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 Blaine Air Force Station — Birch Bay, WA Posted by:  Dunbar Loop
N 48° 55.046 W 122° 44.046
10U E 519480 N 5418311
From 1951 until 1979 the 757th Radar Squadron was located at the Blaine Air Force Station, just a few miles south of Blaine.
Waymark Code: WMTDXP
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 11/08/2016
Views: 7
Although many buildings are gone the barracks, the radar tower and other features remain. Over the years since Blaine Air Force Station closed in 1979, it has transitioned into a county park providing the residents of Birch Bay with a recreational opportunity.
Here are a few comments from Rick [last name unknown] who was stationed here:
Blaine Air Force Station, aka the 757th Radar Squadron, was a small US Air Force installation located about a mile from Birch Bay, Washington, just south of the Canadian Border at Blaine Washington. This was a cold-war era radar site, whose mission was to look for hostile air traffic coming at us from over the horizon. As part of the SAGE system, there were height and search radars there, as well as radio gear to communicate with military aircraft in the area. With the end of the cold war came the end of the site's mission, and it was decommissioned in 1979. The nearest Air Force Base was McChord, near Tacoma WA, about 150 miles to the south.
It was a plum of an assignment, located near 2 large cities, with many recreational amenities either on site or nearby. Compared to the usual location of other radar sites, on mountain tops or 20 miles past the middle of nowhere, there weren't many other sites like it.
Squadron number: 757th Radar Squadron
Served at this site :: From: 11/14/1950 To: 03/30/1979
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