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Line 8: The original plan envisioned a aircraft, crew, and command and control team on 15-minute ground alert; this was later changed to a continuous airborne alert posture. The functions of this PACCS Airborne Command Post kept expanding until it became a true alternate command and control system, complete with force status monitoring, initiation or relay of launch/execution directives, a battle staff, communications to support and alternate CINCSAC, and limited capabilities to reconstitute and replan residual resources. PACCS, in later variants, included an [[Airborne Launch Control System]] (ALCS) capability, which provided an alternate means of execution messages to get to [[missile combat crew]]s and a back-up [[Launch control center (ICBM)\|launch control center]], forcing the [[Soviet Union]] to target each missile silo, rather than just the [[Launch control center (ICBM)\|launch control centers]] to incapacitate the [[LGM-30 Minuteman\|Minuteman]] force. <ref>Strategic Air Command: "Weapon Systems Acquisition 1964-1979", 28 Apr 1980</ref> ==Components==

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