[BigEdLB]

New info - Gov Sarah Palin has Natioal security briefings because one unit of the Alaska National Guard, where she is COMMANDER IN CHIEF, is in charge of a Patriot Missle Battery

49th Missile Defense Batallion, Alaska Air National Guard
HT Laura Ingraham

[6SJ7]

New info - Gov Sarah Palin has Natioal security briefings because one unit of the Alaska National Guard, where she is COMMANDER IN CHIEF, is in charge of a Patriot Missle Battery

Sen. Obama, how many defense missile batteries have you ever been in command of?

[savedbygrace]

If you can find a link to that info, I think it qualifies for its own thread.

[AuntB]

Also, John Bolton was interviewed yesterday by Lars Larson at the convention.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073277/posts

[snip]He met with her last year at her office in Alaska about ‘international things!’. I hope you can hear it.. Hopefully later he’ll have a transcript.

Bolton said [paraphrasing]...they talked about missle defense, etc. and she was very knowledgeable and she is a ‘quick study’. He was very impressed.

http://www.larslarson.com/

[El Gato]

New info - Gov Sarah Palin has Natioal security briefings because one unit of the Alaska National Guard, where she is COMMANDER IN CHIEF, is in charge of a Patriot Missle Battery

Not Patriot, which would not be all that unusual. Rather Ground Based Interceptors, designed from the git go to shoot down incoming missile warheads, at much longer range than the Patriot can manage. They are silo based, not transporter and "pod" based, as Patriot is.

Ground Based Interceptor

Patriot.

There are 4 patriots in that pod. As you can easily see, the GBI is much larger.