On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:16:38 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote in
:

Agreed. *But NORAD's response time also highlighted how porous our
air

defenses had become with the post-Cold War draw-down in our Air
Force.

ah, Jay, NORAD never ever had the mission of looking inside our
borders un
til
AFTER 9/11. *NORAD didn't have the radar feeds necessary to look
across the NAS.

It's not the radar detection (or lack thereof) that raised eyebrows --
it was the inability to scramble *any* aircraft in a timely fashion
once the attack was acknowledged.

If that attack *had* been waves of bombers coming over the north pole,
America would have been defenseless.


you're as big an iiot as Anthony is.


Bertie
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Bertie

I spent 15 years in the Air Defense Command and we furnished thousands
of fighters to NORAD for operations. Any aircraft we had on NORAD
alert were ARMED (including NUCLEAR Air to air Rocket with a Pk of
almost 100% that was test fired over a group (some friends of
mine)standing in the open at ground zero). Listening to the arm chair
experts on this news group who may have soloed a GA I have refrained
myself from trying to outline the old and current NORAD operations.

They wouldn't believe me so why try to educate them on the where's and
why's of the real world.

Keep on trying to keep the dishonest, honest Bertie.


Big John