On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:00:46 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > 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. For history on the Strategic Air Command go here: http://www.strategic-air-command.com/history/history-00.htm BTW, there was a very good movie produced ca. 1958 starring Jimmy Stewart and titled "Strategic Air Command". I remember the movie quite well. I could highly recommend it especially for people who don't know what it was like living back in the days of the cold war. The film very accurately reflects the mentality of the times because the movie was produced in those days and it was about the cold war. Hollywood did quite well in choosing Jimmy Stewart to play the lead role. No other actor could have played the part as well as he. Many people do not know that Jimmy Stewart throughout his acting career was in real life an officer in the active USAF Reserve. Jimmy Stewart eventually attained the rank of Brigadier General. All the best, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
