Strategic Air Command
| Strategic Air Command | |
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Shield of Strategic Air Command
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| Active | 1947–92:  US Air Force1946–47: US Army Air Forces |
| Country |
 United States
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| Type | Major Command / Specified Command |
| Garrison/HQ | 9 November 1948: Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska 21 October 1946: Andrews Field, Maryland 21 March 1946: Bolling Field, District of Columbia |
| Motto(s) | "Peace is Our Profession" |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Gen Curtis LeMay |
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM) responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "Nuclear Triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the other being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM)). SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG), with the exception of those KB-50, KC-97, HC-130 and MC-130 aircraft operated by Tactical Air Command (TAC), Military Airlift Command (MAC), and from 1990 onward, the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), or associated AFRES and ANG aerial refueling aircraft gained by TAC, MAC or AFSOC.
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