NORAD Ready to Welcome and Track Santa
Friday, December 23, 2011 @ 3:49 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The Canadian NORAD operations have selected the four pilots who will be escorting Santa when he enters Canadian airspace on Christmas Eve.
CF-18 fighter pilots Captains Gregory Myers and Aaron Dhillon of 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron will be the first to welcome Santa. They will launch from 3 Wing Bagotville, Qubec.
As Santa makes his way to western Canada, 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hamilton and his wingman Captain Corey Mask of 4 Wing Cold Lake Alberta will take over escort duties.
The Canadian Air Defence Sector Operations Centre at 22 Wing in North Bay, Ont., will alert NORAD when their radar and satellite systems detect Santa approaching North America. The two CF-18 Hornet fighter jets from 3 Wing will welcome Santa off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, then hand over their duties as he nears western Canada to the two CF-18 Hornets from 4 Wing who will escort him for the remainder of his Christmas voyage.
Special NORAD ‘SantaCams’, positioned around the world, will take photos and video of Santa and his sleigh as he journeys around the world. The ‘SantaCams’ instantly download the photo and video imagery so that it may be viewed by children worldwide on the NORAD Tracks Santa website on December 24.
Website visitors can watch Santa as he makes all the preparations for his flight. NORAD’s "Santa Cams" will also stream videos as Santa makes his way over various locations worldwide. Last year on Christmas Eve alone, NORAD "Santa Trackers" answered thousands of telephone calls and emails over a 25-hour period.
Comments
No one believes in Christ any more—not even NORAD. Are we getting dumber or what? We even teach this crap to children as a fact. I’m perplexed by mans stupidity — then again the Good Book told us this would happen.
dont even let me loose on this subject folks
Christmas:- the only time of the year you’ll hear all those Jewish merchants humming “What A Friend We Have In Jesus!”
Seriously, if you look at all the attempts those currently in the running for US President make to identify themselves as true ‘Christians’, it’s sure easy to see that ‘style’ has long ago obliterated any ‘substance’. But then look at some of their followers.
“Practical Christianity”, to them, wouldn’t be the incarnation of Christ’s teachings into our daily lives, but rather the ability of some preacher to pack the most paying customers into the pews on Sunday, and exact the most tribute out of them when the collection plate comes around.
Awesome. Fighter jet escort for a fictitious character. I guess it has to be the F-18’s because so far the F-35’s radar doesn’t work in the arctic.
These comments depress me. Lighten up, folks.
Ho Ho Ho and merry as we go. Happy Christmas to one and all.
“No one believes in Christ any more”
1. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration.
2. Santa is not Christ.
3. By far the majority who read this would not believe that there is a “real” Santa who comes down the chimney.
I wasn’t suggesting that Santa is Christ. The giving of gifts stsrted with St Nicholas, who was a 4th century Greek Christian Bishop of Myra, who gave generously to a Christian mans daughters to keep them from entering into prostitution. He was very religious and devoted his entire life to Christianity.
Through so many centuries and so many countries and customs we have eventually turned this mans gift giving into a myth or “fable” of a fat man coming down the chimmney with gifts and candy, which has become the focus of the majority of children in the world. That depresses me.
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