also home to an FAA long-range radar site. From 2012 to 2013, the former station was home to a Department of Energy study by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility along with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on air particles over the region. Units and assignments Units Constituted as the 762d Aircraft Control & Warning Squadron on 14 November 1950 Activated on 27 November 1950 Redesignated 762d Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 15 December 1958 Inactivated on 1 March 1970 Redesignated 762nd Radar Squadron on 1 January 1974 Activated on 17 January 1974 Inactivated on 1 July 1984 Constituted as the 762d Air Defense Group on 13 February 1970 Activated on 1 March 1970 Inactivated on 1 January 1974 Disbanded on 27 September 1984 6th Space Warning Squadron (Detachment 1) Organized 1977 Discontinued 1985 Assignments 762nd Squadron 540th Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950 32d Air Division, 6 February 1952 4704th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953 4622d Air Defense Wing, 18 October 1956 Boston Air Defense Sector, 8 January 1957 35th Air Division, 1 April 1966 21st Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 1 March 1970 21st Air Division 17 January 1974 24th Air Division 23 September 1983 – 1 July 1984 762nd Group 21st Air Division, 1 March 1970 – 17 January 1974 See also Rocket launch sites List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons List of military installations in Massachusetts References Citations Bibliography Further reading Information for North Truro AFS, MA USAFHRA History search, 762 Radar Squadron External links The MITRE site in South Truro https://web.archive.org/web/20110509101704/http://www.astronautix.com/sites/nortruro.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080929190446/http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0103/Brodeur/Brodeur.html http://www.nps.gov/archive/caco/news/GeneralHighlands.html http://www.flra.gov/decisions/v03/03-017-3.html http://www.radomes.org/museum/savethe35.html https://books.google.com/books?id=tXnKhejsTskC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=north+truro+air+force+station&source=web&ots=NgehgXgyqd&sig=dW-wc9gV1IUzu4LavV-Fy-0SqYc#PPA11,M1 http://www.flight800.org/petition/pet_sect4.htm A YouTube video inside of one of the houses at the base. Mention of North Truro in an arms control treaty 1951 establishments in Massachusetts 1994 disestablishments in Massachusetts Aerospace Defense Command military installations Buildings and structures in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Cape Cod National Seashore Installations of the United States Air Force in Massachusetts Military installations closed in 1994 Military installations established in 1951 Semi-Automatic Ground Environment sites Truro, Massachusetts