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  • Team Whiteman recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness, Prevention Month

    U.S. Air Force Col. Jeffrey Schreiner, 509th Bomb Wing commander, and base leaders officially recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month with a proclamation signing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, March 31, 2021.Each year the Department of Defense Sexual Assault

  • Air Force provides C2 advisors to operational-level commanders

    With global competition heating up, the need to maximize the agility of U.S. Air Force operational command and control has never been more pressing. Fortunately, the USAF’s Operational Command Training Program is a foundational piece of its current C2 training architecture.

  • Operations commanders stand alert together

    In an unprecedented endeavor, all four 90th Operations Group squadron commanders pulled alert at the India-01 Missile Alert Facility, April 2 – 9, 2021 near Sidney, Nebraska.Lieutenant Colonels Robert Mack, Amy Grant, Katherine Mack and Michael Suden, commanders of the 319th, 320th, 321st Missile

  • Switch to Sky: The 91 MW SELM Test

    Anticipation was in the air on April 7, 2021 at launch facility Golf 8 where a crowd gathered around the fence to witness a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Performed every two years, the SELM is an end-to-end test to verify the reliability of

  • Whiteman Medical clinic rolls out MHS GENESIS

    The 509th Medical Group is set to launch the Military Health System Genesis, the Department of Defense’s new and innovative Electronic Health Record system.MHS Genesis will be replacing TRICARE Online which will no longer be serviceable for Whiteman Air Force Base members, and all secure messaging

  • Doolittle Raiders honored in 79th anniversary event

    An event memorializing the 79th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid was held in the Dakota’s Club ballroom at Ellsworth Air Force Base on April 16. In attendance were members of the 34th and 37th Bomb Squadrons and the 89th Attack Squadron, as all of these units participated in the original Doolittle

  • Whiteman AFB motorcyclist killed in motor-vehicle collision

    An Airman assigned to the 509th Communications Squadron was killed on base during a motor-vehicle collision April 15, 2021.Staff Sgt. Cameron Beck was pronounced dead at the scene.The accident took place at Spirit Boulevard and 5th Street on Whiteman Air Force Base, at approximately 10:54 a.m. The

  • 340th WPS students learn to build bombs

    Capts. Samuel Shrewsberry and Michael McBrien, 340th Weapons Squadron weapons instructor course students, inspect training munitions during a training bomb build at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, April 13, 2021. The Airmen from the 340th WPS trained with the 2nd Munitions Squadron to better

  • Wranglers remember Bataan Death March

    More than 200 Airmen and local supporters participated and supported a ruck march April 10, 2021 on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, to honor those who were forced on the Bataan Death March of 1942.The Bataan Death March took place in the Philippines from April 9, 1942 to April 17, 1942, where