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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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**[[2d Airborne Command and Control Squadron]] - [[Offutt AFB]], [[Nebraska]]

**[[4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron]] - [[Ellsworth AFB]], [[South Dakota]]

**[[22d Air Refueling Squadron]] - [[March ARB|March AFB]], [[California]]; West Auxiliary Command Post (West AUXCP) <REFref>[http://2accs.com/history.html 2d Airborne Command and Control Squadron history]</REFref>

**[[99th Air Refueling Squadron]] - [[Westover AFB]], [[Massachusetts]]; East Auxiliary Command Post (East AUXCP) <REFref>Strategic Air Command Regulation 100-24 Vol III: SAC Communications System Operations/EWO Support Requirements, 6 Jul 1979</REFref>

**[[913th Air Refueling Squadron]] - [[Barksdale AFB]], [[Louisiana]]; Central Auxiliary Command Post (Central AUX)

*[[B-47 Stratojet#B-47|EB-47L]]

**4362d Post Attack Command and Control Squadron - [[Lincoln AFB]], [[Nebraska]]<ref>Lloyd, Alwyn. A Cold War Legacy: A Tribute to Strategic Air Command 1946-1992. ISBN 1-57510-052-5</ref>

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==See also==

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*[[Survivable Low Frequency Communications System]] ([[Survivable Low Frequency Communications System|SLFCS]])

*[[Ground Wave Emergency Network]] ([[Ground Wave Emergency Network|GWEN]])

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