The site is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese.
NORAD Tracks Santa is an application also available for smartphones and tablets. Starting from the early hours of the next 24 December, users from all over the world will be able to follow Santa's preparations, checking his route with real-time images thanks to American spy satellites, used for the occasion to protect and monitor “Barba bianca ”, code name“ Big Red One ”.
US fighters, from December 24, will always be in the air to guarantee a safe air corridor to the sled, while Tier 1 and CIA teams will welcome elves around the world: in this way they will be able to deliver gifts to children quickly and insecurity. Always in flight the "Task Force Red", a SAR force formed exclusively by elements of the Delta Force and ready to intervene should it be necessary to exfiltrate the elves in difficulty.
In five locations around the globe (plus another four in reserve, but covered by secrets), refueling points were set up by the Marines for reindeer. The US Navy will provide support with USS Nimitz, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Carl Vinson, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Abraham Lincoln battle fleets. The Aegis systems of Arleigh Burke class destroyers and Ticonderoga class cruisers will from time to time protect airspace. Also formed the "Task Force Santa Claus" with the entire "Los Angeles" force deployed.
It all started in the 1955. A Colorado Springs merchant, to advertise himself, invited the children to call Santa Claus, also giving them a phone number. Unfortunately for the merchant, the one provided was the North American Aerospace Defense Command number. On the night of the 24 December of the 1955, NORAD received thousands of phone calls and the base commander, Colonel Harry Shoup, in full Christmas spirit and amazed everyone, receiving the green light from the secret services, ordered his men to give the exact position of Santa Claus, to those who had called. That day the "NORAD Tracks Santa" was born. To date, what remains an entertainment program, involves hundreds of thousands of children around the world, with 110 thousand phone calls and over 40 thousand emails received last year.
NORAD Tracks Santa is a h24 monitored application from the US Defense, created in collaboration with government agencies, secret services and sponsors such as NASA, Google and Facebook, to name a few. Beyond the sympathy or less that can be felt for American politics, the NORAD Tracks Santa is dedicated to children around the world and to their dreams.
Everything can happen on Christmas Eve and US fighters are ready to protect Santa Claus, so that every child, wherever he is, can get the hope of living a dream.
Franco Iacch
