Lineage
- Established as Air Defense Command on 21 March 1946
- Activated as a major command on 27 March 1946
- Became a subordinate operational command of Continental Air Command on 1 December 1948
- Discontinued on 1 July 1950
- Reestablished as a major command, and organized, on 1 January 1951
- Redesignated Aerospace Defense Command on 15 January 1968
- Inactivated on 31 March 1980.
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“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)