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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | The 176th Air Control Squadron (176 ACS) is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard 176th Wing located at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. From a secure, high-tech facility on Elmendorf Air Force Base, the men and women of this 176th Wing unit keep continous watch on the skies over North America. The squadron provides mission-ready personnel to operate and maintain the Alaskan Region Air Operations Center (RAOC) of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). It integrates fixed and airborne radar into the NORAD Global Command and Control System (NGCCS), and conducts 24-hour Alaskan NORAD Region (ANR) and Eleventh Air Force (11th AF) air sovereignty and theater air control operations. The 176th Air Control Squadron is unique amongst the other American sectors in that it controls the only sector within its region, while the Eastern Air Defense Sector and Western Air Defense Sector both comprise the Continental NORAD Region (CONR). In addition to this distinction, it is the only sector that has regular reported intercepts of foreign military aircraft, with multiple intercepts of Russian Tu-95 "Bear" aircraft through its lifetime. |
| Front Description : | Unit logo |
| Back Description : | Grizzly bear |
| Diameter | 41.00 mm |
| Material | -I do not know- |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
