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Article #27834Re: Canadian LOON dismisses report criticizing mission in Afghanistan
From: Arved Sandstrom
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:46
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:46
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"Carter" <per.ardua@adastra> wrote in message news:QaCrg.7640$pu3.170307@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... > 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. Thank you. I Googled, and it appears that that station is/was significant in MARLANT communications. If I understand what was told me correctly one time, the fairly innocuous comm site in the Cobequids is also a long range relay site. AHS
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