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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, November 30th, 2023. This is the

excerpt. Today, how day drinking went undetected at a top US military base.

Plus there's a day extension to the Israel Hamas truce and Henry Kissinger has died.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command or Norrad is best known to the American public

as the group that tracks Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.

But their other role is a lot more critical to American safety and on this we recently learned

that there were some potentially high risks.

To learn more, I spoke with USA Today's Pentagon correspondent, Tom Vandenbrooke,

on this exclusive bombshell of a story.

Tom, thanks for making the time.

Taylor, good to be here. So Tom, can you just start by telling our

listeners what NOLRAD is? NorAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command and it's

based out in Colorado Springs, the Peterson Air Force Base, it's a joint command

with the Canadians.

Started in the 50s, designed to protect the United States

and Canada from attack at the time in the 50s

at the height of the Cold War,

that was from the fear about Soviet bombers coming over the North Pole

and bombing the United States and Canada.

That's where it started and since then it's expanded its writ to maritime

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