Editing Strategic Air Command (section)

== References ==
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<ref name=Baugher>{{cite web |last=Baugher |first=Joseph F. |author-link=Joe Baugher |title=Welcome to Joe Baugher's Home Page!|url=http://www.joebaugher.com |publisher=JoeBaugher.com}} '''Individual aircraft/model pages''': [http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/newb2_1.html B-2A], [http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b47.html B-47], [http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b36.html B-36], [http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b52.html B-52] ([http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_bombers/b52_9.html B-52D)]</ref>

<ref name=Boyne>{{citation |author-link=Walter J. Boyne|last=Boyne |first=Walter J |title=Beyond The Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force 1947–1997 |place=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1997}}</ref>

<ref name=Clark>{{cite report |last=Clark |first=Major Rita F. |date=1 May 1990 |title=SAC Missile Chronology 1939–1988 |url=http://www.siloworld.net/SAC/SAC%20Missile%20Chronology-6-4.pdf |publisher=Office of the Historian, HQ. SAC, Offutt AFB |access-date=2013-09-26 |quote=Creation of the new command was achieved by redesignating Headquarters Continental Air Forces ... 1958...1 January Headquarters SAC established the Office of Assistant CINCSAC (SAC MIKE) at Inglewood, California. This position was designated to serve as an extension of Headquarters SAC and was responsible for working closely with the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division ... 1958...17 June The Air Force accepted delivery of the first Titan I ICBM from the Martin Company, formerly the Glenn L Martin Aircraft Company. ... 1959...8 June First SAC launch of a Quail missile. The launch took place over the Eglin Gulf Test Range. ... 1961...4 August Work was completed on all three Titan I ICBM complexes at the 724th Strategic Missile Squadron, Lowry AFB, Colorado, and they were turned over to the Strategic Air Command by the Army Corps of Engineers. ... 1961 ... 7 December Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara canceled the Mobile Minuteman development program. ... 1966 ... 1 July Headquarters SAC organized a special agency, Ballistic Missile Evaluation (BME), to evaluate and make formal reports to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the reliability and capability of the various SAC ICBM weapon systems. ... 1966...3–7 April The Strategic Air Command conducted its first missile combat competition. ... 17 April The first attempted launch of a Minuteman II ICBM by means of the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) ... 1969 ... 29 July The first flight-test of the SRAM was successful. The missile, launched from a B-52H, flew down the White Sands Missile Range and impacted in the target area. ... 1973 ... 9 January Operational testing and Evaluation (OT&E, nicknamed Bullet Blitz) of the SRAM from B-52 aircraft began at Holloman AFB, New Mexico.}}</ref>

<ref name=factsheets>{{cite web |title=Air Force Fact Sheets |url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/ |format=search page |publisher=USAF website }}: [https://archive.today/20130626170256/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=109 KC-10], [https://archive.today/20120629083158/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=110 KC-135], [http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5762 LGM-118A Peacekeeper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423200731/http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5762 |date=23 April 2013 }}, [http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=334 SA-2 SAM] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404193745/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=334 |date=4 April 2013 }}</ref>

<ref name=Fisher>{{cite report |last1=Fisher |first1=Lt Col David R. |last2=Roig-Compton |first2=Captain Aida E. |date=1 May 1990 |orig-year=rewritten from 1976 report |title=From Snark to Peacekeeper: A Pictorial History of Strategic Air Command Missiles |url=http://www.siloworld.net/DOWNLOADS/Snark%20to%20Peacekeeper%20Reduced.pdf |publisher=Office of the Historian, HQ. SAC, Offutt AFB. NE. 1990. |access-date=2013-09-26 |quote=Project "Added Effort", the Air Force nickname for the programmed phaseout of all first-generation ICBMs, began on 1 May 1964 when the first Atlas D's were taken off alert at the 576th Strategic Missile Squadron, Vandenberg AFB, California. ... SAC bubmitted a requirement to the Air Staff on 12 February 1959 calling for the first mobile Minuteman unit to be operational no later than January 1973....tests to be conducted, nicknamed "Operation Big Star." ... The Mobile Minuteman concept, Operation Big Star, test train rolls through the mountains of Utah in 1960.}}</ref>

<ref name=GlobalSecurity>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/agency/sac.htm |title=Strategic Air Command |publisher=Global Security |last=Pike |first=John |date=24 July 2011 |access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=HS-61>{{cite report |date=c. 1957 |title=History of Strategic Air Command: Chapter III Operations and Training |url=http://www.alternatewars.com/WW3/WW3_Documents/USAF/SAC_Historic_Study_61_Partial.htm |format=partial transcript at AlternateWars.com |volume=Historical Study No. 61 |publisher=Historical Division, SAC Office of Information |access-date=2013-09-27 |archive-date=2 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002120320/http://www.alternatewars.com/WW3/WW3_Documents/USAF/SAC_Historic_Study_61_Partial.htm |url-status=dead }} Following are the bases assigned on 21 March:

