Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gathering of Eagles. The best parts of this film about the Strategic Air Command are scenes where SAC itself provides the action. Rock Hudson takes over a bomber wing and finds himself flying in a domestic circle...
Only Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay, Power's predecessor as commander of SAC, demurred to any degree: "I would think that I would have been against it." Among the things bothering LeMay: lack of an effective U.S. anti-ballistic missile, failure of the U.S. to develop a 50-to-100-megaton bomb. Said LeMay, whose blue uniform set him apart from his three khaki-clad colleagues: "There are net disadvantages from the military standpoint." Still, since the treaty had been initialed, LeMay was now willing to go along...
...SAC Commander Thomas Sarsfield Power, the four-star Air Force general who last week took a foursquare stand against the nuclear test ban treaty, has never shied away from a scrap with his superiors. In 1959 he completed a book advocating, under certain conditions, a preemptive first strike against Russia. The Defense Department hurriedly suppressed the work, ordered Power not to permit its publication. In 1960 Power raised President Eisenhower's hackles by damning the Administration's defense budget as perilously inadequate. Last year Power clashed with the Kennedy Administration over its foot-dragging on the B70 bomber...
Power served under growly, grumpy Curt LeMay in the Pacific and impressed his boss-probably, say some cynics, because Power was so much like LeMay. The day LeMay took over SAC in 1948, Tom Power became his deputy, soon earned a reputation as a hatchet man who executed orders with iron-pants precision. After six years, he moved to Baltimore to head the 40,000-man Air Research and Development Command, returning to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base to take over SAC...
...Rings Away. As SAC commander, Power is never more than six rings away from telephones that can put him in immediate touch with the President, the Joint Chiefs, and a global network of 75 SAC bases. Even his golf cart is rigged with communications gear. As commander of the 200-man, multiservice Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff, he is also charged with assigning targets to every bomber and guided missile in the U.S. arsenal...