by august 1962, the units mobilized for the berlin crisis returned to state control. they had hardly resumed normal operations when president kennedy announced on 22 october 1962 that the soviet union had placed nuclear warheads in cuba, only 90 miles from florida. with the cuban missile crisis, air national guard fighter units trained for "no notice" deployments, and volunteer ang airlift crews and their aircraft augmented air force global airlift operations. air national guard bases hosted air force fighters and bombers dispersed there to avoid a possible soviet nuclear response to the crisis. but in the end, no ang unit was federalized.