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Offline Sundowner

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NORAD Mountain Complex to go Idle
« on: July 30, 2006, 02:12:50 PM »
I wonder if the Stargate and the SG-1 team will be transfered as well?? :eek:
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Military to Idle NORAD Compound
Operations Will Move to Nearby Base, But Cold War Bunker to Stand Ready

By T.R. Reid
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 29, 2006; Page A02

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 28 -- Facing new enemies in a different kind of war, the Pentagon said Friday that it plans to move out of the famous war room that was built beneath a mountain here in the 1960s with enough concrete to survive a Soviet missile strike.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will transfer surveillance operations from Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, an iconic Cold War venue depicted in such movies as "War Games" and "The Sum of All Fears," to an office building a dozen miles away at Peterson Air Force Base.

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NORAD Mountain Complex to go Idle
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2006, 02:33:40 PM »
Thx ramzey,

Sorry for the double post.

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 02:41:43 PM »
Invest in it now.

Bet they turn it into underground Condos!
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2006, 03:10:59 PM »
Speaking of going idle, hows about buying your own ICBM silo and creating a private house/airstrip?

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