As a GCI base, the 918th's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.

In the early 1960s, the USAF relinquished control of the base to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).

It would no longer guide interceptors but only look for enemy aircraft, feeding data to the Spokane Air Defense Sector SAGE DC-15 Direction Center of the 25th NORAD Region.

The Station briefly came back to life when the movie "Cadence", starring Charlie Sheen and Laurence Fishburne, was filmed at the site in 1990.

All structures on site were fully demolished in 2005, and after extensive environmental remediation and 26 years of petitioning, the land was returned to the Tk'emlúps te Secwe̓pemc and officially incorporated into Kamloops Indian Reserve #1 on 20 August 2012.

On 1 April 1962, the Royal Canadian Air Force accepted responsibility for the manning of the radar station.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency