Scott Air Force Base Illinois Communication Command 1991 3rd Illustrated History

Description

Air Force Communications Command
An illustrated history
Celebrating 30 years as an Air Force major command
Third edition
1991 315 page illustrated hardcover
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Although 1991 marks the Air Force Communications Commands 30
th
anniversary as a major command, its roots go back to the 1930s.
Formally organized in 1938 AFCC gradually evolved from an original complement of about 300 men, providing air traffic control in the continental United States only, to a worldwide command as several 1000 men and women with a multitude of missions.
During this evolution, with command also acquired the equipment and technology to make communications not only faster but also more accurate.
Communications today is of the type that only science fiction writers dreamed of 50 years ago.
AFCC, however, is about more than equipment; it is about people.
People have always been at the heart of the Air Force Communications, whenever name the organization happen to carry.
That was the way it was in 1938: that is the latest to date.
A book of this nature can do little more than skim the surface of the commands past.
It cannot possibly portray all of the countless persons stories and ingenuity, hard work, and sacrificed by the men and women created this command and its legacy of service.
It is my hope, however, that this volume will provide the flavor of those times, and stand as a tribute to those thousands of individuals whose tireless efforts and personal sacrifices over many years and in a thousand different places made this command want to be proud of…
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