TAC, then ACC until BRAC closure in 1993) Columbus AFB (transferred to ATC, now AETC) Clinton-Sherman AFB (closed) Dow AFB (closed; portion transferred to ANG as Bangor ANGB) Hunter AFB (transferred to US Army as Hunter AAF) Larson AFB (closed) Lincoln AFB (closed; portion transferred to ANG as Lincoln ANGB) Little Rock AFB (transferred to TAC, later MAC, now AMC) Turner AFB (transferred to USN as NAS Albany in 1968, closed 1975) With the Vietnam War draw-down following the Paris Peace Treaty in 1973, reduced defense budgets forced SAC to inactivate several more wings, close still more bases in CONUS and Puerto Rico, transfer still additional bases to other MAJCOMS or the Air Reserve Component, and retire older B-52B, B-52C, B-52E and B-52F aircraft: Davis-Monthan AFB (transferred to TAC, now ACC) Forbes AFB (closed; portion transferred to ANG as Forbes ANGB) Glasgow AFB (closed) Kincheloe AFB (closed) McCoy AFB (closed; portion transferred to USN as Naval Training Center Orlando McCoy Annex until its BRAC-directed closure in 1999) Ramey AFB (closed; portion transferred to USCG as CGAS Borinquen) Rickenbacker AFB (closed; portion transferred to ANG as Rickenbacker ANGB) Westover AFB (transferred to AFRES, now AFRC, as Westover ARB) Wright-Patterson AFB (tenant SAC presence departed and transferred to Beale AFB; base remained with AFLC, now AFMC) In 1973, the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, or NEACP, aircraft entered SAC's inventory. Consisting of four Boeing E-4 aircraft, these highly modified Boeing 747 airframes were assigned to the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Offutt AFB and were forward deployed as necessary to support the National Command Authority. By 1975, SAC's manned bomber strength included several hundred B-52D, B-52G, B-52H and FB-111A aircraft, and "...SAC's first major exercise in 23 years" was Exercise Global Shield 79. As for the ICBM force, SAC reached a peak strength of 1000 Minuteman II and III and 54 Titan II ICBMs on active status before seeing reductions and retirements through a combination of obsolescing systems and various arms reduction treaties with the Soviet Union. By 1977, SAC had been pinning its hopes for a new manned strategic bomber in the form of the Rockwell B-1A Lancer. However, on 30 June 1977, President Jimmy Carter Carter announced that the B-1A would be canceled in favor of ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and a fleet of modernized B-52s armed with air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs). On 1 December 1979, SAC assumed control