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Date of Passing Jul 09, 2010
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Last Known Activity:
Retired 1971
Other Comments:
USN 1949-1961
USAF 1961-1971
Was TV Serviceman for Sears from 1971 to 1975
Was Electronics Instructor at Willmar Vo-Teck from 1975 to 1976
Owned and operated my own TV sales and Service store from 1976 to 1979.
Was District Manager for AAA from 1979 to 1991 at which time I retired for good.
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.
