The Strength of SAC (1966)

Depicts Constant Readiness Of Strategic Air Command's People, Bombers And Missiles To Defend The Country. Portrays Around-the-clock Operations While Air And Ground Crews, Missilemen And Maintenance Personnel Tell How They Carry Out Their Important Missions. Covers Command And Control, Communications, Air Refueling, Reconnaissance, And Nuclear Safety Activities. Stresses Professionalism And Reliability Of SAC's Personnel.
STRENGTH OF SAC, THE by Department of Defense
Publication date 1966
PIN 26474
The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.

[@davidmurphy8190]

Nice imagery of a BUFF taking off, a LGM-25 LCC, a KC-135A refueling a F-105D…and the Offutt AFB command post for SAC.

[@davidmurphy8190]

Note that the BUFF is carrying AGM-28 HOUND DOGs.

[@aSpyIntheHaus]

Buff's carbon footprint is like no other.

[@TalismanPHX]

Audio drops out at the 2:40 mark until 4:00 point

[@AnyaArisohn]

but do you know why...? 😀

[@davidmurphy8190]

The Airborne Command Post was a dedicated EC-135 with a specially-modified inflight refueling system and enhanced communications systems. The LOOKING GLASS planes were backed up by EC-135L aircraft with datalink systems.

[@allgood6760]

A B-52.. a friend you can depend on! 👍✈️

[@HE-pu3nt]

The B-52 is a great plane. But I think the British Avro Vulcan, or the Handley Page Victor were sexier. Both weighed in at about 100tons, they could both go from cold to airborne in 2 minutes, this was call QRA, quick reaction alert, and if you had the balls, both could do a barrel roll, the Vulcan could even do a loop. 🇬🇧🤎🇺🇸B-52.

[@marioragucci1009]

Thank you for this film, I enjoy watching and listening to it very much

[@calvinhobbes7504]

Thanks for posting this. Very much enjoyed watching. My father was in SAC his whole USAF career. Ground crew on B58s, and finally missiles. These guys were amazing heroes to me as a child. SAC is no more, but the professionalism of our airmen - and women - in the USAF today hasn't changed imho. Gen. LeMay and his people knew what the country and the USAF needed, and they knew how to get it.

[@dennisveazey4469]

Back when the SAC was young!

[@ThePennie46]

What is Sac🤔

[@jonathanmarshall3974]

@@ThePennie46 Strategic Air Command

[@ThePennie46]

@@jonathanmarshall3974 thank you. I feel like less knowledge base when compinies are shortened to 3 letter agencies or companies.🤪they are harder to distinguish and not worth my energy🤗

[@psychedelicpython]

My husband was stationed at Fairchild AFB when it was a SAC base. In 1994 a B-52 crashed there. Disaster preparedness was called out close to the flight line. My husband was one of them. Later he told me they were called out to keep a nuclear missile (or maybe two) cooled that was underground close to the flight line and not to put out the fire of plane that crashed. The only reason the B-52 crashed was because of the pilot, not the plane itself.

[@johnshields6852]

I was 6 yrs old that year from Boston, my uncle piloted the F4 phantom in Vietnam in late 60,s, I was in awe as a kid, SAC was awesome, I was a great time to grow up in America back then. God bless the USA🙏

[@johnmorykwas2343]

As a BUFF Nav, this video tells about some the workload on the ground, planning, and the workload, responsibles in the air. Technically, the Nav is running the show with the greatest workload of any other crewdog.

[@KazuhiraMiller46]

My SAC is strong 😎

[@dennisveazey4469]

SAC is always loaded, willing, and able to deploy! 😎

[@kurtb8474]

I was a SAC cop 1983 - 1987. I guarded B-52s and weapon systems.

[@calvinhobbes7504]

When I was in the navy, we had trained USMC soldiers for security, and those guys knew their stuff .... but you USAF guys did that all yourselves!! Much respect!!! :)

[@psychedelicpython]

I lived In Spokane, Washington in the early 70s, which is close to Fairchild AFB. When the B-52s flew over the apartments my family lived in the windows would rattle really hard and keep me awake at night. I’m glad I didn’t know what a SAC base was as a kid because I’d probably worry. At age 26 I married a TSGT who was stationed at Fairchild. That was 35 years ago and we’re still married. I loved being a military wife, and because my husband stayed in until retirement we still access to military bases. Fairchild AFB is no longer a SAC base, and hasn’t been for a while.

[@theodorepatton887]

Need more ! ☺️

[@AdamosDad]

Thank you Airforce. ⚓🐉Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Member 1968-69🐉🇺🇸⚓

[@jimsvideos7201]

As an aside, those Shure mics are gorgeous 🤩

[@myrisk123]

How do they get that close to the lava, without their Hi Vis melting?

[@telleyvestal3351]

Man that In-flight Refueler gig looks like a Kool job👍💪🦅😎

[@peteranastasia1808]

I find the concept of “preparing” for a nuclear war or retaliation otherwise known as ‘mutually assured destruction’ [ M.A.D. ] an extremely eerie concept especially when you factor in that only reason we haven’t annihilated ourselves already is because benevolent extraterrestrials have stepped in to neutralize several missiles. Our nuclear folly isn’t only destructive to our immediate planet but to the entire space-time quantum fabric continuum that also disrupts star systems many millions of light years away from us. We live in a quantum universe that transcends the relativity of more 3D Newtonian physics. 5D quantum reality functions nondualistically based on everything in the universe being interconnected as taught in Buddhism. Hopefully we can outgrow our childish ways before it is too late. Even if benevolent extraterrestrials were forced to intervene for their own preservation, it would still have negative karmic consequences for humanity’s spiritual evolution under the Law of One. 🌀🪬🌀 ✨☀️✨🌘🌞🌒✨☀️✨ 👉🏿♥️👈🏽 One Love

[@davidmurphy8190]

Good response to the klaxon. The B-52H BUFFs move out!

