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The Base is not officially a town

The Grissom Air Force Base is not officially a town. I suggest taking out the term town.

EC-135L PACCS Radio Relay Aircraft/Mission

This article rather cryptically states:

"From the early 1970s, the wing supported worldwide tanker task forces by deploying KC-135 aircraft to Europe, Alaska, Greenland, and the Pacific. In 1975, the 3d ACCS was inactivated and its specialized EC-135s were transferred to the 70th Air Refueling Squadron."

In addition to the tanking mission, the 305th also operated several EC-135L PACCS (Post Attack Command and Control System) aircraft from 1966 to 1992. As the name implies, these communications relay aircraft were a part of SAC's post-attack infrastructure that would have allowed the command to continue communicating with its assets in the event its primary communications systems were compromised by an enemy's first strike (basically a part of the Looking Glass mission performed in conjunction with other 135-based airborne command post aircraft). These aircraft were still fully capable tankers with, as I recall, the added capability to suck fuel as well as dispense it through the booms. The aircraft were originally assigned to the 3d ACCS, but as the article correctly states were passed onto the 70th ARS in the 70s.Jmdeur (talk) 17:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Convert output is MOS compliant

@Pennsy22: No problem, and I don't mind what symbol appears in the wikitext for {{convert}} (or the closely related {{cvt}}), but FYI my edit did not change anything in the output. When I fix convert errors I often "clean" the wikitext because people tend to copy existing templates and IMHO it is best to encourage use of easily typed characters in wikitext. Examples:

{{cvt|-20|-|30|ft}} → −20–30 ft (−6.1–9.1 m) (convert with hyphen for minus and for range)
{{cvt|−20|–|30|ft}} → −20–30 ft (−6.1–9.1 m) (exactly the same output using minus and en dash in input)
{{cvt|20|x|30|ft}} → 20 ft × 30 ft (6.1 m × 9.1 m) (convert with x for range)
{{cvt|20|×|30|ft}} → 20 ft × 30 ft (6.1 m × 9.1 m) (exactly the same output using mutiply in input)

Johnuniq (talk) 05:21, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the hyphen, minus, en dash thing can be very confusing and I know a lot of people get them mixed up. I used to use the x instead of ×, but I do a lot of editing in Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships and they require × so I'm very used to it, and now I prefer it. The editor I use has it quick linked at the bottom of the editor screen so it's easy to get to. You did find a missing pipe in one of my conversion though, I went back and fixed it. Thanks Pennsy22 (talk) 05:37, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]