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Headquartered first at andrews air force base in maryland and then, after november 1948, at offutt air force base in omaha, nebraska, sac was the component of the unified command. The sac shield patch the strategic air command was created on march 21, 1946 through a redesignation of the continental air command. Sac strategic air command challenge coin usaf force mwb. Strategic air command sac was both a united states department of defense dod.
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