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Offutt Air Force Base
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Offutt Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 1,907 acres (772 hectares), E Neb., S of Omaha; est. 1896 as Fort Crook, an army base. Converted to an airbase in the early 1900s and renamed in 1924, it is the headquarters of the Strategic Command, the successor to the Strategic Air Command Strategic Air Command (SAC), former command of the U.S. air force (see Air Force, United States Department of the ) charged with organizing, training, equipping, administering, and preparing strategic air forces for combat; it was headquartered at Offutt Air Force
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. The Nebraska Museum of Aerospace History is on the base.


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