SAC Elite Guard Association

SAC Elite Guard and Drill Team

SR1_001_ SAC Bomber Aircraft

An inflight overview of the B-2 Bomber on its fifth test flight. The flight lasted one hour and seventeen minutes. Northrop Chief Test Pilot Bruce Hinds and Air Force Lt. Col. John Small of the B-2 Combined Test Force were at the controls. The first five test flights were designed to expand the flight envelope, demonstrate the handling qualities of the aircraft while flying in the air refueling position and validate the proper function of the aircraft’s subsystems.

An air-to-air underside view of a B-1B bomber performing an evasive maneuver during an acceptance flight being conducted by Detachment 15 of the Air Force Contract Management Division.

A 509th Bombardment Wing FB-111A aircraft drops Mark 82 high drag practice bombs along a coastline during a training exercise.

B-36 Peacemaker (U.S. Air Force photo)

SR1_002_ SAC Reconniance, Electronic Warfare, and Refueling Aircraft

An air-to-air overhead front view of an SR-71A strategic reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-71 is unofficially known as the “Blackbird.”

An air-to-air overhead view of a 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron EC-135 Stratolifted aircraft over Mount Rushmore.

An air-to-air right side view of an E-4B advanced airborne national command post aircraft being refueled from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.

SR1_003_SAC Fighter Escorts. Aircraft shown are representative of those assigned to SAC in its early years.

SR1_004_ SAC Air Launched Weaponry

An air-to-air front view of a B-52G Stratofortress aircraft from the 416th Bombardment Wing armed with AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCMs).

Airmen from the 42nd Munitions Maintenance Squadron prepare to load a Mark 60 CAPTOR (encapsulated torpedo) anti-submarine mine onto a 42nd Bombardment Wing B-52G Stratofortress aircraft during Ghost Warrior, a joint Air Force/Navy exercise conducted during the base’s conventional operational readiness inspection.

SR1_005_ SAC Ground Launched Missiles

SR1_006_ Nuclear Gravity Bombs