[Islaminaction]

I am surprised that Obama is allowing this.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Ping

[Smokin' Joe]

Ayup. Put them in a nice, nukeable location where there is a chance of hurricanes. Makes lots of sense. Our enemies will only have to look at a weather map.

[puppypusher]

Just remaking the wheel.They need to reactivate the Strategic Air Command.SAC specialized in the Nuclear strike roll and did it's job in a professional manner.

SAC should never have been deactivated in the first place.But is was the price of the Peace dividend following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

If our military got this sloppy, imagine what it's like in Pakistan.

[mbynack]

We use to joke about the cycle of events in the military. It's been about 18 years since the AF eliminated the Strategic Air Command. They were responsible for the nucs back in the cold war. Now they're essentially recreating it.

The Air Force eliminated their cyber command a year or two ago and a couple of months ago the Pentagon announced a new cyber command.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

[El Gato]

SAC is Back!

That last is SAC patch, used until 1951.

The new Global Strike command trains, equips and maintains the Air Force Components of Strategic Command, a unified command which occupies (some of) the former SAC facilities at Offutt AFB, near Omaha. But as you can see that the Strategic Command Shield also borrows heavily from the old, post '51, SAC shields.