However, the 100th AD's tenure at Whiteman did not last long as SAC inactivated the unit on July 26, 1991.

Although both nations remained reluctant to fully share their plans — as late as 1956, Britain did not have targeting information even for SAC aircraft it hosted — redundancies were eliminated by one side asking the other whether it planned to attack various targets.

Although other services opposed such " bootstrapping ", they did not have the IBM 704 computer that SAC used to analyze target priorities so could not offer competing selection lists.

The Habitats Directive Review of Consents for the Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ) did indeed identify thermal pollution on the intertidal zone on the west shore of Southampton Water but this is likely to be from more than this one source.

LMU is unique among SAC members in that it does not have a football program, though it did have one in the past.

General Curtis LeMay, USAF ( former head of the Strategic Air Command and serving at the time as Chief of Staff of the Air Force ), used his considerable influence to allow Producer Sy Bartlett and Director Delbert Mann unprecedented access to various SAC facilities, in the belief that this film would play a vital role in reminding Americans that the Air Force did indeed have its weapons of mass destruction under tight control in sharp contrast to the impressions that the movies Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe ( both based on novels written prior to 1963 whose premise was that accidental nuclear war caused by SAC was not only possible but likely ) would give.

His consoles can give him instant contact with more than seventy bases around the world and with every SAC aircraft.

When LeMay took over command of SAC, it consisted of little more than a few understaffed B-29 bombardment groups left over from World War II.

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.

With the Regular Air Force tanker fleet being used more and more in Southeast Asia after 1965 to support combat operations in South Vietnam, and the demands of the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ), which performed the nuclear deterrence mission.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) departed Greenham Common on 30 June 1964, much to the relief of the local residents ; the thundering jet bombers of SAC came no more, and for several years it was used for USAF storage and as a relief base.

Brodie presented his report in April 1951, but JCS found SAC head LeMay more persuasive.

Since 2005, no more RAF airmen have been promoted to this rank, being promoted to SAC Technician instead.

The Student Activity Council, better known as SAC, is the largest student-run organisation at Harbord Collegiate Institute, which is run by dedicated and active individuals who wish to make students ' stay at Harbord more enjoyable.

* SAC artists created and still create today ASCII & ANSI Text art (. NFO release info file logos, file_id. diz logos, BBS artwork ) and VGA pixel art for other computer groups, BBS's ( bulletin board systems ) and FTP sites, websites and more.

Quiet Revolution has since been distributed to more than 25, 000 viewers across the nation, and SAC has gone on to produce Supreme Injustices and Access Denied ?, released in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Now with more aircraft on the base than there had been for some time, it was necessary to transfer the 98th Strategic Wing detachment as well as Detachment 1, 6985th Security Squadron to RAF Mildenhall, thus bringing to an end the SAC / USAFSS presence on 31 Mar 1970.

In more detail, the basic language design goals of SAC are to:

The SAC crest was a bit wider than the stripe and was placed over the stripe.

Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) bombers flying over the Arctic presented less risk of early warning than using bases in the United Kingdom.

From then on, rather than being deployed for a few months, a permanent SAC presence would be established at bases with aircraft being deployed for three weeks from several SAC bases, being kept on full alert status ready for instant takeoff at their " Reflex Bases ".

There were thirteen bombardment groups assigned to Continental Air Forces just before its redesignation as SAC.

SAC was organized in just one month.

Their positive relationship facilitated Clark ’ s many accomplishments while in Sapporo and accounted for the wide latitude Clark was given in implementing not just SAC programs, but also his influence on the colonial development of Hokkaido.

The degree of cooperation was such by the Cuban Missile Crisis that RAF officers visiting SAC headquarters in Nebraska reported being " treated just like Americans.

These TDYs became a heavy burden for both SAC as well as Military Air Transport Service ( MATS ) which had to transport thousands of personnel and tons of material to and from the United States in just a few days to support these rotations.

* SAC musicians created " MOD " and later also MP3 music ; just as a standalone piece of art or to be used in " Intros ", Demo and other programs such as " Installers ".

The President reluctantly gives the order just before SAC and Omaha, Nebraska are destroyed.

SAC activated the 407th Strategic Fighter Wing at Great Falls with a mission to provide fighter escort for SAC's long-range B-36 Peacemaker The 407th SFW was assigned to Fifteenth Air Force, 39th Air Division and flew F-84 Thunderjets.

By effectively utilizing the Student Involvement Fee, SAC aims to provide educational, entertaining, cultural, and leisure opportunities to complement the students ' academic experience.

