Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy to see him. At 3 a.m. from-his hotel room, Koffend fired off a telegram petitioning General Power...
...plane command-including 14,000 jets, 12,500 of them strike planes-to the point that his 900,000-man force lives all day, every day, by the doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles") and 300 6-36 propjet bombers squat on their ramps on 24-hour alert, with tanks topped with fuel and nuclear weapons preloaded. SAC's new commander, General Thomas...
...Planes. The new 15-minute alert, in force at all SAC bases, is based on Air Force estimates that 15 minutes is all the warning the U.S.-or bases overseas-would be likely to get before a missile strike. It requires a proficiency and efficiency that airmen would have thought fantastic only two years ago. Yet next year, through an ingenious system of shifting and resting planes and crews, SAC intends to have two-thirds of its planes on a constant 15-minute alert. Meanwhile, the vanguard of General O. P. ("Opie") Weyland's Tactical Air Command lighter...
...promotion, was Stewart advanced to one-star rank? Colonel Stewart, though he flies his own Cessna 310, had put in only 39 days of reserve training since World War II; yet he had been assigned to a key M-day billet as deputy director of operations at SAC headquarters. Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, Air Force personnel boss, disagreed with the Senator. "Stewart has made a great contribution to the Air Force," he said. "We don't think we should promote people to general officer [merely] on the basis of a good attendance record." But Senator Smith...
...transport, is streamlining itself so that it can quickly be flown to brush-fire war areas. The Navy's readiness to use Marine amphibious forces is part of the Navy's traditional role in "limited situations." And the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and some SAC units could be diverted to limited wars without limiting SAC's overall retaliatory mission...