{"id":227824,"date":"2015-04-08T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123444412"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:08:25","slug":"12th-sws-keeping-watch-at-top-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227824","title":{"rendered":"12th SWS keeping watch at &#8216;Top of the World&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123444412\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/04\/150325-F-EX835-026.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Located at the &#8220;Top of the World,&#8221; the 12th Space Warning Squadron&#8217;s location offers a unique and strategic vantage point in the execution of its missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance missions in support of U. S. Strategic Command.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th SWS, one of the 21st Space Wing&#8217;s geographically separated units, operates the Upgraded Early Warning Radar 24\/7. The radar is maintained by U.S. and Canadian Airmen, and is assisted by a U.S., Danish and Greenlandic contractor force. While the unit is small, the strategic importance and criticality of its mission is not.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123444412\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}