of hostile attack from space.
		General Clay was assigned as vice commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces, from February 1970 to September 1970 when he assumed command of Seventh Air Force with headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Republic of Vietnam.
		As Seventh Air Force commander, he was responsible for all Air Force combat air strike, air support and air defense operations in mainland Southeast Asia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8569556 (632 words)

	Joe McCusker's Air Force Base List
		The base was then looked after by the 166-person 2226th Standby Base Squadron, and later by a much smaller fire guard, until June 30, 1950, when the New York District Engineer assumed custody of the property and Slocum AFB ceased to exist.
		Air Force Times reported that the base would protect the "vital industrial Mahoning Valley." The story added that General Benjamin Chidlaw, ADC Commander, told a banquet audience the evening before that, "the district was selected for a fighter base for economic and strategic reason, and not because it might be a target."
		Air Force installations overseas exist through a variety of means, often resulting from negotiations that conclude with a treaty between the host country and the United States.
	www.airforcebase.net /usaf/joeslist.html (5898 words)

	Historical Report For 5004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, Anchorage, Alaska
		An administrative visit was made by the squadron commander during September 1954 to headquarters USAF, Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and to the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, Ent Air Force Base.
		The odd find was loaded aboard and transported back to Ladd Air Force Base where personnel of the 5004th Air Intelligence detachment made a thorough study and investigation of the Japanese balloon-carried bomb.
		Lauding the cooperation and flying proficiency of the 74th Air Rescue Squadron, Hale said, without the use of the 'copter, the only other way of recovering the balloon would have been by river boat, a slow and long drawn out process.
	www.enter.net /~kiddycar/5004aiss-5.html (1600 words)

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		(UP) - The Air Force agreed today to return a meteorite to a 31-year-old housewife who was badly bruised when the 10-pound object crashed through the roof of her home.
		Hewlett Hodges just as soon as the Air Defense Command completes tests on it. He said the Air Force had no intention of entering into a controversy over it.
		The Maxwell spokesman said the object was sent to Ent Air Force Base at Colorado Springs, Colo., for further tests. He explained that the Air Defense Command was interested in all unusual objects that fall from the sky and wished to make complete tests on the meteorite.
	www.meteoritearticles.com /znp12021954on.html (139 words)

	General James V. Hartinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The general also is a graduate of Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., in 1955 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., in 1966.
		Returning to Williams AFB in July 1953, he served as a gunnery instructor and then transferred to Stewart Air Force Base, N.Y., in August 1954 as a fighter pilot and air operations officer in the 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron.
		From July 1975 to June 1978, General Hartinger was Commander of the Tactical Air Command's 9th Air Force with headquarters at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. He next took command of Tactical Air Command's 12th Air Force, at Bergstrom AFB, Texas.
	www.peterson.af.mil /hqafspc/history/hartinger.htm (1066 words)

	Current News: Retired Air Force General to Speak to Cadets, Southeast Missouri State University
		During his tenure as general, McKee was commander in chief of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Command, a military command consisting of United States and Canadian air defense forces with headquarters at the former Ent Air Force Base in Colorado.
		NORAD was responsible for air defense of the North American continent.
		McKee had operational command of all U.S. and Canadian strategic aerospace defense forces and was responsible for global aerospace surveillance and warning assessment of hostile attack from space.
	www.semo.edu /news/index_7474.htm (257 words)

	CIA PILOT MELE VOJVODICH, JR., Member Roadrunners Internationale
		From August 1950 to July 1952, General Vojvodich was an F-84 pilot and aircraft commander at Turner Air Force Base, Ga. His next tour of duty was in South Korea as an F-80 and F-86 pilot, and operations officer for the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron.
		The general was an operations officer for the 4520th Combat Crew Training Group at Nellis Air Force Base from July 1960 until February 1963.
		He was initially assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel at Air Force headquarters in August 1980 as director of manpower and organization.
	roadrunnersinternationale.com /vojvodich.html (1110 words)

	Brigadier General Roscoe C. Crawford Jr US Air Force Military Biographies - Find Articles
		Brigadier General Roscoe Campbell Crawford Jr., is director of operations, North American Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colo. The directorate provides policy guidance on the use of air and space defense weapons systems, and directs operation of available air defense forces and systems by all units of the international command.
		In 1944 he went to the Thirteenth Air Force in Guadalcanal as director of combat operations and served there, in New Guinea and the Philippines.
		His next assignment was at Air Training Command, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., as director of training analysis and development.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8572538 (496 words)

	CUFON(SM) 4602d AISS UNIT HISTORY SAMPLER (Part 5 of 7)
		As a final reminder, I call your attention to the provision of the new Air Force Regulation 200-2, in which the policy of USAF is clearly expresses concerning information releases in connection with the investigation of unidentified flying objects.
		USAF 4175A former commanding officer of the 6004th AISS in the Far East was assigned to the Air Defense Command in July, 1952 as commander of the newly organized 4602d AISS at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
		Air Force Regulation 200-2 provides guidance for UFOB investigations and contains UFOB report format and should be used in conjunction with this regulation.
	www.cufon.org /cufon/4602smpl5.htm (5610 words)

	Hanes
		He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in October 1938, completed flying school at Kelly Field, Texas, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve in August 1939.
		He was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, in July 1949, where he served in the Directorate of Research and Development as Chief of the Air Defense Division.
		He returned to the United States in July 1961 and was assigned as assistant chief of staff, plans, Headquarters Air Defense Command, at Ent Air Force Base, Colo. He was reassigned as commander of the 9th Aerospace Defense Division in July 1964.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/hanes.htm (746 words)

	Biographies : MAJOR GENERAL LARRY N. TIBBETTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		General Tibbetts was born in 1934, in Trenton, Mo., and spent his junior high and high school years in Plymouth, Ind. He received a bachelor's degree in English and speech from DePauw University in 1956 and a master's degree in public administration from The George Washington University in 1968.
		Upon his return to the United States in May 1970, he was assigned to the Interceptor Division, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Studies and Analysis, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., where he planned and conducted studies dealing with employment of interceptors for strategic defense of the United States.
		He was assigned to Air Force headquarters in March 1983 as director of manpower and organization in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower and Personnel.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=7389 (543 words)

	Oris Baker Johnson, Major General, United States Force
		After the war he was assigned to the Tactical Air Command, and in July 1946 was transferred to Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
		General Johnson was assigned in August 1947 to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, where he served in the Fighter Branch and later as chief of the Air Defense Division.
		In August 1957 General Johnson was reassigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force and served in the Directorate of Operations and as chief, Weapons Systems Division in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Air Defense Systems.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /objohnson.htm (521 words)

	Nike Sites of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Glossary
		From 1957 to 1971 the field artillery and air defense artillery components of the Army
		The combined (with the Royal Canadian Air Force) command responsible for North American theater air defense.
		The branch of the Air Force responsible for ICBM and strategic
	ed-thelen.org /J-McGrath/NGLOSS.HTM (539 words)

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