To improve fighter-on-fighter capability draft mobilization orders were issued for the 122d, 151st, 157th and 159th Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons, but were never finalized and the Air National Guard did not take part in the crisis. The alert status of the division's fighters included airborne alert against dawn raids early in crisis. The "Strategic Orbit Points" for airborne fighters were manned by 10 planes (later reduced to 4 planes). Alert planes were also placed in "sling shot" status (engines running). This was later reduced to alert crews in the planes' cockpit near the runway.