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  • Bringing home cooking to the missile complex

    Across Malmstrom’s 13,800 square-mile missile complex, hundreds of Airmen head to missile alert facilities and launch facilities every week to ensure the continued success of the wing’s mission.While being away from home for days at a time, missile chefs provide missile field Airmen with a

  • Hard Flex

    Standing in front of the mirror, arms up flexing and camera flashing, a little voice asks, “Dad, why are you taking pictures of yourself?”“I am going to compete; I’m going to do a competition to show my muscles,” said Maj. Richard Bottinelli, to his five year old.The journey to a bodybuilding

  • Defending MAFB’s vast missile complex

    From Albuquerque, New Mexico, Airman 1st Class Sierra Lamas, 841st Missile Security Forces Squadron defender, serves in one of the Air Force’s most unique positions: missile security forces.

  • Fostering children, fostering hope

    The saying “treat others the way you want to be treated” is often told to children at a young age. Some take that advice to heart and work a little to make a difference, others go much further.

  • Happy tears after 20 years

    In December 1975, David M. Wandel and three of his fellow crewmembers – Capt. Martin E. Graham Jr., Capt. Joseph M. Furda and 1st Lt. Karwin M. Plucker – passed away in a plane crash just south of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. There was a memorial dedicated to the Ellsworth based crew in June

  • Airman revisits home country with AF LEAP

    He speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English fluently, possesses an undergraduate degree in political science and international studies with a minor in history, and has a master’s degree in public international affairs with a focus in national security.

  • Life of a medical lab tech

    Joining the military provides people the opportunity to travel the world and see new places. Whether it’s to a new state or a new country, most Airmen will have the opportunity to travel and live somewhere they’ve never been before.For Senior Airman Philip Fisketjon, 341st Medical Group medical

  • “Wing One” Airman prepares for Military World Games

    Finishing second place overall and first among Air Force athletes, with a time of 1:54:59 at the Armed Forces Triathlon Championship, Capt. Joel Bischoff, 341st Security Forces Squadron operations director, earned one of four qualifying slots to represent Team USA at the 2019 Military World Games