AEWBARRONPAC

AEWBARRONPAC, officially known as Airborne Early Warning Barrier Squadron, Pacific, was a United States Navy unit established in the 1950s during the Cold War. Its primary mission was to provide airborne early warning coverage using Lockheed WV-2 (EC-121) Warning Star aircraft, patrolling the Pacific Barrier between Midway Island and Alaska to detect potential Soviet bomber or missile threats approaching North America. AEWBARRONPAC crews operated long, grueling flights, often in challenging weather conditions, to maintain a continuous radar surveillance line. The unit was disestablished in the mid-1960s as advances in radar technology and satellite surveillance made its mission obsolete.