* [[Abilene Army Air Field]], Texas<!-- (sub-base of Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas)-->
* [[Alamogordo Army Air Field]], New Mexico<!-- -->
* [[Andrews Field]], Maryland<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Boiling Field)-->
* Arlington Auxiliary #4<!-- (satellite of La Junta Army Air Field, Colorado)-->
* [[Avon Park Army Air Field]], Florida
* [[Bolling Field]], Washington, D. C. , 
* Caddo Mills Auxiliary #1<!-- (satellite of Majors Field, Texas)-->
* Cash, Texas, Auxiliary #2<!-- (satellite of Majors Field, Texas)-->
* [[Castle Field]], California
* Center Auxiliary #2, Parma, New Mexico<!-- (satellite of Deming Army Air Field, New Mexico)-->
* [[Chico Army Air Field]], California<!-- (sub-base of Castle Field, California)-->
* [[Clovis Army Air Field]], New Mexico
* [[Davis-Monthan Field]], Arizona
* [[Deming Army Air Field]], New Mexico<!-- (sub-base of Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico)-->
* [[Dow Field]], Maine
* [[Fairmont Army Air Field]], Nebraska (sub-base of Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska)
* [[Fort Sumner Army Airfield]], New Mexico<!-- (satellite of Deming Army Air Field, New Mexico) (technical ex post facto possession only; Fort Sumner Army Airfield was reassigned to the Corps of Engineers 5 March 1946) -->
* [[Fort Worth Army Air Field]], Texas
* [[Geiger Field]], Washington<!-- (and Seven Mile Gunnery Range Auxiliary)-->
* [[Gowen Army Air Field]], Idaho<!-- (sub-base of Walla Walla Army Air Field, Washington)-->
* [[Grand Island Army Air Field]], Nebraska
* [[Great Bend Army Air Field]], Kansas<!-- (sub-base of Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas)-->
* [[Greensboro-Highpoint Army Air Field]], North Carolina<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Greensboro Oversea Replacement Depot (ORD))-->
* Greensboro Oversea Replacement Depot (ORD), North Carolina<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Headquarters Strategic Air Command)-->
* [[Grenier Army Air Field]], New Hampshire
* [[Harvard Army Air Field]], Nebraska<!-- (sub-base of Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska)-->
* [[Colorado Springs Tent Camp|Headquarters Area]], Colorado Springs, Colorado
* [[Kearney Army Air Field]], Nebraska
* Kearns Oversea Replacement Depot (ORD), Utah<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Headquarters Strategic Air Command)-->
* [[Kirtland Army Air Field]], New Mexico
* [[La Junta Army Air Field]], Colorado<!-- (sub-base of Clovis Army Air Field, New Mexico)-->
* Las Animas Auxiliary #2, Colorado<!-- (satellite of La Junta Army Air Field, Colorado)-->
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* [[MacDill Army Air Field]], Tampa, Florida
* [[Majors Field]], Texas<!-- (satellite of Abilene Army Air Field, Texas)-->
* [[McCook Army Air Field]], Nebraska<!-- (sub-base of Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska)-->
* [[Mountain Home Army Air Field]], Idaho<!-- (sub-base of Walla Walla Army Air Field, Washington)-->
* [[Oscoda Army Air Field]], Michigan<!-- (sub-base /range of Selfridge Army Air Field, Michigan)-->
* [[Peterson Field]], Colorado
* [[Pratt Army Air Field]], Kansas<!-- (sub-base of Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas)-->
* [[Pueblo Army Air Base]], Colorado<!-- (sub-base of Clovis Army Air Field, New Mexico)-->
* [[Rapid City Army Air Field]], South Dakota
* [[Richmond Army Air Base]], Virginia<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Bolling Field, D. C. )-->
* Rocky Ford Auxiliary #1, Colorado<!-- (satellite of La Junta Army Air Field, Colorado)-->
* [[Roswell Army Air Base]], New Mexico
* Roswell Auxiliary #3, New Mexico, 
* [[Salt Lake City Army Air Field]], Utah<!-- (under command jurisdiction of Kearns ORD)-->
* [[Selfridge Army Air Field]], Michigan
* [[Seymour-Johnson Field]], North Carolina
* [[Sioux City Army Air Field]], Iowa<!-- (sub-base of Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Kansas)-->
* [[Sioux Falls Army Air Field]], South Dakota
* [[Smoky Hill Army Air Field]], Salina, Kansas
* South Auxiliary #1, Deming, New Mexico<!-- (satellite of Deming Army Air Field, New Mexico)-->
* South Sulphur Auxiliary #3, Texas<!-- (satellite of Majors Field, Texas)-->
* [[Tonopah Army Air Field]], Nevada<!-- (sub-base/range of Castle Field, California)-->
* [[Walla Walla Army Air Field]], Washington.</ref>

