That's the FAA, for sure. In 1o82-83 I worked for the FAA as an ATCS (controller) at Edwards RAPCON (an FAA facility, not Air Force, although we primarily handled military traffic). We covered a huge area, and had numerous radars linked through a computer system, with only one remaining ARTS III radar left right at Edwards AFB. That was the only "raw raw" radar left serving the facility, and the only one showing a primary target (not just a computer generated target and data block). It was scheduled to be decommissioned, which would disable the only remaining Precision Approach Radar in Southern California. All of our controllers objected to that, but that fell on deaf bureaucratic ears. Late one winter night, during a massive storm, every airport in SOCAL had gone below minimums, including us, and we got an urgent call from Flight Service that a flight of 100+F-4s from George AFB were stuck in the weather with nowhere to go and no tankers available. We got all of them safely on the ground using PAR approaches. Of course, three days later, right on schedule, the ARTS III radar was devomissioned, and we could no longer provide those zero-zero approaches.
