As part of the reorganization, SAC's bomber aircraft, ICBMs, strategic reconnaissance aircraft, and command post aircraft were merged with USAF fighter and other tactical aircraft assets and reassigned to the newly-established Air Combat Command ( ACC ).

The USAF nuclear component was then officially combined with the United States Navy's strategic nuclear component, its Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarines, to form United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ), which is headquartered at SAC's former complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

* List of USAF Bomb Wings and Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command

* List of USAF Fighter Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command

* List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command

* List of USAF reconnaissance wings assigned to Strategic Air Command

* List of USAF Strategic Wings assigned to the Strategic Air Command

In the words of USAF General George S. Brown, Commander, Air Force Systems Command in 1972, " The only reason we need ( UAVs ) is that we don't want to needlessly expend the man in the cockpit.

The wing reports to the USAF Air Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, a Direct Reporting Unit ( DRU ) to Headquarters, Air Combat Command ( ACC ).

On 8 February 1959, Strategic Air Command established Beale as an operational USAF base.

In September 1950, Tyndall became an Air Training Command ( ATC ) installation, designated as the USAF Pilot Instructor School.

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

To inject more realism into the training, ATC made arrangements with Strategic Air Command to allow instructor pilots to fly intercept missions against SAC bombers with F-86D ( later L ) Sabre, With the addition of interceptor crew training and the acquisition of interceptor aircraft, HQ USAF decided effective 20 October 1953 to assign ATC responsibility for supporting Air Defense Command's interceptor forces.

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

The initial USAF host unit was the Air Defense Command ( ADC ) 32d Air Base Group, activating on February 8, 1957.

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

USAF officers and airmen arrived in the 1950s to operate a Strategic Air Command radar base built on a hill three miles east of town.

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

On 1 June 1992, as part of the first major reorganization since the creation of USAF, the Air Force inactivated Strategic Air Command and assigned Ellsworth's organizations ( including a renamed 28th Bomb Wing ( 28 BW )) to the newly activated Air Combat Command ( ACC ).

* List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations

The M41 ball cartridge was first used in. 38 revolvers carried by USAF aircrew and Strategic Air Command security police, and by 1961 was in use by the U. S. Army for security police, dog handlers, and other personnel equipped with. 38 Special caliber revolvers.

In December USAF officials announced that TAC would assume responsibility for the fighter weapons school, which it did on 1 February 1958 with the transfer of jurisdiction of Nellis to Tactical Air Command.

These include the 1988 Liethen-Tittle Award ( top pilot graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School ) and U. S. Navy Test Pilot of the Year ( 1991 ).

He attended the United States Air Force ( USAF ) Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, in California, and upon graduation, served as an exchange officer with the U. S. Navy at Strike Test Directorate at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

He was accepted to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960.

With the help of his time as a member of an MTD, Collins accumulated over 1500 hours of flying, the minimum required for the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

That same year the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School became the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, as the Air Force tried to enter into the research of space.

* USAF Pilot Instructors School, 8 October 1967-23 August 1972

* USAF Instrument Pilot Instructor School, 1 December 1951-1 March 1958

In December 1987, Husband was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he attended the USAF Test Pilot School.

* Received the USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training Academic Achievement Award for Class 87-08 ( Vance AFB )

: Re-designated USAF Jet Pilot School, 1 June 1948-1 October 1949

: Re-designated USAF Basic Pilot School ( Single Engine ), 1 June 1948-8 January 1956

Ross graduated from the USAF Test Pilot School ’ s Flight Test Engineer Course in 1976 and was subsequently assigned to the 6510th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

* Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School

He is also a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was an instructor there prior to his assignment in 1966 to the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) program as an astronaut.

* Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Navigator Training School ( and recipient of its Commander's Trophy ), the USAF Institute of Technology, and the USAF Test Pilot School.

He attended the Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was assigned as an astronaut to the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( MOL ) program in 1966.

* USAF Master Astronaut

* USAF Astronaut Badge ( 1964 )

The USAF Astronaut Maneuvering Unit ( AMU ) was developed for the MOL project.

McDivitt was awarded two NASA Distinguished Service Medals ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ; two Air Force Distinguished Service Medals ; four Distinguished Flying Crosses ; five Air Medals ; the Chong Moo Medal from South Korea ; the USAF Air Force Systems Command Aerospace Primus Award ; the Arnold Air Society JFK Trophy ; the Sword of Loyola ; the Michigan Wolverine Frontiersman Award ; and USAF Astronaut Wings.

Like its pilot astronaut counterpart, the Navigator / Observer Astronaut Badge is modified by the addition of the astronaut " shooting star " logo over the USAF shield on the wings.

He was not a NASA astronaut recruit, but made the memorial by virtue of having earned the Astronaut Badge according to the USAF standard by reaching just over 50 miles in altitude on his fatal flight.

File: USAF Astronaut Device. png | Astronaut Badge ( Any Pilot, Navigator, Combat Systems Officer, Observer, Air Battle Manager, or Flight Surgeon Badge with Astronaut Device )