North American Aerospace Defense Command | Behind the Wings on PBS 

Thank You RADAR Michael for every contribution you have made. Do not worry, what you have posted, shows RESPECT and HONOR to anyone who has served their COUNTRY. I am from the US and CANADA / MEXICO (BTW, officially is the United Mexican States, HOW COOL IS THAT, UMS compared to US) have always been to me as BROTHERS. We are different countries, HOWEVER, RELATIVES!!! We might have differences, when someone interferes, WATCH OUT. Look at the video, US / CANADA have the same interest and we need to include MEXICO. Let's continue to be great together :-) BTW, great movie, Canadian Bacon: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IWpThrDfQEI.html

Jimmies Rock ... I am an ATIS tech (3 1/2 years left until I retire.) Started my career at 42 Tactical Radar Sqn in Cold Lake - it was one of the old Pinetree line radars before being “repurposed” as a Tactical Air Control Radar Sqn - TRAPLINE!

@@Timon42 that's awesome. Finally met a fellow Jimmy on YT. I wanted to go to 42 as I felt it was a challenge I wanted ...but not oj boy is 8ACCS was more challenging at times lol. Once stayed up 48hrs straight ripping our MPN down to get the SSR slip ring out on a BTE in wainwright. No one had had one fail at that point. Those sliprings are NOT engineered to come out easy lol

@@radarmike6713 I understand. TCR had its challenges too. Slip rings in any Radar are never designed to be replaced easily. Lol. And my other “gripe” is that engineers never think about the guys who have to keep the damn thing running. They think we are all about the size of a 4 year old. Lol. Never been to 8ACCS but I hear it was a good go ... challenging but good.

@@Timon42 right!?!?! Designers and engineers are morons. Lol. IDK how many times I've felt that same thought lol. It was "tough" but that challenge was what made it great. Love to say I was a Jimmy. And a gypsy as well.

@The Realm Haters gonna hate.

Absolutely. MATT both Informative and Fun at the same time. The LT General should of told Matt, no we are going to lock you up after this taping, LOL 🙂

I know. I came twice!!!

If I remember correctly. They swap back and forth.

@@juno1915 The commander (4-star) of NORAD is always an American, while the deputy commander (3-maple leaf) is always a Canadian. The deputy was shown in the episode.

@@DJones476 ahh okay. Thanks for correcting me

@@DJones476 Thank you for the information. BTW, everyone in the Western Hemisphere is an "AMERICAN" 🙂Kennedy said it well during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Launch a weapon against any Country in the Western Hemisphere, is a Strike against America. Finally, I learned this about 3 years ago. The official title of Mexico is not Mexico, it's, "United Mexican States" Pretty cool, 🙂

@@bobbycv64 Yeah, you nailed it! Estados Unidos Mexicanos - United Mexican States. Brotherly Love from British Columbia!🍁🦅

They legit are some of the dumbest people around. NORAD is a useless joke.

Fox-Two!!!

Stay safe, healthy & avoid the $35k bill. No one should be without a special kind of insurance; major medical! Our nation needs to get this back on the market as a no fault type of mandatory insurance.

It's not the money going to healthcare that's the problem... The problem is, the high level of greed and corruption, in the various offices people have to depend on to get that healthcare. Healthcare isn't an "insurance," issue. It's the extreme cost in the hospitals, the doctor's offices, and other healthcare locations. America already has a system, that will assist those that cannot pay for healthcare out of pocket. But the cost is insanely high at all levels. If the sheer cost of healthcare cannot get under control, and the sky's the limit for anyone wanting to just gouge people for $$$, America's healthcare will continue to be one of the most expensive in the world! To find out why, go find a doctor on the golf course...

acidkhmer I don’t know if your assumptions are entirely correct. If those US citizens have health insurance it’s unlikely they’re going to be paying any bill in its entirety for the CCP Coronavirus.

@@jameslanning8405 well I'm American and I don't pay Jack shit for my healthcare, I'm not bragging at all btw I'm just saying that there are some of us out here that get great service and that not all of us have the same issues. But I also don't agree with free healthcare which is very ironic for my situation because though I personally need the insurance I have I also don't agree with me not having to pay? The US has a lot better healthcare than most countries that don't have to pay BECAUSE our treatment is very very fast, efficient, very high quality and doctors are in turn paid better because we pay. I'm conflicted about my personal situation lol

@@shyryTsr2k It's a fact we share. I'm a caregiver full-time. I have no income and am a dependent so get expanded Medicaid. My mom is 88 and is Medicare covered. She gets dad's max Social Security as his widow. After Medicare deductions her net Social Security is less than her property taxes. Her home was paid off 30 years ago and she can deferr the property taxes. My brother- in-law is a 69 yr old Family Practice Doc who still works full-time. His home is heavily mortgaged so he can't retire. He earns a moderate salary for a physician maybe 150k. If I were a working freight pilot I could easily make 300k. Physicians are not the reason why our system is too expensive. But no one wants slow low tech care in hospital. We just can't stop spending too much for heroic care for the very old or other terminal patients. Thus one serious illness can bankrupt a 40 year old w/o a major medical policy that covers the $500,000 bill. No fault car insurance is mandatory in Oregon. Not major medical for everyone under 60. It is stupid!

Probably lack of resources. Currently Mexico has 3 Northrup F-5s in active service and 1 F5 trainer, everything else is light ground attack prop aircraft. Also most if not all threats to the continent come from further north or over the pole.

@@Streaml1neJMoose South America is a huge threat as well though because their economies and militaries are quite small/less funded at least compared to invading forces like Russia/China so they'd most likely be the first to feel the wrath since Mexico connects the Panama Canal to both North and South America if you look on a map and just in general

The specific threat NORAD was designed to counter was Soviet bombers coming over the north pole (shortest distance from their air bases) to strike the United States during the Cold War. Canada is in between so their role in defense of the Continent is obvious. Mexico was neither a likely target nor geographically positioned to assist with this threat. The southern border is a security risk in the sense that drug cartels or terrorists could fly planes over it with ill intent. However, that is a much smaller scale threat than what NORAD is designed to handle. In practice, intercepting one plane at a time is what NORAD deals with on a day to day basis, but it's not the reason it exists. The reason it exists is to counter huge military threats, and those are extremely unlikely to come from the south. Consider that the only potential adversaries even capable of launching a large-scale attack on the US are located in the northern hemisphere. Logistically, for Russia or China or North Korea to attack by air from the South would be extraordinarily more difficult than to attack from the North, East or West. In fact imo a large scale air attack from the south is simply not possible with their current or expected near-term military capabilities. All that said, of course Mexico could play a logical role in helping to defend the US against small terrorist attacks or cross-border cartel activity. But I don't really see what's in it for them. The US and Mexico have cooperated in joint excercises over the southern border, but membership in NORAD would be a more significant commitment.

@@shyryTsr2k mexico es de norte america

NORAD was a follow up from a prior agreement between Canada and the US once WW2 started. Both countries agreed that they would come to the defence of each other should one be attacked. It was signed by FDR and WLMK@@ryebreadreturn1