Sky Masters [antikvár]

A CKNO WLEDGMENTSTo my friend Lieutenant Colonel George Peck (who was instrumental in the research for Day of the Cheetah and who, like Loki's eternal fate in Norse mythology, seems destined to be forever bothered by my insistent questions and requests); TSgt Alan Dockery, Captain Harry G. Edwards, and the other helpful and professional persons in the OfiBce of Public AflFairs, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command (SAC), OfiFutt AFB, Nebraska, for their assistance in gathering information on SAC conventional and maritime operations and the Strategic Warfare Center, and for their help in reviewing the manuscript;To all the men and women of the Strategic Air Command and Pacific Air Forces whom I met during GIANT WARRIOR '90, a multinational, multiservice combat strike and deployment exercise conducted by SAC's Fifteenth Air Force in August of 1990 at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. I wish to especially thank Lieutenant General Robert D. Beckel, Fifteenth Air Force commander, for allowing me the privilege of observing his super exercise; Brigadier General David J. Pederson, Third Air Division commander, and Colonel Alan Girino, Third Air Division deputy commander, and their stafiF for their hospitality and helpfulness in explaining the intricacies of Pacific theater combat operations; and to Colonel Arne Weinman, Ninety-second Bomb Wing commander and joint air forces commander of GIANT WARRIOR '90;Special thanks to Captain Cynthia Colin, Fifteenth Air Force Public AflFairs, and the other professionals at Fifteenth Air Force Public AflFairs, March AFB, California; MSgt Ron Pack, Ninety-second Bomb Wing public aflFairs; MSgt Al Dostal, Ninety-sixth Bomb Wing Public AflFairs; Second Lieutenant Darían "Slick" Benson, Fifty-seventh Air Division Public Af-