 When Arnold needed to solve a thorny problem , he was known to demand " Where is Bill Streett ? " In January 1945 as victory in the war appeared certain , Arnold was faced with postwar reorganization of the Army Air Forces . Arnold ordered Streett to return stateside to form for him the Continental Air Forces ( CAF ) at Bolling Field . Streett served under Arnold as deputy commander of the CAF , but Arnold held at that time two major commands : Air Staff and CAF , with Air Staff taking his full attention . In effect , Streett was left in charge of CAF . In November 1945 , Streett proposed a reorganization of United States air power into separate commands : Eastern and Western air defense commands , a tactical air support command and a training command . His proposal placed strategic bombers in a task force under the commander of the Army Air Forces . When the Continental Air Forces became Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) in March 1946 , he retained his nominal position as deputy commander , and actually commanded the new organization until October when Kenney 's prior obligations to the United Nations came to an end and he could finally take the reins of the SAC as originally intended by General Carl Andrew Spaatz . 
