Judge Advocates in the Empire of Haile Sellasie: Army Lawyers in Ethiopia in the Early 1970s

摘要

While judge advocates currently serve in a variety of locations, from Afghanistan, Germany, and Honduras to Iraq, Italy, and Japan, few in our Corps today remember that Army lawyers also once served in Africa-in the Empire of Ethiopia.rnIn the early 1970s, Army lawyers served on the horn of Africa at the U.S. Army Security Agency Field Station in Asmara, Ethiopia. Asmara's geographic location near the equator and its altitude (7600 feet above sea level) made it the ideal location for a Cold War era "listening station" to monitor Soviet-bloc radio traffic-which explains why there were roughly 3500 Americans in Asmara at "Kagnew Station" in the early 1970s.