Camp Adair - SAGE building for Adair A F S
N 44° 40.323 W 123° 13.170
10T E 482601 N 4946542
This is now in Adair Village, north of Corvallis, Oregon.
Waymark Code: WM9VJJ
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2010
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This is now in Adair Village, north of Corvallis, Oregon.
"Responsible for the defense of eight Western states, the SAGE Direction Center at Adair continuously monitored the readouts of 16 long-range radar stations. In case a hostile aircraft was spotted, the station could scramble U.S. jets from the 322nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, the 84th or the 456th in the San Francisco Bay Area, the 194th in Fresno or the 190th in Boise. It also could order up a barrage from the 40th Artillery Brigade's Nike-Hercules missile batteries in the Bay Area.
Although primitive by today's standards, SAGE was highly advanced for its time. It transmitted radar images via modem over conventional telephone lines and displayed them on video terminals. The processing power for the operation was provided by two enormous IBM computers, each containing more than 50,000 vacuum tubes and weighing close to 300 tons.
At its peak, Adair AFS was home to 860 Air Force officers and enlisted men and 150 civilian support personnel. Most of them spent their working days inside the Blockhouse, monitoring or maintaining the electronic equipment." source (
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It was around from 1957 until being declared "surplus" in 1969. It is located on what was know as "Hospital Hill" of the WWII Army Camp Adair. A BOMARC missile site was also started here, then abandoned.
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