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The SAGE system was a network linking Air Force (and later FAA) General Surveillance Radar stations into a centralized center for Air Defense, intended to provide early warning and response for a Soviet nuclear attack. The Ground Air Transmitting Receiving (GATR) Site (R-18) for communications was located at approximately 1.1 miles souh-southwest from the SAGE building. Normally the GATR site was connected by a pair of buried telephone cables, with a backup connection of dual telephone cables overhead.
DC-18 was initially under the San Francisco Air Defense Sector (SFADS), established on 15 February 1959. DC-18 and the SFADS was inactivated on 1 August 1963 as part of an ADC consolidation and reorganization, with its assigned units assigned to other ADC Sectors. The GATR was reassigned to Mill Valley AFS (Z-38) as an annex designated OL-A, 666th Radar Squadron. Today the large SAGE building is now building 2145, housing the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron; the GATR was inactivated in 1980 and the building is now part of a Skeet-shooting range.
Best Friends I do not remember all the people that I considered as friends, most were the people that I worked with Daily.
Best Moment Passing the 7 level test, which opened the prospect of being Promoted
Worst Moment Finding out that I would be going TDY to Iceland Nov.1968 Dec.1968 Jan.1969, This was to be my first Christmas in three years to be with my Family, now we would be seperated again.
Other Memories Being told to write a bad report on one of my suborinates, for his bad behavior while he was off duty. This was one of the hardest things that I ever had to do.
