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From: "the Bede" <rspwsownthebede@xxxxxxxxx>• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:11:31 −0600•

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ACID TEST III − Joint U.S. Canada winter tactical deployment exercise heldin Alaska in 1970.

BIG SQUIRT − A broadcast station operated by Voice of America just below theDemilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Vietnam and built by Page Communications.

BLOW HOLE − Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort connected withtarget location and identification.

BONUS DEAL − A Strategic Air Command project to identify directed bombing.

BRICK BAT − A top priority that gives defense contractors precedence overother commercial companies in obtaining critical materials.

BRILLANT PEBBLES − SDIO, Space−based Laser/Recon

BURNING CANDY − SAC OpOrd for RC−135C, RC−135D Rivet Brass, RC−135M RivetCord, and RC−135T Rivet Dandy missions, 1967−1971+; including: Arctic Candy,Baltic Candy, Cuban Candy and Mediterranean Candy.

BURP GUN − A Strategic Air Command refueling track over western New York.

CHICKEN LITTLE − A mortar developed by the Army.

CLARINET RAMROD − A high classified Naval Electronics Command projectformerly known as BOWLINE. It is related to CLARINET ANCHOR, the new namefor SEA ANCHOR.

COLD DRAFT − Warm fog dispersal by helicopter at March AFB, cancelled.

COLLEGE COED Continuation of SDS operation by the Aerospace Defense Command.

COLLEGE GIRLS − Air Force high level intercept activity against U−2aircraft.

COMBAT POLKA − Operational test of the interface between the Air Force F−4D

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aircraft and Falcon (AIM−4D) missile.

COMFY SPROUT − Denotes intelligence messages for the commander at Air ForceSecurity briefings.

COMMANDO BANANA − Beddown of forces at Korat, cancelled.

COOL MIDGET − Utilization and support of the 25th TASS.

CREEK DONKEY − Name of an Air Force aircraft.

DEEP FREEZE − A Naval operation in Antarctica.

DICE THROW − A high explosive field test program to simulate the effects ofnuclear weapons on a large array of experimental test items.

DIDO QUEEN − FY 1973 Department of Defense underground, nuclear weaponseffects test.

DIXIE CUP − A Ford Aerospace & Communications development of a ballisticmissile penetration aid in the form of a metallic re−entry vehicle−shapeddecoy that would radiate electronic jamming signals before the ICBM entersthe earth's atmosphere. Development conducted under the Air Force's AdvancedBallistic Re−entry Systems program.

EGYPTIAN GOOSE − A DARPA study to determine the feasibility of suspending asurveillance radar from a tethered balloon over a combat area to get a closelook at well−defended enemy positions as a substitute for exposing a mannedobservation aircraft to hazardous gunfire. It is also used to detectincoming unidentified aircraft.

EXOTIC DANCER − Joint exercise involving Navy, Army, Marine and Air Forceunits.

GHOST RIDER II − An Air Force drone contingency plan.

GIANT PROFIT − A Minuteman modified operational missile test plan.

GIN PLAYER − SAC tests of Minuteman missile for identification andexecution.

GLAD RAGS − A Strategic Air Command program restricting commanders to base.

GLAMOR GIRL − A program to move SR−71 aircraft to Europe.

HARVEST PEOPLE − A logistics career management action plan.

HAVE CAKE − Air Force exploitation of an ordnance system.

HAVE COFFEE − Airborne measurement of ballistic missile radiation; used U−2D'56−6721'

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HAVE IDEA − Air Combat Training with various MiGs, to Constant Peg

HEAD COP − A Headquarters Command USAF program for continuity of operationsplan.

HEAD DANCER − 3 EC−135K '55−3118', '59−1518', '62−3536', 1961−1979

HEAVY CHEST − The bailment of C−7A aircraft to Air America, cancelled.

HIGH BOY − Code name of U−2 aircraft used in the Navy's Aerospace OceanSurveillance Program, an R&D effort aimed at advanced development ofaircraft and spaceborne sensor systems to keep track of enemy movements onthe sea surface, cancelled.

HIP POCKET − A Navy program to employ off−the−shelf equipment to improveship defense against missile threats. The Navy is provided the equipment tosee how it works, and to test its reliability at a very early stage. Thesystem also aids industry in testing preliminary equipment.

HOT CHOCOLATE − A highly classified communications system. Consists of oneshore station plus eight remote units (probably submarines), handled by theOffice of Special Communications, out of Naval Electronic Systems Command.

IDEALIST − CIA codename for development of U−2

IVORY JUSTICE − Excercise, to improve UAE pilot readiness

JACK FROST I − Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) directed and coordinated exercisein Alaska, to test and evaluate command procedures.

JAZZ ROCK − JOINT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM/REGION OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTER; AUSAF plan to make joint use of Air Force and FAA radars for civil airtraffic control and air defense needs. It would implement five regionalcontrol centers, including one in Alaska, to replace SAGE centers.

LINEAR UNICORN − Classified Navy program.

LONG DRINK − This operation involves tests to keep helicopters in the airfor long periods through fueling constantly via an aluminum tube to theground.

LONG LEGS − Operation, [.]

MAD BOMBER − An Army weapons system used on helicopters that dumps mortarshells and fragmentation bombs on enemy positions by tilting a trough.

MAIN EVENT − A joint Army, Navy, Air Force test to determine by simulationthe effects of nuclear blast on weapons, materials, ground shock andbuildings.

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MOBY DICK − Free−floating balloons fitted with high−altitude opticalcameras, 1947

OLD BOURBON − A test aircraft and the flight plan in support of a StrategicAir Command operational test and evaluation program.

OUTLAW BANDIT − USN, classified surveillance/C3I program ?

PALACE HOMECOMING − Career counseling and reassignment of returned POWs.

PALACE RETIREMENT − Retirement in lieu of PCS assignment action.

PEACE HAWK − A fifth and final phase in the modernization of Saudi Arabia'sAir Force, involving approximately 100 Northrop F−5s.

PEACE PARROT − An Iranian Foreign Military Sales program, cancelled.

PEACE STRIKE − Foreign Military Sales of F−5B/E aircraft to Malaysia.

PENNY COUNTER − A mobile air transportable Univac 1050 II computer system.

URGENT FURY − Operation, invasion of Grenada, 10/1983

VARSITY SPIRIT − Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) directed and coordinatedexercise.

WEDDING RING − An Army Missile Command intelligence analysis programconducted by Sylvania.

WEE LOOK − A multiple−band emitter surveillance equipment under developmentby McDonnell Douglas and Sylvania for use aboard Navy EA−3B and EA−3Caircraft.

WHISPERING DEATH − An air−deliverable quad 50 cal. machine gun capable offiring 2400 rounds per minute.

WHITE CLOUD − A Navy program for liquid propellant guns.

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