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The Green Pine UHF communications system was designed to relay Strategic Air Command (SAC) Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to SAC aircraft. Each Green Pine station was equipped with a variety of communications systems, to ensure that nuclear command and control messages would reach nuclear strategic bombers in Northern latitudes.

Locations

Adak, Alaska^[1]
Argentia, Newfoundland Naval Station Argentia
Barter Island
Cambridge Bay
Cape Dyer
Cape Parry
Cold Bay
Dye 3
Hall Beach
Melville^{[disambiguation needed]}
Keflavik, Iceland
Point Barrow
Thule, Greenland

See also

Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS)

References

^ Strategic Air Command Regulation 100-24 Vol III: SAC Communications System Operations/EWO Support Requirements, 6 Jul 1979^{[unreliable source?]}

External links

Green Pine System: Loring AFB, Maine

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