Series honors 60 years of AFMS history Published March 31, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The Air Force Medical Service will celebrate its 60th anniversary on July 1, 2009. In editions of the SG Newswire leading up to the anniversary, we will publish an article of historical interest from the "USAF Medical Service Digest," 1950-1996. This first article is a July 1959 article on the first ten years of Air Force medicine in the Strategic Air Command (SAC). In June 1992, Strategic Air Command, the Air Force's bomber and missile strike force durnig the Cold War, merged with Tactical Air Command (TAC) to form the new Air Combat Command.