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SAC PERSONNEL THROUGH SIMULATED ENEMY ATTACK THREAT, RETALIATORY ATTACK, AND POST-ATTACK PROCEDURES. EMPHASIZES ON-GOING TRAINING REQUIRED BY ACTIVE DUTY AND NATIONAL GUARD COMBAT AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL TO MEET OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE NEEDS."
US Air Force film
SS-330
Public domain film slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a
Department of Defense Specified
Command and a
United States Air Force (
USAF)
Major Command (
MAJCOM) responsible for
Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the
U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "
Nuclear Triad," land-based strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. SAC also operated all USAF jet aerial refueling, strategic reconnaissance, and airborne command post aircraft.
SAC primarily consisted of the
Second Air Force (2AF),
Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the
Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while
SAC headquarters included Directorates for Operations &
Plans, Command &
Control,
Maintenance,
Training,
Communications, and
Personnel. At a lower echelon, headquarters divisions included
Aircraft Engineering,
Missile Concept, and Strategic Communications.
In
1992, as part of an overall post-Cold War reorganization of the
U.S. Air Force, SAC was disestablished as both a Specified Command and as a MAJCOM, and its personnel and equipment transferred to
Air Combat Command,
Air Mobility Command,
Pacific Air Forces and
United States Air Forces in
Europe, while SAC's headquarters complex at
Offutt AFB, Nebraska was concurrently transferred to the
United States Strategic Command (
USSTRATCOM) which was established as a
Unified Combatant Command...
Strategic Air Command was originally established in the
U.S. Army Air Forces on March 21, 1946, acquiring part of the personnel and facilities of the
World War II command for
CONUS air defense,
Continental Air Forces (
CAF)...
SAC transferred to the United States Air Force on
26 September 1947, concurrent with the latter's establishment as a separate military service...
It was described as the "
Western Pentagon," a "...four-story, reinforced concrete and masonry office building..." above ground and a "...segregated, adjacent three-story below ground command post." This was the description of what would become
Building 500 at
Offutt AFB and the new headquarters complex built expressly for SAC, with construction commencing in
1955. SAC headquarters moved from the A Building at Offutt to Building 500 in
1957.
The underground nuclear bunker "...had 24-inch thick walls and base floor,…10-inch thick intermediate floors, and 24-to-42-inch thick roof"—containing a war room with "six 16-foot data display screens" and "the capacity to sustain up to 800 people underground for two weeks
."...
After SAC's
1st Missile Division was activated on 18 March 1957, SAC HQ established the
Office of
Assistant CINCSAC (SAC
MIKE) at the
Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in
California on 1 January
1958. SAC MIKE was responsible for missile development liaison, theintermediate range
Jupiter and
Thor missiles having been transferred to SAC for alert in 1958.
Beginning on
1 February 1958, a SAC Liaison
Team was also located at the
NORAD Command Post at
Ent AFB,
Colorado...
The 31 May 1992 USAF reorganization moved SAC bomber, reconnaissance and aerial command post aircraft, along with all
Tactical Air Command units and aircraft, to the newly established Air Combat Command (
ACC). Air Mobility Command (
AMC) inherited most of SAC's
KC-135 Stratotanker and
KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tanker force...
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