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| rdfs:label | - 1st Combat Evaluation Group
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| rdfs:comment | - The 1st Combat Evaluation Group (initially "1CEG", later "1CEVG") was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) unit formed 1 August 1961 to merge the 3908th Strategic Standardization Group for SAC aircrew evaluation with the 1st Radar Bomb Scoring Group that had originated from the 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit which transferred from 15th AF to directly under Strategic Air Command . The 1CEVG formed after SAC switched to low-level tactics to counter Soviet surface-to-air missiles ("Oil Burner" training routes in 1959) and SAC had "developed a Radar Bomb Scoring field kit for use in NIKE Systems" in early 1960 for scoring SAC training missions against US Hercules SAM sites. The 1CEVG headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base included an Office of History and a "standardization and evaluation school" f
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| Role | - standardization & evaluation
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| Current Commander | - --05-16
- --05-20
- Col
Alvin E. Prothero 1 Jul 1971 - 25 Apr 1975
- Col
Edward F. Gehrke 25 Apr 1975 - 27 Oct 1978
- Col Billy F. Price 28 Jul
1983 - 15 Jan 1988
- Col John C. Dalton 16 Jan 1988 -
23 Jan 1989
- Col John R. Rader 16
Sept 1981 - 28 Jul 1983
- Col Joseph M. Hudson, Jr. 23 Jan 1989
- ?
- Col Larry S.
DeVall 1 Dec 1979 - 16 Sept 1981
- Col Robert
F. Ramsey 27 Oct 1978 - 1 Dec 1979
- Col Willie H. Sontag 1 Feb 1970 - 1 Jul 1971
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| abstract | - The 1st Combat Evaluation Group (initially "1CEG", later "1CEVG") was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) unit formed 1 August 1961 to merge the 3908th Strategic Standardization Group for SAC aircrew evaluation with the 1st Radar Bomb Scoring Group that had originated from the 263rd Army Air Force Base Unit which transferred from 15th AF to directly under Strategic Air Command . The 1CEVG formed after SAC switched to low-level tactics to counter Soviet surface-to-air missiles ("Oil Burner" training routes in 1959) and SAC had "developed a Radar Bomb Scoring field kit for use in NIKE Systems" in early 1960 for scoring SAC training missions against US Hercules SAM sites. The 1CEVG headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base included an Office of History and a "standardization and evaluation school" for command examiners.
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