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Article #27832Re: Canadian LOON dismisses report criticizing mission in Afghanistan
From: Carter
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:33
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:33
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Arved Sandstrom wrote: > What timeframe were you there? I confess to now only having become aware of > CFS Masset, having Googled it - it appears that it is now a remotely > operated site, with perhaps 30 odd personnel still assigned to it. Evidently > at one point there were several hundred people there. > > I personally would have liked it. :-) It doesn't seem to be much different > (apart from the fact that it did/does SIGINT) to a number of little DND > outposts here in Nova Scotia - many of which have to do with some aspect of > comms, or did. In practical terms, once you're more than an hour away from > the big city (Metro Halifax :-)) you're pretty much restricted to going > there on weekends only, and hence have to make do with your local > surroundings. I don't doubt that plenty of folks who were (or in some cases > still are) stationed at Cornwallis, Greenwood, Debert, Shelburne, Mill Cove, > Barrington, Sydney, an antenna farm out Windsor way that I don't know the > name of, or this comm dome parked near the old highway running through the > Cobequids, probably thought or still think that they are working in the > nether regions of nowhere. That antenna farm out Windsor way is Naval Radio Station Newport Corners. Carter
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