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  • Global Strike Challenge 2023

    Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard.Goals - Showcase the world’s

  • 576th Flight Test Squadron

    U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet576th Flight Test SquadronMissionLocated at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the 576th Flight Test Squadron is America's only dedicated ICBM test squadron professionally executing tests that accurately measure the current and future capability of the ICBM force.Mission

  • 625th Strategic Operations Squadron

    U.S. Air Force Fact SheetMissionExecute and support global strike through continuous, rapid, accurate and survivable ICBM operations.VisionA team of nuclear professionals delivering unique ICBM combat capabilities for global strike.MottoSI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM - "If you wish for peace, prepare for

  • 595th Command and Control Group

    Mission Ensure U.S. strategic deterrence by providing aircrew, operators and maintenance personnel for nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) platforms enabling the National Command Authority survivable, real-time strategic assessment and global strike capabilities.VisionTo be the premier

  • Air Force Global Strike Command - Air Forces Strategic - Air

     Air Force Global Strike Command Fact Sheet Air Force Global Strike Command, activated Aug. 7, 2009, is a major command with headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, in the Shreveport-Bossier City community. AFGSC is comprised of more than 33,700 Airmen and civilians responsible for the

  • Global Strike Challenge Trophies

    Missile Unit Category:Legacy TrophiesBlanchard TrophyAwarded since 1967, this rotational legacy trophy will be awarded to the best missile wing. The Blanchard Trophy is named in honor of General William H. Blanchard who served as Strategic Air Command’s Director of Operations in the early 1960s

  • Global Strike Challenge Heritage

    Global Strike Challenge recaptures a critical part of the Air Force’s nuclear heritage – competition. Since 2010, Global Strike Challenge pits the top security forces, bomber and missile maintenance, and bomber, missile and helicopter operations crews from Air Force Global Strike Command, as well as

  • Global Strike Challenge

    Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard.

  • LGM-30G Minuteman III

    MissionThe LGM-30G Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is an element of the nation's strategic deterrent forces under the control of the Air Force Global Strike Command. The "L" in LGM is the Department of Defense designation for silo-launched; "G" means surface attack; "M" stands

  • B-1B Lancer

    Mission Carrying the largest conventional payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory, the multi-mission B-1 is the backbone of America's long-range bomber force. It can rapidly deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary,