On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:49:49 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:39:12 EDT, "neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Doesn't SAC stand for Strategic Air Command? >> Neil T. > It used to. AFAIK there is no longer any military > organization with that designation. Hasn't been for > several decades. This is making me feel very old. "Several" means more than two and I remember well the heyday of SAC in the early Sixties. SAC headquarters was buried under a mountain in Nebraska or Colorado to protect it from nuculear attack. It co-ordinated American B-52's and later the siloed missles out West which were armed with nuclear weapons and ready to launch. I think it's now Moffit Air Base or something like that, the place where they took George Bush on 9-11, before he flew back to Washington. Has it really been "several" decades since "SAC" was dissolved? I'd guess just over a decade and a half. I know the Minuteman missle silos were decommisioned after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
