OLD STRATCOM HQ WILL GET A LONG-OVERDUE UPGRADE AS 55TH WING MOVES IN

OMAHA - Offutt Air Force Base’s “Island” is about to get a makeover.

The Island is what insiders call the hilltop headquarters building planned by (and until last year, named for) Gen. Curtis LeMay, who led and shaped the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command from Offutt in its early years.

Late last year the U.S. Strategic Command, SAC’s post-Cold War successor as the holder of the keys to the nuclear arsenal, decamped with its 3,300 employees down the hill to a new $1.3 billion command-and-control building.

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