Ent Air Force Base was a United States Army and Air Force installation of World War II and the Cold War at the site of a closed sanatorium along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. In addition to the ADCOM & NORAD operations centers and the SPADATS Operation Center, the installation was the site of command headquarters of ADCOM, ARAACOM, and NORAD; as well as the Fifteenth Air Force of Strategic Air Command and the Fourteenth Aerospace Force of Aerospace Defense Command.
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