Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena (NICAP.org):
(Search term: “Strategic Air Command Base”)
(“Strategic Air Command Bases”)
(“Strategic Air Command” “Base”)
(“Strategic Air Command” “Bases”)
(“SAC Base”)
(“SAC Bases”)
(“SAC” “Base”)
NICAP.org article:
“Alphabetical List and Histories of All Nuclear SAC
Bases by State or Country”
Text by NICAP.org:
“SAC was established on March 21, 1946 as one of three
commands of the US Army Air Forces. Initially under General George Kenny at Bolling Field, Washington,
D.C., SAC headquarters settled at Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska
under the command of General Curtis LeMay In October of 1948. The new separate
Air Force was born September 18, 1947. Part of the SAC Mission certainly was to
provide “long range offensive operations in any part of the world” in the form
of a nuclear reach as a deterrent to future aggression.
The Alphabetical Review is a list of bases, air
stations, and airports that the United States Air Force has occupied since
1947. Many bases have had name changes, so each separate name has been listed.
AB - Air Base, AS - Air Station, AFB - Air Force Base,
AFS – Air Force Station, (M/I)AP - (Municipal/International) Airport, RAF -
Royal Air Force Station/Base”
Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:
Quote from the above Wikipedia article:
“Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United
States Department of Defense (DoD) 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,’ with SAC having control of
land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or
ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles
(SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).
SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance
aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial
refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air
National Guard (ANG).
However, SAC did not operate the KB-50, WB-50 and
WB-47 weather reconnaissance aircraft operated through the mid and late 1960s
by the Air Weather Service, nor did SAC operate the HC-130 or MC-130 operations
aircraft capable of aerial refueling helicopters that were assigned to Tactical
Air Command (TAC), then Military Airlift Command (MAC), and from 1990 onward,
those MC-130 aircraft operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command
(AFSOC), or any AFRES (now Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)) or ANG tactical
aerial refueling aircraft (e.g., HC-130, MC-130) operationally gained by TAC,
MAC or AFSOC.
SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF),
Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC
headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans,
Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and
Personnel. At a lower echelon, SAC headquarters divisions included Aircraft
Engineering, Missile Concept,[1] 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
redistributed among the Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Mobility Command (AMC),
Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), and Air
Education and Training Command (AETC), while SAC's central headquarters complex
at Offutt AFB, Nebraska was concurrently transferred to the newly created United
States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), which was established as a joint Unified
Combatant Command to replace SAC's Specified Command role.
In 2009, SAC's previous USAF MAJCOM role was
reactivated and redesignated as the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC),
with AFGSC eventually acquiring claimancy and control of all USAF bomber
aircraft and the USAF strategic ICBM force.[2]”
Wikipedia article: “Offutt Air Force Base”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Offutt Air Force Base /ˈʌfæt/
(IATA: OFF, ICAO: KOFF, FAA LID: OFF) is a U.S. Air Force
base near Omaha, and lies adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska. It is
the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the 557th Weather
Wing, and the 55th Wing (55 WG) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), the latter
serving as the host unit.
Strategic Air Command
At one minute past midnight, on 9 November 1948,
Offutt gained international prominence when it became the host base for
Headquarters Strategic Air Command, which was moved from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Secretary of
the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial
long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was
centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the
existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to (then) stay safely out
of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.”
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/2015/12/google-website-searches-focus-on-1952_24.html
(b-29s-over-korea.com image)
Map of Strategic Air
Command (SAC)/
STRATCOM Military Bases, U.S.A.
This is a photo I took of Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha,
Nebraska, from an airline while on final approach to Eppley
(wikimedia.org photo)