<ref name=Lloyd>{{cite book |last=Lloyd |year=2000 |edition=1st |title=A Cold War Legacy: A Tribute to Strategic Air Command |publisher=Pictorial Histories Publishing Co |isbn=1-575100-52-5}}</ref>

<ref name=Mueller>{{cite report |last=Mueller |first=Robert |year=1989 |title=Air Force Bases |url=https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |volume=I: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 |publisher=Office of Air Force History |isbn=0-912799-53-6 |page=600 |access-date=2013-08-15}}</ref>

<ref name=Rosenberg>{{cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=David A |date=June 1979 |title=American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision |jstor=1894674 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=66 |number=1 |pages=62–87 |doi=10.2307/1894674 }}</ref>

<ref name=SAC1969>{{cite report |volume=Historical Summary 116 |title=History of the Strategic Air Command: 1969 |url=http://minotb52ufo.com/archives/strategic_air_command/sac_hist_fy69_vol1_ch1.pdf |publisher=Office of Command History |access-date=2013-08-26 |quote=[from SAC] transfer, on 1 July 1968, of Homestead AFB [and] Altus AFB ... The definition of [[CONUS]] was that used for the USAF program document, PD-70-3: the contiguous states... cuts were directed by USAF...to keep assignments within the strength and man-year ceilings established by the ... Secretary of Defense ... The overall reduction, directed by USAF, was known as [[Project 693]] ...<sup>77</sup> ... the [[18th Strategic Aerospace Division]] (SAD) was discontinued on 2 July.<!--p. 21--> ... SAC had 64 detachments at the end of FY-69, an increase of nine, offset by a reduction of three. One discontinued was Detachment 4, [[1st Combat Evaluation Group]] (CEG), [[Radar Bomb Scoring Division|Oronogo, Missouri]]. It was the second detachment of the 1CEG to be inactivated in 1968.<sup>100</sup> ... Scoring activity stopped on 15 December, the equipment was moved,<sup>105</sup> and the detachment inactivated on 25 January.<sup>106</sup> The other two reductions were Detachments 3 and 19, 3902nd Support Squadron, at Altus and Homestead AFBs, where Manpower Evaluation Teams were no longer required. ... 100. Det 13, Ellisville, Miss, discontinued 2 Jun 68; Hist SAC, Jan–Jun 68, pp. 14–17.}}</ref>

<ref name=Tillman>{{cite book |last=Tillman |first=Barrett |title=LeMay |url=https://archive.org/details/lemay00till |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2007 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lemay00till/page/94 94]|isbn=9781403971357 }}</ref>

<ref name=Wack>{{cite book |last=Wack |first=Fred J| year=1992 |title=The Secret Explorers: Saga of the 46th/72nd Reconnaissance Squadrons |publisher=Seeger's Print |asin=B0006EZ8GQ}}</ref>

<ref name=Weitze>{{cite report |last=Weitze |first=Karen J. |date=November 1999 |title=Cold War Infrastructure for Strategic Air Command: The Bomber Mission |url=http://cryptocomb.org/Cold%20War%20Infrastructure%20for%20Strategic%20Air%20Command-The%20Bomber%20Mission.pdf |publisher=United States Army Corps of Engineers |access-date=2013-08-15 |quote=The first six B-36s arrived at [[Sidi Slimane Air Base|Sidi Slimane]], another SAC base built in [[French Morocco]], in early December 1951, completing their 5,000-mile training flight from Carswell Air Force Base ... SAC built approximately 50 to 60 of its second generation bomber maintenance hangars at approximately 46 Air Force installations in the U.S. and internationally between 1952 and 1955}}</ref>

<ref name=Worden>{{cite report |last=Worden |first=Col. Mike |date=July 2000 |title=Rise of the Fighter Generals: The Problem of Air Force Leadership 1945–1982 |url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA338755 |publisher=Air University Press |isbn=1-58566-048-5 |access-date=2013-08-30 |quote=43. Richard H. Kohn and Joseph Harahan, eds., ''Strategic Air Warfare An Interview with Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton'' (Washington, D.C.: OAFH, 1988), 93. This account indicates that SAC needed five to six days to go pick up atomic weapons and fly to forward bases before launching atomic air strikes. Also in March 1946 only 27 B-29s were atomic capable. Nine bombs were available in 1946, 13 in 1947, and 50 in 1948. [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] teams could prepare only two bombs each day by mid-1948 (p. 95). Rosenberg, 14. ... Vandenberg, sent the highly regarded [[Charles A. Lindbergh]] to inspect six SAC bases. Lindbergh spent more than one thousand hours in the air with SAC crews. His September 1948 report cited low standards of professionalism, poor morale, low proficiency, personnel disruptions, and command training policies that "seriously interfered with training in the primary mission of the atomic squadrons."<sup>5</sup>}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

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