The NORAD Santa Tracker which has delighted kids for 69 years began when a child accidentally called a top-secret Pentagon ...

according to the U.S. military. Thousands had already come through Tuesday, NORAD said. The scale of the effort is significant: The Army has said the tracker is supported by the volunteer work of ...

NORAD typically scans the heavens for potential threats. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers are fielding questions like, “When ...

A child's wrong number call sparked NORAD's Santa tracking tradition in ... Shoup sat beside a very important military hotline. This particular phone couldn't be connected from the switchboard ...

Then-NORAD Chief of Staff Maj ... Shoup wanted to boost morale for the troops and public alike. “Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t ...