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Strategic Air Command Elite Guard
The SAC Elite Guard was a United States Air Police unit established in December, 1956 to provide security at the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) of the United States Air Force, as well as personal protection for the Commander and Vice Commander of SAC.〔Pinckney, Kali, ''Defensor Fortis: A Brief History of Usaf Security and Those Dedicated Few Who Defend the Air Force at the Ground Level'', Universal Publishers Press, ISBN 1-58112-554-2, ISBN 978-1-58112-554-2 (2003), pp. 37-38〕
Established by order of General Curtis E. LeMay, the unit was initially known as Detachment “A” of the 3902nd Air Police Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base.
==Formation==
The Elite Guard was formed under a signed order from General Curtis LeMay, who was instrumental in modernizing USAF security forces in general and the Strategic Air Command in particular. At the creation of the USAF in 1947, aircraft were normally guarded by security detachments formed from airdrome or air base squadrons. In many cases "guard duty" was a detail or extra duty and not a full-time job, often given out as punishment to underperforming personnel. Security and weapons training was minimal or nonexistent. During his initial inspection of the SAC strategic bomber fleet at Offutt Air Force Base in 1948, LeMay reported that at one hangar he found an Air Police sentry on duty "armed only with a ham sandwich".〔Watson, George M., ''Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force'', Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, USAF (2001) p. 132: LeMay raged in a memo that "this afternoon I found a man guarding a hangar with a ham sandwich. There will be no more of that."〕 The exigencies of the Korean War imposed additional delays in retraining and reequipping SAC personnel. Despite these problems, LeMay continued to press for improvements in air base and SAC command security, and proposed the formation of an elite Air Police unit in charge of SAC command security at Offutt Air Force Base. In 1956, after the existing SAC Provost Marshal failed to act with sufficient dispatch in forming the new unit, LeMay replaced him, instituting changes in SAC security force structure that resulted in the creation of the Elite Guard in December 1956.
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