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(B2431) writes:
From: Jack

To set the record straight, the real threat of airborne
invasion during the cold war was always from the north, thus NORAD.
Trying to make a couple of aircraft in Cuba sound like a viable threat
is really grasping for straws. However, in the extremely unlikely
event of a couple Cuban aircraft 'invading' the U.S.... Southern
Command and interceptor units out of Florida would have been tasked,
not some champaign unit in Texas. No matter how you attempt to spin it....
George W. Bush was in that unit specifically to
avoid combat.

I have news for you, if a cerdible threat over the polar cap existed some ANG
units would have been federalized and souhern units would have been deployed.

Dan, that, in fact is what happened - The idea that an Air Guard unit
belongs to a particular State has been nonsence since the very
beginning of the AIr Guard - 1947. They're a Reserve Compnent of the
AIr Force. Since 1955, Air Guard Fighter Interceptor Suadrons (As
they were then, Fighter Squadrons now) have been required to maintain
readiness at the same levels as the Active Compnent forces, meet teh
same qualification criteria, and be standing 5-minute alert 24 Hrs/Day
7 Days/Week. They've always been under Air Force orders, vectored by
Air Force controllers. The State has nothing to say about that.
And they were all over the country, as well - most ANG FISs were, in
fact, in Norther Tier states.

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Pete Stickney
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