AT&T "Hagerstown 2" Project Office

 military, Cold War 1947-1991, telecommunication, bunker, microwave tower / microwave transmission, tropospheric scatter station

Terminal station on the AT&T Long Lines Project Office chain of troposcatter communications stations, the Hagerstown or HAG2 site went online in 1963 servicing the US Military Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) communications network via a troposcatter link to the Peters Mountain relay site to the S. Through co-located microwave transmitters, this site also served as the primary link to to Raven Rock (AJCC) to the backup command center at Ft. Bragg, NC via the Chatham site at the southernmost end of the Project Office chain. In addition to these over-air connections the site was also linked via subterranean cable to the adjacent Cannonball CoG site and the Long Lines cable network to the North.

Like the other Project Office sites, all site infrastructure was located below ground in a nuclear-hardened bunker which was equipped to survive, operate and self-sustain for an extended period in the event of attack. The site is still owned and operated by AT&T and was extensively upgraded as recently as 2007 with modern communications equipment, though the troposcatter links are no longer operational.

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