1960: Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana 1 July 1962: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota 1 July 1963: Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota 1 January 1964: K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan 1 October 1968: Kincheloe Air Force Base, Michigan 1 July 1970: Griffiss Air Force Base, New York 1 July 1972: McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas 1 October 1979: Peterson AFB, Colorado and various BMEWS and SSN radar stations In addition to bases under its operational control, SAC also maintained tenant wings at several bases under the control of other USAF MAJCOMs. These non-SAC bases with SAC tenants included: Amarillo AFB, Texas Eglin AFB, Florida Lowry AFB, Colorado Mather AFB, California Robins AFB, Georgia Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina Sheppard AFB, Texas Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio SAC also often maintained a tenant presence at former SAC bases that the command subsequently transferred and relinquished to other MAJCOMs, to include but not limited to: Altus AFB, Oklahoma Laughlin AFB, Texas MacDill AFB, Florida Homestead AFB, Florida Travis AFB, California Run-up to Korea and start of the Cold War SAC transferred to the United States Air Force on 26 September 1947, concurrent with the latter's establishment as a separate military service. Units directly under SAC HQ included the 8AF and 15AF, as well as the 311th Air Division, 4th Fighter Wing, 82nd Fighter Wing, 307th Bomb Wing, and two reconnaissance units, the 311th Reconnaissance Wing and the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron. The 56th Fighter Wing was subsequently assigned to SAC on 1 October 1947. Following the establishment of the U.S. Air Force, most SAC installations on U.S. territory were renamed as "Air Force Base" during late 1947 and into 1948, while non-U.S. installations were renamed as "Air Base". In May 1948, in an exercise versus Air Defense Command's "Blue" force, a SAC "Red" strike force simulated attacks on Eastern Seaboard targets as far south as Virginia. After a "scathing" 1948 Lindbergh review of SAC operations in the air and at six SAC bases, General Kenney was removed as Commanding General on 15 October 1948 and replaced on 19 October 1948 by 8AF's commander, Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay. Upon LeMay's assumption of command, SAC had only 60 nuclear-capable aircraft, none of which possessed a realistic long range capability against the Soviet Union. The B-29D, which had become the B-50 in December 1945, was first delivered to SAC in June 1948. This