Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a unique command, to say the least, and to understand the atmosphere under which we trained and worked, one must understand a little of the command.

SAC was the was the child and charge of General Curtis E. LeMay.
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He was a truly historic figure whom I had a chance to meet many years later in his retirement years not long before his death in 1990, and of all places, in the waiting area of a base hospital pharmacy. Unfortunately, a young airman at the pickup window microphone had no sense of history and that shortcoming was augmented by the fact that she worked in the hospital, which is somewhat its own world.