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...rickety, World War II fighters at Long Island's Mitchell Air Force Base on 24-hour alert against the threat of an attack by Soviet intercontinental bombers. Both the threat and the alert have proved to be enduring. This week the U.S. Air Defense Command (ADC) rounds out 15 years of continuous, round-the-clock alert status-and it has come a long way from the time when P47 Thunderbolts and F-51 Mustangs were among the hottest items in its inventory...
...those days," recalls an ADC officer, "we were begging and borrowing whatever we could." Except for a few F-86s, the ADC had no interceptors or all-weather fighters. Its radar system included many "lash-up" sites, so called because the radar was literally lashed to the tops of telephone poles. Where there were gaps in the radar coverage, a Ground Observer Corps of housewives and farmers, gas station attendants and even commuters stood ready to phone in aircraft sightings...
From such patchwork beginnings, the ADC has evolved into a 100,000-man force with $8 billion worth of equipment, a $1 billion-a-year budget and 1,500,000 miles of communications circuits. The largest component of the multiservice North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs, ADC is commanded by Lieut. General Herbert B. Thatcher, who flew one of the F-51s at Mitchell 15 years ago. Its major missions...
...Children program. Critics complain that the program encourages loose women to increase the monthly check by reproducing as often as possible. Whether this is true or not, there is certainly some chiseling. Some men leave home or are sent packing by their women so their families can qualify for ADC support...
Canada. Six Air Force bases- two SAC, four ADC. Also, a Navy station at Argentia, Nfld...