Then-NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado on Dec. 24, 2014. (Brennan Linsley/AP ...

FILE – NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24 ...

NORAD also tracks Santa with U.S. Air Force F-15, F-16, F-22 and Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets. The fighter pilots meet with Santa off the coast of Newfoundland on Christmas Eve to welcome ...

What is a Santa tracker? Santa tracking is a well-loved ... this website is actually run by the US military. It fuses gruff colonels presenting a video about Santa Claus with live, up-to-the ...

(WJHG/WECP) - Deep in the heart of Tyndall Air Force Base, behind barbed wire fences ... They’ve got to make sure Santa’s spot on the map is precise. “The big man in red, he has a very ...

During the Cold War, Air Force Col. Harry Shoup was one of the ... And then there was a small voice that just asked: "Is this Santa Claus?" MAN: Dad was very straitlaced, very disciplined.

She says the NORAD Santa Tracker, which reaches millions of children around the world every year, is his "legacy". NORAD’s tracking of Santa is a military operation in itself beginning on 1 ...

US Air Force on Tuesday said the Santa Claus need not be concerned about recent mystery drone sighting over New Jersey as an annual tradition of "tracking" Saint Nick is in action. The US Air ...

“Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t care about Santa Claus,” he said. Shoup died in 2009. His children told the StoryCorps podcast in ...