Editing Strategic Air Command (section)

== Lineage ==
* Established as '''Continental Air Forces''' on 13 December 1944<ref name="strategic-air-command.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.strategic-air-command.com/|title=Home Page |work=strategic-air-command.com|access-date=15 May 2016}}</ref>
: Redesignated: '''Strategic Air Command''' on 21 March 1946<ref name="strategic-air-command.com"/>
* Replaced as a specified command by a new unified combatant command, '''[[United States Strategic Command]]''' ([[USSTRATCOM]]), on 1 June 1992;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42077.pdf | title=The Unified Command Plan and Combatant Commands: Background and Issues for Congress | date=3 January 2013 | first=Andrew | last=Feickert | publisher=Congressional Research Service | access-date=15 January 2019 }}</ref> concurrently disestablished as a USAF major command (MAJCOM) same date

;Components
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* [[Second Air Force]]: 21 Mar 1946 (from CAF) – 30 Mar 1946; 1 Nov 1949 – 1 Jan 1975
* [[Eighth Air Force]]: 7 Jun 1946 – 1 Jun 1992
* [[Fifteenth Air Force]]: 31 Mar 1946 – 1 Jun 1992
* [[Sixteenth Air Force]]: 1 Jul 1957 – 15 Apr 1966
* [[IX Troop Carrier Command]]: 21 Mar 1946 (from CAF) – 31 Mar 1946
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;; Air Divisions:
* [[1st Air Division]] (later, 1st Missile Division; 1 Strategic Aerospace Division): 15 Apr 1955 – 20 May 1956; 1 Jan 1958 – 1 Sep 1988
* [[3d Air Division]]: 18 Jun 1954 – 1 Apr 1970; 1 Jan 1975 – 31 Jan 1982
* [[5th Air Division]]: 14 Jan 1951 – 1 Jul 1957
* [[7th Air Division]]: 20 Mar 1951 – 30 Jun 1965; 1 Jul 1978 – 31 Jan 1982
* [[21st Air Division]]: 16 Feb 1951 – 8 Apr 1952; 8 Apr – 16 Jul 1952
* [[42d Air Division]]: 2 Mar 1951 – 8 Jan 1958; 15 Jul 1959 – 9 Jul 1991
* [[58th Air Division]]: 1 Mar – 16 Oct 1948
* [[311th Air Division]]: 31 Mar 1947 – 1 Nov 1949.
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;Overseas components:
[[Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom]] was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces under SAC's [[16th Air Force]] at air bases in North Africa, Spain and Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s.

[[List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command|SAC "Provisional" wings]] were also located in [[Kadena AB]], Okinawa and [[U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield]] / [[U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield|U-Tapao AB]], Thailand during the [[Vietnam War]]

SAC also maintained bomber, tanker, and/or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former [[Ramey AFB]], Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at [[Andersen AFB]], Guam; [[RAF Mildenhall]], [[RAF Fairford]] and [[RAF Alconbury]] in the United Kingdom; [[Moron AB]], Spain; [[Lajes Field]], Azores (Portugal); [[Diego Garcia]], BIOT; and the former [[NAS Keflavik]], Iceland through the 1990s.

SAC also conducted operations from [[RAF Fairford]], [[RAF Alconbury]] and [[RAF Mildenhall]] in the United Kingdom, [[Moron AB]] in Spain, [[Lajes Field]] in the Azores (Portugal), [[RAF Akrotiri]] in Cyprus, [[Incirlik AB]] in Turkey, [[Diego Garcia]] in the [[British Indian Ocean Territory]], and from multiple air bases in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates during the first [[Gulf War]] (Operations [[Desert Shield]] and [[Desert Storm]]) from 1990 to 1991.<ref>[[Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War]]</ref>