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PACCS underwent another major reorganization on 25th March 1965. The EB-47L units at Lockbourne AFB and Mountain Home AFB were inactivated (EB-47L units at Lincoln AFB and Plattsburgh AFB had already been inactivated) and their radio-relay missions absorbed by EC-135As assigned to the 32nd AREFS, 301st AREFW at Lockbourne AFB and the 28th AREFS, 28th BW at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, respectively. PACCS was now exclusively EC-135A and EC-135C equipped. So the Looking Glass, AUXCPs, and the radio-relay aircraft made up the PACCS.
Looking Glass = SAC ABNCP
Auxiliary Command Post = AUXCP
RR = Radio-Relay

Also in 1965, theater commanders who controlled nuclear weapons acquired airborne command posts to improve the post-strike controllability of their nuclear forces. Unlike the 'Looking Glass', the theater airborne command posts were on ground alert and their battle staffs were commanded by a colonel or navy captain, with sufficient warning, a flag officer was added to the battle staff.
Commander-in-Chief, Europe = 'Silk Purse'
Commander-in-Chief, Pacific = 'Blue Eagle'
Command-in-Chief, Atlantic = 'Scope Light'

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