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What's amazing to me is the amount of effort and expense involved in some of those ruins, and what a short time some of them were in use. I had a distant cousin who moved his family from Tennessee to Anchorage Alaska in a converted city bus back in the 1950's when the Alcan highway was mostly gravel. He worked for many years as a DOD civilian electrician on the remote radar sites known as the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line. That was back when the Strategic Air Command kept nuke-loaded B-47's and B-52's airborne 24/7. All those sites are abandoned now, made obsolete by the ICBM missiles in the 1960's and 70's.
My missile site closed in 1979. It was one of the last if not the last to close. Site Summit
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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What's amazing to me is the amount of effort and expense involved in some of those ruins, and what a short time some of them were in use. I had a distant cousin who moved his family from Tennessee to Anchorage Alaska in a converted city bus back in the 1950's when the Alcan highway was mostly gravel. He worked for many years as a DOD civilian electrician on the remote radar sites known as the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line. That was back when the Strategic Air Command kept nuke-loaded B-47's and B-52's airborne 24/7. All those sites are abandoned now, made obsolete by the ICBM missiles in the 1960's and 70's.
There’s still quite a few of those radar sights still open, but we may be taking two different things. They may only have 2-3 people manning them, but several are still open and operational.
Last edited by Hudge; 01/24/22.
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