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Thomasville Air Force Station

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radar was installed for evaluation. It was the first of the large radars to be deployed, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on
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The 698th Radar Squadron was inactivated on 30 September 1969 and Thomasville AFS was closed due to a draw-down of ADC and budget constraints. After its closure, the site was the location of the Thomasville Mental Health & Rehabilitation Center, and Alabama Department of Youth Services.
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The 698th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron moved to Thomasville on 1 September 1958 when a test model of the
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Mobile Radar program. On 20 October 1953, ADC requested a third phase of twenty-five radar sites be constructed.
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implemented an improvised missile warning system directed toward the Cuban missile threat called
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General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 1.9 miles (3.1 km) north-northwest of
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The Ground Air Transmitting Receiving (GATR) Site for communications was located at
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Thomasville Air Force Station came into existence as part of Phase III of the
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List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations
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Closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station
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Thomasville Air Force Station (ADC ID: TM-197, NORAD ID: Z-197)
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However, the former closed completely by November 2003.
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height-finder radars were added in the early 1960s.
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(1980). 727: 8: 3170:Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons 697:Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., 509:698th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron 490:Today the former radar site is used by the 18:698th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron 3522:Military installations established in 1959 3195: 2088: 1261: 759: 734: 720: 712: 93: 80:Learn how and when to remove this message 437:(SAGE) system, feeding data to DC-09 at 369: 43:This article includes a list of general 3507:Semi-Automatic Ground Environment sites 588: 139: 3175:Aircraft Control and Warning Squadrons 3527:Military installations closed in 1969 7: 641:Air Force Historical Research Agency 152:Location of Thomasville AFS, Alabama 3481:General Surveillance Radar Stations 707:Information for Thomasville AFS, AL 3475:Air Defense Command Emblem Gallery 492:Alabama Southern Community College 49:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 3537:1969 disestablishments in Alabama 561:, 1 April 1966 – 31 December 1969 435:Semi Automatic Ground Environment 1248: 742: 635: This article incorporates 630: 433:In 1959, Thomasville joined the 232: 138: 131: 99: 34: 3092:Aircraft Control & Warning 498:Air Force units and assignments 383:the unit's radar scopes. 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Thomasville, Alabama
Thomasville AFS is located in Alabama
31°56′14″N 087°45′03″W / 31.93722°N 87.75083°W / 31.93722; -87.75083 (Thomasville AFS TM-197)
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31°56′27″N 087°44′18″W / 31.94083°N 87.73833°W / 31.94083; -87.73833 (Thomasville AS GATR)
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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