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The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base , Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nuclear deterrence , global strike , and operating the Defense Department's Global Information Grid .
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Strategic Command was established on 1 October 2003. [1] MARFORSTRAT is responsible for representing Marine Corps interests to the Commander of Strategic Command, advising the Commander on supporting Marine Forces, and advising other Marine Corps Forces on electronic and space warfare. Its headquarters at Offut Air ...
Offutt Air Force Base / ˈ ɒ f ʌ t / (IATA: OFF, ICAO: KOFF, FAA LID: OFF) is a U.S. Air Force base south of Omaha, adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska.It is the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the 557th Weather Wing, and the 55th Wing (55 WG) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), the latter serving as the host unit.
Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha and adjacent to Bellevue, Nebraska, became the headquarters of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command in 1948, and continues as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command. The museum, then located at Offutt, began with its first airplane in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum.
From 1948 to 1991 MAJCOMs had the authority to form wings using manpower authorizations under their control. Each MAJCOM or other organization reporting directly to USAF was assigned a block of four digit numbers to use for units it organized. The system terminated in 1991 when USAF assumed control of all units except for provisional ones.
Namesake: 1st Lt Jarvis Offutt. Strategic Air Command HQ 1948–1992 1st Air Division (Meterorological Survey) 1955–1956; 5th Air Division 1951 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1966–1991; 55th Wing 1991–1992; 385th Strategic Aerospace Wing 1962–1964; 544th Aerospace Reconnaissance Tech. Wing 1963–1979; 544th Intelligence Wing 1991 ...
The squadron was first activated at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, on April 15, 1996, as the 625th Missile Operations Flight (MOF) [2] and was the product of a number of organizational changes within the ICBM community subsequent to the end of the Cold War. It reported to Air Force Space Command.
Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike (JFCC SGS) was a component of the United States Strategic Command. It was headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base , Nebraska . The Commander, JFCC SGS was dual hatted as the Commander, Eighth Air Force and Commander, JFCC SGS.