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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/aviation_news_and_search.html " CAMERAS FOLLOW 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). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 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...