 On October 22 , 1946 , Streett delivered a lecture entitled The Strategic Air Command to the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama . He revealed to the students that the SAC was not yet very powerful — only two strike groups were fully operational and that three months in the future after a rush of preparation , there still would be only four B @-@ 29 Superfortress groups and two long @-@ range fighter aircraft groups . This was in contrast to the then @-@ current public relations statements by the SAC which proclaimed " quick retaliation will be our answer [ to any future aggressor ] in the form of an aerial knockout ... " Streett described how General MacArthur , Commander @-@ in @-@ Chief , U.S. Far East Command , refused to release to SAC the control of one very heavy bombardment group and one very long @-@ range reconnaissance group of the Twentieth Air Force . Streett offered his opinion that the SAC should stage into the Far East and take operational control of those units . 
