Unlike the AAC radars, the DEW line stations were manned by civilian contractors, who operated the stations on 18-month renewable contracts.
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Strategic air defense and antimissile systems _ remember the DEW line ? _ cost a bit more than $ 400 billion.
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This system was called the Distant Early Warning system or the DEW Line, which was a state of the art product.
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Once the DEW Line opened in 1957 the number of aircraft using the base subsided and a second hiatus visited Frobisher Bay.
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I mentioned it to another co-worker as he has friends at the DEW line site who checked and said there was nothing.
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A detachment of the ADC 4601st Support Group from Paramus, New Jersey operated from the base supporting the numerous DEW line stations.
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The 4601st Support Squadron, based in Paramus, New Jersey, was activated by ADC to provide logistical and contractual support for DEW Line operations.
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Along with the other intermediate DEW Line Sites, Demarcation Bay Station was closed in 1963 after developments in radar technology rendered it obsolete.
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:: : I was just leaving work and as I drove away from the airport I was staring at the old DEW line site.
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With the missile blazing its path of destruction, a radar station on the DEW Line picks up its approach to the North American continent.
