Cheyenne Mountain Military Base, a huge tunnel entrance, heavily guarded. Soldiers at the checkpoint are loaded with live ammunition, the outermost is a wire fence, and there are three layers of checkpoints inside. Two American GIs walked around with M4 carbines. It's still early, and no one is coming.

They were also accustomed to this rhythm of patrolling, talking to each other in low voices.

"Hey, you know what, man, this place used to trick me so hard. An American soldier laughed.

"What?" said the other soldier, frowning.

"Because of this place, I really used to believe in Santa Claus. The American soldier was a little joking.

Because the U.S. North American Air Defense Command has a tradition that has lasted for more than half a century. They have a special mission to "track Santa Claus" every Christmas. It's almost become an American custom.

NAAFT's virtual operation was the result of a small act of kindness that would make a mistake. It was probably in 1955 that a local newspaper mistakenly printed Santa's phone number in a commercial to the number of the U.S. Continental Air Defense Command at the time. As a result, the personnel on duty at the headquarters received many calls from children on Christmas Eve of that year.

The commander at that time was amused, but he couldn't bear to disappoint the children, so he ordered to make mistakes, reassuring and promising the children on the phone that Santa Claus was on his way to distribute gifts. This command was merged three years later to become the North American Air Defense Command, and this tradition of "white lies" continues to this day. With the advancement of technology, the avenues of "tracking" operations have also expanded from the telephone to the Internet and mobile terminals.

NORAD even launched a "Track Santa" website. The website is available in 8 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. In addition, multilingual volunteers and interpreters will be responsible for answering and answering inquiries from all over the world. At their peak, these volunteers answered more than 100,000 phone calls and more than 8,000 emails in a single day. It's also kind of American humor.

Therefore, the American soldiers who served here often ridiculed this incident. Two American soldiers were bored when someone came in front of them. Two American soldiers immediately walked over and stretched out their hands to stop them, "Stop, please show your ID." ”

These people seem to be cadets and instructors of the Air Force Academy, and the leader is Crazy Horse, and he took out his ID, "Air Force Academy, we have a research project that needs to retrieve some information from the Air Defense Command Center. ”

"Is there an appointment?" one of the U.S. soldiers asked casually, but his eyes looked at the two beautiful female students behind Crazy Horse, and he couldn't help but say, "We need to verify." ”

"Please, please hurry. Crazy Horse nodded, "There should be our appointment list on the online log." ”

"Okay, I'll look it up. The U.S. soldier was tapping on the computer over and over again, and the other U.S. soldier was routinely checking for wireless communication devices on them.

"Uh, I found it. Don't you have any mobile phones or anything like that? If so, I can save it for you and give it back to you when you come out. The U.S. soldier looked at the computer and poked his head out of the checkpoint window and said reads.

"No, we know the rules. Crazy Horse nodded

"Alright, several, you can get there. The U.S. military nodded and said, "Take your documents and go over there." ”

"Thank you handsome. Crystal smiled and turned away with Yelena.

The two U.S. soldiers couldn't help but want to whistle, "It's a pity they didn't have their phones, otherwise I would have known their numbers." ”

"Hey, man, do you hear that? She thinks I'm handsome. I bet maybe I could date her. The American GI whispered.

"Come on, I bet she likes me. The other American soldier shook his head with a smile, "Forget it, don't say it, someone is here again." ”

A military jeep was parked outside, and in the way came the major officer, who looked a little thin and had what appeared to be a scar on his eye.

The American soldier saluted, "Sir, please show your ID." ”

The major officer raised his hand and saluted in a very standard posture, and said in a deep voice, "Ministry of Defense, this is a certificate." ”

The soldier looked at Jiang An and whispered, "Sir, we found your appointment. However, according to the rules, we have to check the box in your hand. ”

The Major nodded, and opened the box in front of him, which contained a few paper documents. "You can inspect it, but you don't have permission to know the contents of the file. The officer raised his hand to stop the soldier from flipping through it, and said slowly, "Have you found my information, can I go in?"

"Of course, Major Locke. The soldier nodded, handing him the ID card in his hand.

The major turned his face a little indifferently and walked towards the checkpoint inside with the box.

"Hey, I bet the guy came down from the battlefield, do you see the scars on the corners of his eyes?" the U.S. soldier whispered to his companion.

"Maybe, it's good that we don't have to go to the front. I don't want to go to damn Iraq, Afghanistan, or whatever. Listen dude, it's not that I'm afraid of death. It's just that I've seen some of them come back from the battlefield, and they all look like the officer just now. They look at people like they look at people with indifference, and God knows what terrible things have happened to them there. The other soldier whispered.

The officer with the scar on his eye walked far away, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, he was a general.

"Hey, what's going on, there are quite a few people here today. The American soldier sighed because another car drove over. But this time it was not a beautiful cadet, nor an officer of the Ministry of Defense, but two soldiers, a sergeant and a private. Looking at their armbands should be the logistics maintenance department of Unit 721.

"Hey man, when did you guys go out, why I don't have a record here. The U.S. military frowned.

Lin Rui shook his head and said, "We're not going out, we're just overhauling the line nearby." In addition, a batch of damaged monitoring equipment will be replaced. He and Sandro walked over with heavy kits.

"Hey, they have a record, I found it. They're from the maintenance department, that's right. "Another U.S. military found the information on the computer. Then another soldier came over and did a routine check.

"Alright, get your detector out of the way. We're all over the place. Your detector has to be called for most of the day. Lin Rui cooperated and opened the toolkit.

"What is this?" said one of the soldiers, picking up a small camera.

"This is a few nearby areas, camera surveillance accessories, just replaced by a batch. Don't get rid of it, these are numbered, and we have to recycle them all. Lin Rui shook his head.

"Well, no problem, guys, you guys go there and get checked. The soldier roughly inspected it and waved to the checkpoint behind him. Lin Rui and Sandro began to walk inside.

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