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Old May 11th 18, 01:14 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Iran and GPS etc

The US military built, owns, and controls it, but the user base has kind of gotten out of hand.

They might could turn it off any time they want once, but it might be a career limiting event.

If they caused a wide outage without a good reason, there would be a political backlash from the number of folks that paid for it being inconvenienced or worse.