ROME-- Airmen at the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome N.Y. hold a training session on Dec. 12 2017 to prepare for Santa tracking operations on Christmas Eve. Pictured front to back are Master Cpl. Adam Kittson of the Royal Canadian Air Force and Maj. Kip Trausch and Master Sgt. Derek Gagnon of the 224th Air Defense Squadron. Manned primarily by New York Air National Guardsmen and a Canadian Forces detachment EADS is a unit of the Continental U.S. North American AerospaceDefense Command (CONR).