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The 4th ACCS operated the WESTAUXCP and the ALCCs. The WESTAUXCP - typically an EC-135C, but occasionally an EC-135G with attendant mission degrade - provided a secure radio link between the 'Looking Glass' and the two or three airborne ALCCs, which orbited above the Minuteman 'missile fields' in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Montana. One ALCC sat alert alongside the WESTAUXCP at Ellsworth, and two ALCCs sat alert at Minot AFB.

The PACCS reorganized again in 1974, seeing the standup of the 6th ACCS, 4500th ABW at Langley AFB with the EC-135Ps formed Command-in-Chief, Atlantic = 'Scope Light' airborne command post. 'Blue Eagle', Command-in-Chief, Pacific, was named the 9th ACCS. The 3rd ACCS was inactivated on 31st December 1975. Its radio relay functions were assumed by the 70th AREFS, 305th AREFW at Grissom AFB, and its EASTAUXCP duties by the 2nd ACCS at Offutt AFB.

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