Global Strike Challenge score-posters combine past, present to make event shine

As the time quickly approaches for Air Force Global Strike Command's fourth Global Strike Challenge to wrap-up, the teams have finished competing and scores are being tallied to determine who will be named the "best of the best" in the bomber, missile, helicopter and security forces

Two new courses improve AFGSC defense capabilities

On the kind of day when it is cold in the shade and hot in the sun, the jagged, grassy landscape of Guernsey, Wyoming, was quiet and still -- as quiet and still as it can be in windy Wyoming.Breaking the stillness, the engines of humvees and a payload transporter roared as they drove down a dirt

Global Strike forces participate in USSTRATCOM command, control exercise

U.S. Strategic Command, in coordination with other combatant commands, services and appropriate U.S. government agencies concluded Exercise GLOBAL THUNDER 15 today.GLOBAL THUNDER 15 is a command and control exercise designed to train Department of Defense forces and assess joint operational

Warren defenders employ military training as vehicle accident first responders

It was an ordinary, windy October day for five security forces defenders from F.E. Warren AFB, who were geared up and headed to the missile field to exercise their capabilities. Despite the dry air and gusts of wind that day, rain that had fallen the night before softened the shoulder of County Road

Turbulent fiscal year ends in photo-finish

Air Force Global Strike Command finance, contracting, and civil engineering teams worked frenziedly to finalize the funding and execution of mission critical requirements before the fiscal year's midnight deadline, Sept. 30."The last contract award was made at 11:49 p.m. by the Second Contracting

FIP: LCC deep cleaning to greatly improve quality of life

Over the last 50 years, Minuteman III launch control centers -- underground hardened command and control bunkers --within 20th Air Force's control have been in continuous use by missile launch crews performing nuclear alert and overseeing maintenance and security in the missile complex.  After

Commentary: Thank you, I didn't want to die

I didn't want to die. I didn't know why, but I hoped there was something more to life than what I had experienced in my 29 years on this earth. The first person to love me without condition and believe what I told him about my past marriage, my junior high teacher, my friend's brother and my

USAF helicopter conference attendees discuss future

Air Force Global Strike Command's Helicopter Operations Division hosted the World-Wide Helicopter Conference here Oct. 7-9 to discuss the current and future state of the Air Force's helicopter fleets.The conference promoted cross talk among the Air Force's helicopter forces, which are principally

Electrifying energy efforts at Minot AFB

Would you be surprised to learn that October is Energy Action Month? Most people would be and just as many would be surprised to find out reducing energy usage is one of the key goals for the Air Force. In fact, the goal to reduce energy consumption for fiscal year 2013 was set at 24 percent for the

B-2 Spirit soars over Royals vs. Orioles game