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Western Air Defense Sector
"Guarding America's Skies"
Lt Col Brian Bergren 225th Air Defense Squadron Director of Operations
Lt Col Eric Corder 225th ADS Assistant Director of Operations
Lt Col Bergren and Lt Col Corder will be sharing WADS' latest efforts around Hurricane Harvey support, Super Bowl 52 support and the State Partnership Program participation in Guatemala.
The Western Air Defense Sector, with headquarters at McChord Field, Washington State, is the largest of three sectors responsible to the
Continental U.S. North American Area Defense Region - First Air Force (CONR-1AF) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) for peacetime air sovereignty, strategic air defense, and airborne counterdrug operations in the continental United States.
WADS is a Washington Air National Guard unit which operationally reports directly to First Air Force at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. WADS is one of two sectors responsible to NORAD's aerospace warning and control mission.
The men and women of the Western Air Defense Sector detect, identify, track and can scramble fighters to intercept unknown or threatening
airborne objects as part of their mission to guard America's skies 24 hours a day, seven days a week of nearly 73% of the United States and Canada.
Their team is a bi-national and joint service unit. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Canadian Forces personnel, DoD civilians, and government contractors
all comprise the WADS team. Only about 20 percent of the Western Air Defense Sector team are traditional Air Guardsmen who serve one weekend per month and two weeks a year.
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