In 1957 16th AF was realigned under Strategic Air Command to provide command and control of SAC bases and B-47 Stratojet rotational units assigned and deployed to Spain and Morocco.

In July 1951 SAC deployed the 12th Fighter-Escort Wing to Manston to provide fighter escort for its rotational bombardment wings.

All three provide essential services to students, although SAC represents every student on campus and provides specific services regarding students and student life.

The 1st Combat Evaluation Group ( 1CEVG ) was activated on August 1, 1961 as an independent unit reporting directly to the Deputy Commander of Operations, Strategic Air Command Headquarters, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, to provide command level standardization / evaluation of SAC aircrews, radar scoring of simulated bombing activity by SAC aircraft ; and contingency warfare support of ground directed bombing, with detachments in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

In the United States, three MAJCOMs were established: Strategic Air Command ( SAC ), to provide a long-range striking force capable of bombardment operations in any part of the world ; Air Defense Command ( ADC ), to defend the United States against attack from the air ; and Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), to support the operations of ground forces.

In 1962, SAC activated missile maintenance squadrons to provide maintenance for both the Hound Dog and the ADM-20 Quail decoy missile.

SAC would have the tankers rotated to Shemya where they were re-fueled prior to taking off and refueling the loitering B-52s over Alaska which would loiter outside the Soviet Union to provide rapid first strike or retaliation capability in case of nuclear war.

The station was also used by SAC Cobra Ball and other related projects which monitored missile-associated signals and tracks missiles during boost and re-entry phases to provide reconnaissance for treaty verification and theater ballistic missile proliferation.

The Strategic Air Command's Elite Guard, an Air Police unit first established in December 1956 to provide security at USAF SAC headquarters, was the first USAF unit officially authorized to wear a blue beret ( with affixed SAC patch ) in 1957 as part of their distinct Elite Guard uniform.

The National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) devised detailed plans for nuclear war against China.

SAC was the operational establishment in charge of America's land-based strategic bomber aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992.

But the reality when LeMay assumed command was that SAC had only sixty nuclear capable aircraft, none of which had the long-range capabilities he desired.

The development meant that SAC was no longer dependent on stationing nuclear capable bombers in foreign countries like Spain and Britain, which proved to be politically sensitive in the late 1940s / early 1950s.

During LeMay ’ s command, SAC was able to effect great changes in American nuclear strategy.

At the beginning of the Cold War, SAC was effectively powerless in shaping the American nuclear strategy it was tasked with carrying out.

It was this uncertainty that LeMay entered into upon assuming command of SAC which emboldened him and SAC planners to attempt to unilaterally form American nuclear strategy.

But with the Soviet Union gaining possession of atomic weapons in 1949, SAC was forced to rethink its nuclear strategy.

Under orders from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAC was told its primary objective was bombing targets in order to damage or destroy Soviet ability to deliver nuclear weapons, its secondary objective was stopping Soviet advances into Western Europe, and its tertiary objective was the same as before, destroying Soviet industrial capacity.

The redefinition and expansion of its mission would help SAC to formalize and consolidate its control over nuclear planning and strategy.

SAC ’ s assumption of control over nuclear strategy led to the adoption of a strategy based on the idea of counterforce.

SAC planners understood that as the Soviet Union increased their nuclear capacity, destroying or “ countering ” those forces ( bombers, missiles, etc.

LeMay and SAC ’ s continuing efforts to assume greater control over nuclear strategy were vindicated on August 11, 1960, when Eisenhower approved a plan to create the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff ( dominated by SAC ) to prepare the National Strategic Target List and the Single Integrated Operation Plan ( SIOP ) for nuclear war.

As a result, LeMay was relieved when the Korean War ended in 1953 and he was able to go back to building SAC ’ s arsenal and gaining control over nuclear strategy.

With the end of the war in Vietnam, SAC refocused its efforts back to deterrence of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.

On 27 September 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolving after the August 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt, President George H. W. Bush began taking SAC bomber and associated aerial refuelling aircraft off continuous nuclear alert.

This “ one-two-punch ” by the UK ’ s RAF Bomber Command first ; and then, NATO / SAC second ; was the heart of the nuclear retaliatory attack strategy for the west in the early to mid-Cold War period.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

As the Cold War came to a head in the 1960s, the government felt it best not to leave the use of nuclear weapons in the hands of possibly-renegade generals, including the commander of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.