Former Nike Ajax radar control site F-07

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Radar control site of the Fairchild Defense Area Nike Site F-07, "A" Battery (Newkirk Road). This site was partnered with the F-07 launch site (Craig Road) southwest of here. Provided control and guidance to the Nike Ajax missiles.

Built to provide air defense for Fairchild Air Force Base. Staffed by the 43rd Artillery, 1st Missile Battalion of the US Army under Tactical Air Command with headquarters at Geiger Field. It was in operation from 1957 to 1961 whereupon it was decommissioned, though remained in government service.

In 1963, the site became Detachment 1 of the 4000th Aerospace Applications Group, part of the "Defense Meteorological Satellite Program." In 1983, it was redesignated as White Bluff Communications Site under Air Force Space Command. In 1987, it was again redesignated as Spokane Satellite Tracking Site #1.

Today, this site is known as the White Bluffs Joint Personnel Recovery Agency. The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school at Fairchild AFB is overseen from here. More importantly, Americans missing in foreign countries are tracked from here. Work here is done in cooperation with the FBI, CIA, DEA, DOD and other governmental agencies.

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Coordinates:   47°42'10"N   117°34'38"W

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