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<text id=91TT2147>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: American Notes:The Military
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 35
American Notes
THE MILITARY
SAC Gets The Sack
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<p> To Americans who remember crouching under their desk during
grade-school air-raid drills, the Strategic Air Command--which kept nuke-carrying bombers airborne round the clock--was
a special icon of the cold-war mythology. But last week Air
Force Secretary Donald Rice announced that SAC will be
eliminated under a sweeping reorganization of the service. Its
nuclear missiles and bombers will join the Tactical Air
Command's conventional aircraft to form a single Air Combat
Command. "Desert Storm demonstrated that the line between
strategic and tactical air power has become blurred," says a
report released by Rice's office. "The organization needs to
catch up."
</p>
<p> There are other reasons for the change. One is money; by
1997, the Air Force will have about one-third less fighter
wings, missiles and bombers than it has now. Rice is also
cutting 700 Pentagon jobs. Finally, with the decline of the
Soviet threat, new weapons like the B-2 Stealth bomber will have
to be sold--if they are--with the argument that they give
the U.S. an edge in conventional as well as strategic warfare.
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