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Ever since President Reagan, every Commander-in-Chief believe he would make the missile defense work for him. It was known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, under Clinton the name of the program changed to Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization. The first year George Bush was Commander-in-Chief, it became the Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization.
America's missile defense shield is, in a manner o speaking, up and running. One of the little-heralded achievements of the Bush administration was his order in 2002 that instructed the Defense Department to quit wasting so much time testing the shield to see if it will actually work and just deploy the damn thing already. The SBX is the part of the syste that, according to its designers, will pinpoint an incoming ICBM's trajectory and direct into its flight path high-speed interceptor missiles, which also exist and are now on standby in silos in Alaska and California.
Last summer, when the North Koreans fired some missiles, America turned the shield on. Th system is a go. The interceptor silos in Alaska are manned by a permanent National Guard unit. Type "missile defense" into hotjobs.yahoo.com to apply for one of the 187 jobs currently open. The SBX has 2 full crews that roll into work every few weeks on staggered rotations.
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