Joint Air Defense Command

Joint Air Defense Command (JADC) is an organization of the Allied States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the entire North American continent. It was founded on May 12, 1958 (an effect of the Cold War) as a joint command between the governments of Canada and the United States, as the North American Air Defense Command. It was later renamed and re-renovated by the Allied States (when Colorado merged with the Allied States in February 2010), to become the Joint Air Defense Command. Its main technical facility has been the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate, formerly Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, of the Cheyenne Mtn. Air Force Station, Kansas; and for this reason JADC is sometimes referred to as Cheyenne Mountain. However the facility's official name is the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Complex.
== Overview ==
Since the Allied States took over, construction to enlarge the complex has been completed. The residential facility outside the main gate has also been enlarged. Administered by the Allied States Navy, the Joint Air Defense Command is part of the Allied States Strategic Command. Mexico, (countries) and several Caribbean nations all take part, however the JADC remains a branch of the Allied States Military. Liaisons from all aforementioned nations are located within the Operations Complex.
=== Cheyenne Mountain Operations Complex ===
The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Complex is a joint and binational military installation in the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker. The base was commonly referred to by its code name Crystal Palace during the Cold War. The Complex is responsible for several centers collecting data from a worldwide surveillance network of satellites, radars, and other sensors for year-round processing in real time.
Similar to the 1953 US Raven Rock continuity of government bunker, the JADC bunker entrance is on the side of a blast tunnel with the blast doors inside the mountain 2,000 ft (610 m). Over 500 men and women from the Allied States Military and participant countries work here on a daily basis, and most of them live in the barrack complex outside the entrance.
File:Cheyenne Mountain.png|Cheyenne Mountain in winter viewed from just outside of Fort Carson.
File:Cheyenne Mountain entrance.png|Northern entrance.
File:Cheyenne Mountain command center.png|One of the facility's command centers.
== Uses and mission ==
*The JADC provides aerospace warning and aerospace control for the entirety of the North American continent.
*Heads of state and government of participant nations may take refuge in the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Complex if they feel their lives to be in danger.
*The Operations Complex is also the location where the President of the Allied States will go when the country, or he himself, is threatened. If an event takes place and the President is closer to this location than another Operations Complex, he will resume his duties there.
== See Also ==
*Allied States of America
*Government of the Allied States
Category:Military