The Combined Joint Operations Center, or CJOC, is picture to the right. To be honest, I didn't think I could share a picture or discuss to much about it, but this photo was distributed on the unclassified network and thought I'd share. The CJOC is the command and control center here. I do not work in that room; I'm just outside of it. This is what all the visitors want to see when they pass through Kabul and the ISAF IJC. Anyway, it's similar I guess to what you see in some movies. I always think of that old 1980s movie (I think it's called War Games) where a kid almost starts the Cold War from his home computer or something like that. Yes, the CJOC has a whole bunch of computers, phones and screens that track a lot of things. It's very interesting to see, though again, I don't have a whole lot to do with directly.
Interesting. Yeah, "War Games" was a pretty good (and scary) movie. Although, these days, it looks creepy with all those very simple computers keeping the watch over nukes and the Sovjets... The picture reminds me of a scene from "The Simpsons", where Homer travels into space, and the command center in Houston cannot contact the rocket because "all the computers are just there to measure the TV ratings for the launch".
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