OCR Text |
Show Local man in SAC attack test Air Force Airman 1st Class Robert L. Skelton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Skelton of Lapoint. has participated in Global Shield 81, the Strategic Air Command's (SAC) response to a simulated attack on the United States. The service member is among the more than 100,000 U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Canadian personnel taking tak-ing part in SAC's largest, no-notice, 20-day training exercise. During one portion of Global Shield, more than 500 B-52 and FB-lll bombers and KC-135 tankers took off from 70 different locations in the United Slates and Guam within minutes of notification. notifica-tion. This exercise is not related in any way to real world situations, according accor-ding to a SAC spokesman. Global Shield 81 is designed (o test the command's com-mand's capability to carry out emergency war orders to support U.S. policy if deterrence fails. This exercise has been constructed to measure SAC's response to n set of preplanned events leading up to simulated attack on the United States, the spokesman ex plained. |