1900 local McGuire C-32B #00-9001 from McGuire 150th SOS to Syracuse now.. The Gatekeeper?
1904 local seems 00-9001 missed apch at Syracuse.. gonna try again or just aircraft pilot training exercise?
Last two months been hanging locals in and out of McGuire as TERRA-97.. Needs a mission
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From the Wiki..
A C-32B with
airstair deployed.
The 45-seat C-32B Gatekeeper
[14] provides airlift to the U.S. government's Gate Keeper (GK) mission, a
special access program which provides clandestine support to foreign nations through unclassified State Department
Foreign Emergency Support Team missions and classified special operations and intelligence missions.
[15][2][16] The aircraft are operated by two different units, the
New Jersey Air National Guard's
150th Special Operations Squadron at
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, and the
486th Flight Test Squadron at
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
[17][18] The C-32Bs operate at the direction of the Commander of
U.S. Special Operations Command, though when serving a civilian agency, approval for the use of the aircraft is on the recommendation of the committee of
Deputy Secretaries of Defense with the consent of the
Secretary of Defense.[
citation needed] The development of the two aircraft emerged from the 2001 Air Force budget, where they were procured for $144.963 million to fill an Air Force request for transportation capabilities for the
Foreign and
Domestic Emergency Support Teams.
[19] The Gate Keeper mission predates the aircraft, which are successors to previous fleets based on other models of aircraft. The planes have been spotted throughout the world, including such locations as
Area 51 and the
Tonopah Test Range, as well as nearly every country.
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