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native_name = República de Bolivia |

| explanation=

common_name = Bolivia |

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image_flag = Flag of Bolivia.svg |

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image_coat = BoliviaArms.gif |

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image_map = LocationBolivia.png |

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national_motto = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Morir antes que esclavos vivir''<br>([[English language|English]]: "To die before living as slaves")

}} Add SFBAProject tag. [[User:ConradPino|Conrad T. Pino]] 07:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

|national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |

official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Quechua language|Quechua]], [[Aymara language|Aymara]], [[Guaraní language|Guaraní]] |

==Multi-Function Station==

capital = [[La Paz]], [[Sucre]]{{ref|1}} |

MVAFS was a multi-function station: a [[Semi Automatic Ground Environment|SAGE]] long range radar site operated by the 666th Radar Squadron (host squadron)<ref name="ref_mil_museum">{{cite web

latd=17|latm=00|latNS=S|longd=65|longm=00|longEW=W|

|url = http://www.militarymuseum.org/MillValleyAFS.html

government_type = [[Unitary republic]] |

|title = Mill Valley Air Force Station

leader_titles = [[President of Bolivia|President]] |

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

leader_names = [ghhg[Evo Morales]] |

|publisher = [[California State Military Museum]]

largest_city = [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra|Santa Cruz]] |

}}</ref>; an AN/FSS-7 [[SLBM]] detection radar site operated by Detachment 3 14th Missile Warning Squadron<ref name="ref_mil_museum" />; a [[Project Nike|Nike]] missile air defense control site (San Francisco Defense Area Site SF-90DC<ref name="ref_mil_museum" /><ref name="ref_missile_sites">{{cite web

most important person = [[Jannett]] |

|url = http://ed-thelen.org/loc-c.html#SF-90DC

area = 1,098,581 |

|title = Locations of Former NIKE MISSILE SITES (text)

areami² = 421,075 | <!-- Do not rem-->

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = Ed Thelen

}}</ref><ref>{{cite web

|url = http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/cold-war.htm

|title = GGNRA - Cold War Era, 1952-1974

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = [[National Park Service]]

}}</ref>) operated by the Army Air Defense Command Post for the 40th Artillery Brigade from 1959 until June 1971 and the 13th Air Defense Artillery Group from July 1971 to August 1974<ref name="ref_mil_museum" />; a [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA) Joint Surveillance System (JSS) Facility J-33<ref name="ref_missile_sites" /><ref>{{cite web

|url = http://nas-architecture.faa.gov/nas/___location/location_data.cfm?fid=11342

|title = MILL VALLEY LRR SURVEILLANCE [QMV]

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = [[Federal Aviation Administration]]

}}</ref>

. I served at MVAFS from 1972 to 1974 and personally witnessed these functions. More to follow later. [[User:ConradPino|Conrad T. Pino]] 08:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

==References==

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