[@triuman]

Have been SACumsized 👍

[@macmedic892]

9:28 “Well perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan R, sir.”

[@zatramander]

16:02 This guy instantly reminded me of Major Kong from Dr. Strangelove. :D

[@davidhudson5452]

92 Heavy Fairchild AFB Wa.

[@goosecouple]

Tyrant: "You need the F-15."

[@calvinhobbes7504]

Actually, he's a dementia patient ... he needs a hospital. :)

[@macmedic892]

Tyrant, or dementia patient? Worse: replace OR with AND

[@danroberts3585]

Audio is gone at about the 3 minute mark.

[@painful-Jay]

Who was this film for? I don’t think they would make it for the general public, but idk.

[@calvinhobbes7504]

Was wondering this myself. Back in those days, SAC had a pretty high bar for qualifying for that duty. Maybe it was for recruiting-from-within (?)

[@rapman5791]

This was made for Congress. When it was time for budget reconciliation these would be shown to the various budgetary committees who could visually see what the money is being spent on. These would be highly classified at the time.

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

I like knowing SAC is strong...you know it wasn't an accident that name. I bet Buck Turdgenson would be proud.

[@macmedic892]

Not nearly as proud as Gen. Jack D. Ripper!

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

@macmedic892 feed me boy! In the name of her majesty and the continental congress feed me! You see Jack, I have a gammy leg....damn heal shot it off by a Japanese Zoro O.

[@HaZe_Da_PiTBuLL]

Those wings just straight sag on that B-52

[@kitwalker520]

Hoping to see Dad in this

[@billotto602]

@ nuclearvault you lose audio from 2:40 to 4:00 - can you fix that ?

[@swainscheps]

“Skybird”…”Dropkick” - funny that “War Games” didn’t Hollywood-ize those call signs…

[@davidmurphy8190]

H-19 helicopter flying a MCC out to the LCF..

[@davidmurphy8190]

Nice test from Vandenberg AFB, now an element of Space Force like Cape Canaveral.

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍

[@manhoot]

I'm ready to "sack" out after watching this film

[@brd400]

Thank God, these maniacs, never completed their mission. And I’m including myself I was in sac as a young man.

[@choossuck7653]

Westover

[@matthewwagner47]

The US strategic nuclear strategy hasn't changed much in 60 years. It still uses the same weapons varieties upgraded. The modern eastern missile defence and sonar net is all there is to defend US. Our defence and attack is antiquated at best. We are 30 years behind Russian aerospace friends. The 1980's-1990's hegemony is over. My opinion only

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Discuss?

[@grayrecluse7496]

Where are the deveristy hires at?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@godoftheinterwebz]

2 minutes no audio. repost this video

[@AnyaArisohn]

Because you can't fly without the I

[@dbeelee8564]

And today, where it's estimated that 70% of all F35's are not flight worthy. Who's kidding whom?

[@marycorrell2557]

S.A.C. was a totally different animal, we had armed B-52's in the air 24 hours a day,7 days a week circling the U.S.S.R. . 85% of strategic bombers armed that were on 10 MIN ground alert. Which means those on ground alert could be in the air in 10 minutes, my grandpa and my dad were 52 pilots. If the balloon goes up, just don't worry,walk toward a major city or near a major military installation ❤😂. Gotta love M.A.D.

[@lewisticknor]

Totally forgot how everything inside was so freakin' loud back then compared to all the computer crap today. It was fans and more fans and gear that only existed to make a lot of noise. Totally forgot. I mean computers still suck though.

[@r.a.w.r.news.t.v.2]

As someone who works around an Air Force base and a navy base I can say this. All of the f****** lettering on the Air Force planes and the naval planes are identical and have been the same since the middle of the 50s😅😅😅😊😊 go back and look at all these older videos and then go back and look at all the new updated version you would think they would figure out a way to change their font on the text on all their names LOL

[@rapman5791]

Why? Change for change sake?? Do you paint your house a different color every 5 years?

[@r.a.w.r.news.t.v.2]

@@rapman5791 Yes Actually I do. I actually had to paint the roof anyway because it's copper and it's illegal to have a complete copper roof on your home in the state I live in. Especially with the antennas on the roof and everything else .. see my uncle has been really sick for a long time so we went ahead and put copper panels on the roof and used ancient tartarian technology and my uncle is completely now cancer-free and has been for almost seven and a half months without going to a doctor or taking a single medicine. The only thing he's been doing is consuming plants and mushrooms off the property and he's been eating pretty much healthy food all along the very first time the other day he went to Arby's and got sick as a dog after eating the food there... the chemicals that are in the food are being activated by the Chemtrails in the sky making people sick thinking they're getting a virus it's not what's going on it's plant-based if you know you know if you don't then you got to get educated real quick Bubba. Look up the event 201 John Hopkins list. Each one of those is a Greek variance an ancient god or goddess which is an ancient evil deity or fallen angel that were supposed to watch over us that's what their named after the accident they're talking about is the ex variant that is actually the ex eclipse coming up where they dumped all these chemicals on this and they're going to flip the switch on 5G and have everybody freaking out. Plus if you look at it 2017 the One path went one way the moon's going the opposite direction now all of a sudden they're showing you that you're being played with. The moon only rotates in One Direction around the earth not two different directions. Don't take my word for it go look at the map. It's going to be a fake solar eclipse and they're going to be doing some crazy f****** s*** .. I don't know you bro but I love you it's time to get educated

[@ThePennie46]

Does anyone care that Real Birds don't leave chit trails🤯✈🤧😷🦨💩🧻

[@rapman5791]

No