posted on Jul, 9 2004 @ 05:31 PM
When I was in the USAF (1976-1984) I had a friend that grew up with me,
and we went into the A/F together (buddy plan ) after our fist enlistment was up he had an offer to take a test for electronics( out of all the
people
taken it that cycle he scored in the top ten,so the A/F offered him $ 20,000
to re-up (that kind of re-enlistment money was unherd of in 1980..So off he
went to school to learn his new job (he and I at that time had Top-Secret clerence...He could not tell me were he was going to lern his new job,and
his new AFFC was crypto secret (and he worked on all the hardware at Patrick AFB. that controlled all of the USAF Satellites) He could never tell me
this untill late 90's after he got out .But he told me that they had a way of repositioning most of there Satellites,and also destroying them when
there life was up ,they would never just let one decay in orbit. But he also told me that they had Weapon types , Intell types ,Weather types,then
they had what he called John Doe types (that they were never told anything about these) except to monitor vitals on them ..But he said they could be
moved around in different orbits at great speed ...He told me that the 16 years that he was at Patrick AFB ,1980-96 he said they destroyed 42
Satellites,and put up in orbit (USAF) 63 very sophisticated ,highly maneuverable Satellites..just thought i'd tell ya that .