Green Pine (communications)

The Green Pine UHF communications system was designed to relay Strategic Air Command (SAC) Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to SAC aircraft. Green Pine was designed in 1967.[1] Each Green Pine station was equipped with a variety of communications systems, to ensure that nuclear command and control messages would reach nuclear strategic bombers in Northern latitudes.[1]

Locations

• Adak, Alaska[2]
• Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland
• Barter Island
• Cambridge Bay
• Cape Dyer
• Cape Parry
• Cold Bay
• Dye 3
• Hall Beach
• Melville
• Keflavik, Iceland
• Point Barrow
• Thule, Greenland

See also

• Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
• Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
• Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
• Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
• Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS)

References

1. Graff, Garrett M. (2017). Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die. Simon & Schuster.
2. Strategic Air Command Regulation 100-24 Vol III: SAC Communications System Operations/EWO Support Requirements, 6 Jul 1979

External links

• Green Pine System: Loring AFB, Maine