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Peterson Air Force base in Colorado is getting ready for its annual holiday mission 鈥 tracking Santa鈥檚 storybook sleigh ride around the world.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been working for weeks to tackle the one-day mission.
Miles of wire, dozens of computers and 157 telephone lines will greet hundreds of volunteers today, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported. Volunteers will be answering calls from an estimated 125,000 children around the globe looking for Santa鈥檚 whereabouts.
鈥淲e keep adding stuff every year,鈥 said Staff Sergeant Kyle Kelly after he and a team of airmen taped down phone wires in the call center on Monday.
The call center in a training building will be staffed for 23 hours and Christmas Eve. Volunteers will also share Santa鈥檚 location on Facebook and Twitter. Last year, Santa got 1.6 million Facebook likes.
鈥淲e start in November,鈥 Kelly said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e to test every phone before we bring it in here.鈥
NORAD鈥檚 60th year of tracking Santa involves more than the military. The program is underwritten by contractors who pay for the phones, the computers and the website.
United States First lady Michelle Obama is expected to volunteer, with calls forwarded to her on Christmas Eve.
Volunteers will field a growing number of calls from curious kids from outside the US.
鈥淲e get a lot of calls from Europe, Australia and New Zealand,鈥 said NORAD鈥檚 Stacey Knott, who has organized the Santa tracking for three years.
NORAD is responsible for defending the skies and monitoring the sea approaches for the US and Canada. Its control room was originally inside Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs in a shelter designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
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