We had a -105 driver with his 100 missions come into out squadron. Doug had one mission where he came home with missile stuck in the tail.. it was a dud. Anyway, Doug came back from a KC-135 sortie with an engine shut down and had failed to notify the Command Post although he had declared an emergency per 60-16. He landed safely and without incident. Doug got chewed out royally for not playing the game and having a command post conference about what to do. .
I heard this complaint over a hundred time while I was in the AF. I often wonder if it was just an urban legend that some guy said this, because everyone I met was personal friends with that guy.
However, for those that care, the reason SAC required the DO/OG (O-6) to be informed of all emergencies and authorize the landing for the emergency aircraft, comes from the Rolling Thunder and Arc light days. They were launching upwards or 72 B-52s from the Anderson AFB in Guam. There were so many aircraft on the field the second runway was actually being used for parking aircraft. Most bombers were so heavily loaded they had very few divert options when returning to Anderson. If an aircraft came home with an emergency and landed without approval there was a real potential they could close the runway and as many as 70 airplanes would be left without an option. Yes it was possible, depending on the emergency, the OG/DO would say "go ditch it I can't risk closing the runway".