Word: usaradcom
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice, hardworking "Pat" Partridge finds himself little more than chef for a batch of alphabet soup, including 1) USAF-ADC, the Air Force's Air Defense Command, 2) USARADCOM, the Army's Air Defense Command, 3) NAVFOR, meaning Naval Forces of the North American Air Defense Command, and 4) RCAF-ADC, the Royal Canadian Air Force home defense unit. NORAD's cumbersome components must answer not only to Partridge, but to their own service Chiefs of Staff...
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