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> SubscriptionMilitary tracks storybook flight of St. Nick for
> 60th year
> 24 December 2015, 2:17 pm
>          ANCHORAGE,
> Alaska        (AP) -- Santa Claus is
> coming to town, and for the 60th consecutive year, the North
> American Aerospace Defense Command will continue its
> tradition of telling youngsters the location of Kris Kringle
> on his annual storybook world tour. The so-called Santa
> Tracker's hub is at Colorado's Peterson Air Force base,
> where hundreds of volunteers will be answering calls from an
> estimated 125,000 children around the globe looking for
> Santa's whereabouts. In places like Alaska, however, remote
> NORAD identification technicians who monitor computer
> screens 24 hours a day for possible air incursions also
> spend Christmas Eve serving as official Santa "trackers."
> The technicians in Canada and the U.S. report "sightings" of
> a sleigh full of toys pulled by flying reindeer, said Tech.
> Sgt. John Gordinier, an Alaska NORAD spokesman. "It's one of
> the largest military community relations events we have,"
> Gordinier said. --- HOW DOES NORAD TRACK SANTA? A system of
> radar stations and satellites monitor all air traffic
> entering U.S. and Canadian airspace. All aircraft have a
> code to identify themselves. If an aircraft doesn't have a
> code, Gordinier said, NORAD can scramble jets to see who it
> is and what they're doing. Luckily, Santa is good at keeping
> in touch with NORAD, Gordinier said. "When he pops up, we
> call him Big Red One," he said. "That's his call sign." The
> nose on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a tipoff. It gives
> off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch,
> Gordinier said. --- WHAT IS SANTA'S ROUTE? Santa generally
> departs the North Pole, flies to the international date line
> over the Pacific Ocean, then begins deliveries in island
> nations. He then works his way west in the Northern and
> Southern hemispheres. Alaska is usually his last stop before
> heading home, Gordinier said. --- HOW DO CHILDREN
> PARTICIPATE? Starting at 10 p.m. Alaska time on Dec. 23, and
> for 23 hours covering most of Christmas Eve, children can
> call a toll-free number, 877-446-6723 (877-Hi-NORAD) and
> speak to a live phone operator about Santa's whereabouts.
> They can also send an email to noradtracksanta@outlook.com.
> NORAD has 157 telephone lines and hundreds of volunteers
> ready to answer calls, including first lady Michelle Obama,
> who takes a break from her Hawaii vacation to take forwarded
> calls. NORAD also created a website, www.noradsanta.org; a
> Facebook page, www.facebook.com/noradsanta; and a Twitter
> account @NoradSanta for the program. The sites include
> games, movies and music. "Santacams" stream videos from
> various locations. --- HOW DID NORAD GET INVOLVED WITH
> TRACKING SANTA? A 1955 newspaper advertisement for Sears
> Roebuck and Co. listed a phone number for "kiddies" to call
> Santa Claus but got it wrong. The number was for a crisis
> phone at Air Operations Center at Continental Air Defense
> Command, NORAD's predecessor, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
> Air Force Col. Harry Shoup took a call from a child and
> thought he was being pranked. When he figured out he was
> talking to a little boy, he pretended he was Santa. More
> children called. Shoop eventually instructed airmen
> answering the phone to offer Santa's radar location as he
> crossed the globe. That sparked the tradition that is
> heading into its 60th year.
>
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