NAVAL AIR STATION ADAK, ALASKA Patch

Description: NAVAL AIR STATION ADAK, ALASKA Patch - Plastic Backing Aviators! Are you looking for a high-quality patch you'll proudly wear or display? Look no further than the NAVAL AIR STATION ADAK, ALASKA Patch! 4.3"W x 3.7"H Embroidered US Naval Aviator Owned Business Sew On Plastic Backing (increases rigidity; the patch lasts longer and stays flat) NAF Adak during 1970 Naval Air Facility Adak (IATA: ADK, ICAO: PADK, FAA LID: ADK), was a United States Navy airport located west of Adak, on Adak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] After its closure in 1997, it was reopened as Adak Airport. The facility was designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in World War II, although most of its elements from that period have been demolished or lie in ruins. On 1 December 1962 the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) shore terminal was commissioned. It was a secretive separate command, though supported by the larger base.[7][8] Of some note was the detection of highly classified U.S. submarine operations off the Soviet submarine base at Petropavlovsk despite a belief among some submariners the system could not pick up U.S. submarines. The array at Adak twice caused significant awareness SOSUS could. In 1962 NAVFAC Adak contact reports went to Commander, Alaskan Sea Frontier and that command published a secret report containing the Petropavlovsk contacts presuming they were Soviet. Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) recognized the contacts as their very highly classified operations and immediate changes were ordered for the reporting procedures. In 1973 such contacts were again almost published and stopped only when contact information was matched, on advice by a visiting civilian expert who recognized the signatures, by NAVFAC people to one of the submarine's logs when that submarine put into Adak for a medical emergency.[9] In 1968 a tap on the Adak array for the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), a nuclear event monitoring system, combined with AFTAC hydrophones in the Pacific provided time delay analysis for localizing the GOLF II Class Soviet SSB K-129 loss. That location provided the information leading to Project Azorian and the attempt to raise the lost submarine.[10][11] The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) directed closure of the Naval Air Facility and dictate that no military facilities could remain on the island forced the closing of NAVFAC Adak; the only SOSUS facility closed directly as a result of BRAC.[12] Acoustic data from the Adak array was routed to the Naval Ocean Processing Facility Whidbey Island (a tenant of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island) and the Adak facility was decommissioned on 30 September 1992 after thirty years of surveillance.[7][8]

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