WEBVTT 00:01.929 --> 00:03.230 - I can make money anywhere. 00:03.230 --> 00:05.960 Alaska's got lots of good jobs that pay a lot of money. 00:05.960 --> 00:07.569 This is what I wanted to do 00:07.569 --> 00:10.152 and this is what I asked to do. 00:12.299 --> 00:16.466 ^We went through a Cold War and during that Cold War era, 00:17.484 --> 00:20.394 ^we had a lot of threats, most of which, 00:20.394 --> 00:24.409 that we were concerned about is potential nuclear strike 00:24.409 --> 00:25.409 on our soil. 00:28.017 --> 00:30.926 So we built a lot of defenses to be able to detect 00:30.926 --> 00:32.926 and counter that threat. 00:34.080 --> 00:36.566 Very earlier on strategic planners saw Alaska, 00:36.566 --> 00:40.316 they saw it's position in relation to Russia, 00:41.166 --> 00:44.206 to China and over the pole and they said, 00:44.206 --> 00:46.205 "The threat's gonna come from somewhere, 00:46.205 --> 00:47.603 "it's gonna come from this direction 00:47.603 --> 00:49.878 "and we're gonna need something here to detect 00:49.878 --> 00:52.008 "and to track and to be available for 00:52.008 --> 00:54.341 "that early warning system." 00:59.517 --> 01:01.760 They knew that very early on and they started with 01:01.760 --> 01:04.735 the old tech site and the old tech site's also known 01:04.735 --> 01:08.902 as BMEWS is a radar that was a physically rotating radar 01:11.626 --> 01:14.633 that had fences that they would physically move 01:14.633 --> 01:17.413 to detect and track one target at a time. 01:17.413 --> 01:20.663 That was kind of the genesis for clear. 01:26.369 --> 01:28.708 Our deterrence though is more in the aspect 01:28.708 --> 01:32.072 of they know that we can detect something from Russia, 01:32.072 --> 01:36.155 North Korea, China and our certain coverage area. 01:37.046 --> 01:39.713 So this radar, using our system, 01:40.784 --> 01:44.263 we can track something the size of a softball 01:44.263 --> 01:46.229 at 3,000 nautical miles. 01:46.229 --> 01:50.325 And we can track multiple objects at the same time. 01:50.325 --> 01:52.569 That causes them to have to change the way 01:52.569 --> 01:55.966 that they do business in order to either avoid 01:55.966 --> 02:00.133 or to somehow find a way of scurting our detection ability. 02:01.313 --> 02:02.987 And the reason that we exist 02:02.987 --> 02:04.889 is that we can give accurate enough data for 02:04.889 --> 02:09.056 the folks at Fort Greely or folks down in California 02:09.911 --> 02:11.943 to be able to shoot their interceptors 02:11.943 --> 02:15.610 and be able to intercept that ICBM in space. 02:16.982 --> 02:17.973 We're all out of stressor 02:17.973 --> 02:20.054 because we are in a remote location. 02:20.054 --> 02:22.671 We're 80 miles from the nearest major town 02:22.671 --> 02:24.117 which is Fairbanks. 02:24.117 --> 02:26.572 We're 30 minutes from the nearest gas station. 02:26.572 --> 02:28.734 So you really have to play in what you're doing out here. 02:28.734 --> 02:31.269 The reality of our mission is that there has to be people 02:31.269 --> 02:34.000 at this remote strategic location 02:34.000 --> 02:36.974 in the middle of nowhere Alaska, 24 hours a day, 02:36.974 --> 02:40.807 seven days a week, 365 and 366 on a leap year. 02:41.282 --> 02:44.115 We don't get a break from threats. 02:44.802 --> 02:47.457 Threats don't stop because we stop 02:47.457 --> 02:49.489 and they don't take days off. 02:49.489 --> 02:52.512 My priorities: God, family and country. 02:52.512 --> 02:56.679 And the last two are really tied in together in this mission 02:57.226 --> 02:59.339 because I get to be with my family 02:59.339 --> 03:00.867 but I also get to protect them 03:00.867 --> 03:03.367 and my country simultaneously.