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NORAD Preps For A Scaled-Back Version Of Its 65 Year Tradition: Tracking Santa

By Megan Verlee • Dec 18, 2020

Air Force personnel and civilian volunteers worked side-by-side on Christmas Eve 2019 to operate NORAD's Santa tracking hotline. In 2020, the operation will be scaled back because of the pandemic. — Jeff Fitzmorris / U.S. Air Force

Personnel from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs will try to fill in for the volunteers who normally field children's phone calls on Christmas Eve.