The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

Among the items scheduled for acceleration in the near future are the Polaris and B70 programs, strengthening of the airborne alert system of the Strategic Air Command, and improved battlefield surveillance systems.

( The Senate, on its own, decided to provide additional B-52 and other long-range bombers for the Strategic Air Command.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

The first problem that caused the pause in reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, an Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) U-2 flew over Sakhalin Island in the Far East by mistake.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) distributed its shorter-ranged B-47 Stratojet medium bombers to civilian airports and sent aloft its B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers.

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

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

After completing his training, Powers was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia, as an F-84 Thunderjet pilot.

* Strategic Air Command, a former operational establishment of the United States Air Force

* Strategic Air Command-The arm of the United States Air Force that was responsible for strategic power projection and control of the US's airborne nuclear deterrent.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) was both a Major Command ( MAJCOM ) of the United States Air Force and a " specified command " of the United States Department of Defense.

Source: Ron Mixer, “ The Genealogy of the Strategic Air Command ”, Battermix.

Within the United States, the USAAF was divided into three separate commands: Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), Air Defense Command ( ADC ), and Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

SAC's original headquarters was located at Bolling Field in Washington, DC, the headquarters of the disestablished Continental Air Forces, with the headquarters organization of CAF being redesignated as Strategic Air Command.

He is assisted by the Deputy Commander and the Chief of Staff, who are responsible for Strategic Command and Land Force Command.

** Strategic Command-Strategic Command is responsible for all of the long term and strategic concerns of the RFMF, including welfare, legal issues, sustainability issues etc.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

The United States Space Surveillance Network ( SSN ), a division of The United States Strategic Command, has been tracking objects in Earth's orbit since 1957 when the Soviets opened the space age with the launch of Sputnik I.

The United States Strategic Command is primarily interested in the active satellites, but also tracks space debris which upon reentry might otherwise be mistaken for incoming missiles.

Strategic Air Command was created with the stated mission of providing long range bombing capabilities anywhere in the world.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

The development of jet aircraft, specifically the B-47 Stratojet, was a key component in building the Strategic Air Command ’ s bombing capacity.

Following the proposal of the Sentinel and Safeguard decisions on American ABM systems, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in November 1969 ( SALT I ).

Development on the Minuteman-II began in 1962 as the Minuteman-Is entered the Strategic Air Command ’ s nuclear force.

The American Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) also began to send its own agents to France in cooperation with the SOE and the French BCRA agents in Operation Jedburgh.

Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands.

In July 1963, the 4028th Strategic Reconnaissance Weather Wing, equipped with U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, began flying global missions from Davis-Monthan.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

In 1962, Nhu began work on the ambitious Strategic Hamlet Program, an attempt to build fortified villages that would provide security for rural Vietnamese.

Laurance F. Safford, USN, who was responsible for the interwar Mid Pacific Strategic Direction Finding Net, and the decoding of the Japanese PURPLE cipher messages for the attack on Pearl Harbor, began a lengthy analysis of the Earhart flight during the 1970s.

In 2006, Saudia began the process of dividing itself into Strategic Business Units ( SBU ); the catering unit was the first to be privatized.

In the early 1970s SAC began to consolidate it's B-52 assets as the age of the manned bomber was reduced with the advent of Intercontinental Strategic Ballistic Missiles.

* November 1, 1964 The 321st Strategic Missile Wing ( SMW ) was organized at Grand Forks AFB and construction began on its Minuteman II missile complex.

He began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

The 4043rd Strategic Wing began KC-135 Stratotanker operations in February 1960 and B-52 Stratofortress operations in June 1960.

Titan-1 Strategic Missile ( SM ) production began during the final stages of the Research and Development program.

In attempt to bring intelligence agencies under the control of the civilian-led government as part of the process of democratization that began in Brazil in 1985, President Fernando Collor de Mello replaced the SNI with the short-lived ( 1990 – 94 ) Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos ( SAE ) or Strategic Affairs Secretariat.

Although wishing to return to the Middle East as a member of the OSS, when he found out that that was impossible Fellers, in the summer of 1943, left his job in the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), where he played a central role in planning psychological warfare, and once again began working for General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific.

In 1951, the Strategic Air Command began to eliminate its combat group by reducing the group headquarters token strength and attaching the flying squadrons directly to the wing ; therefore, wings replaced the medium bombardment groups attached to Far East Air Forces ( FEAF ) Bomber Command for combat.

In January 1958, the Strategic Air Command began accepting delivery of Snark missiles at Patrick Air Force Base for training, and in 1959, the 702d Strategic Missile Wing was formed.

Horrified, he began to deal directly with the US Office of Strategic Services but was betrayed by a friend and recalled to Berlin.

As a result of the Strategic Defence Review No. 17 Squadron disbanded on 31 March 1999 and began the gradual drawdown of the base.

A new weapon, the AGM-131 SRAM II, began development in 1981, intended to arm the resurrected B-1B, but it was cancelled in 1991 by then president George H. W. Bush along with most of the U. S. Strategic Modernization effort ( including Peacekeeper Mobile ( Rail ) Garrison, Small ICBM and Minuteman III modernization ) in an effort by the U. S. to ease nuclear pressure on the disintegrating Soviet Union.

A major part of Criminal psychology, known as offender profiling, began in the 1940s when the United States Office of Strategic Services asked William L. Langer's brother Walter C. Langer, a well renowned psychiatrist, to draw up a profile of Adolf Hitler.