![]() Not that we knew anything about what we were getting into, but many of us had college degrees or other aptitudes that filtered us into the USAFSS. The truth is, we were hand picked for our jobs. Because of the sensitive nature of our jobs, we were forbidden to take leave in the border area near the Iron Curtain, but listening to Russian radio signals across that border was our job. On the other hand, we were all very serious about our jobs, part of a large intelligence gathering enterprise. His translators were evacuated before some of the GI’s, because of the sensitivity of their jobs.) We spent our spare time chasing German frauleins, drinking German beer, snapping our German cameras, traveling throughout Western Europe and dreaming about getting out at the end of our 4-year enlistment. He told us of working with Korean translators so near the front that they became overun and had to be evacuated by air. Jim Schuman, who had served in Korea, was assigned to our section. Although far from home and in the land of a former enemy, most of us privately gave thanks that we were not with our USAFSS counterparts in Korea we knew we had a plum assignment in Bavaria. (Master Sgt. Our daily jobs were part of an Air Force intelligence mission and highly classified. Our unit was the 6910th Security Group, based at a former German air base just outside the beautiful little Bavarian town of Landsberg am/Lech. A bunch of very non-military college-age kids were serving in the United States Air Force Security Service (USAFSS). I remember it like it was last year, but it was really over 50 years ago now. Schaz ( talk) 22:40, 13 November 2018 (UTC) Reply Īdding the few online sources I can find here, until I learn how to add them properly to the article.Īir Force Intelligence Fact Sheet ( ) provides dates of when USAFSS was established and changed names.© Copyrighted November 2003 – Ray M. I'm trying to find offline sources, as there's little online to support any of the information. The one actual source link in the article ( ) redirects to a page for a museum ( ). The majority of this article seems to be original research. Schaz ( talk) 01:02, 13 November 2018 (UTC) Reply It's sufficient to say that it's now controlled by Japan. If we keep this paragraph, I suggest "Wakkanai AS closed in 82 or 84, regardless of what the author has written" be deleted. It says, also, that in 1986-88, a remote rack at Wakkanai was operated that sent all information back to Misawa. According to "US SIGINT activities in Japan" ( pg 226 in ), Wakkani AS was turned over to Japan in 1972 USAFSS personnel returned to the now-Japanese complex for special projects, and the NSA stationed a 30-person joint service operation there in 1982 (Project CLEF). ![]() Wakkanai AS closed in 82 or 84, regardless of what the author has written." I don't know which author this sentence is referring to. Wakkanai monitored the Sea of Japan area and the Russian Airfield on Sakhalin as well as areas of North Korea and Russia. Hof in now closed, Wakkanai is under the control of the Japanese. There's a sentence in the following paragraph that seems out of place: "Wakkanai, Japan and Hof, Germany were active in the 1960 - to about 1967 period.
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