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  • Team Whiteman member recognized at White House, meets Trump and Pence

    President Donald Trump recently invited 40 families of fallen service members to Washington, D.C., for a reception and memorial service to remind them – and our country – what they represent.Linda Ambard, a violence prevention integrator assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base,

  • WWII Reaper returns home after 72 years MIA, Whiteman squadron pays tribute

    After more than 70 years missing in action, one of the 13th Bomb Squadron’s Grim Reapers finally returned home to his country and his family in Ashby, Massachusetts. On March 12, 1944, Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Roy Davis was one of two A-20G Havoc bomber crewmembers who didn’t make it back after a

  • Lead into the light: a chaplain journey

    The trainees’ shadows danced as the morning sun rose over the glowing chapel.While angels sang and prayers rose, one of the trainees found his path in the light.

  • Security forces new objective molds lethality, readiness

    In October 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis published guidance for all Department of Defense personnel which included the importance and push to promote readiness within the military and evolving our current forces to become more lethal.Recently activated under the Missile Security Operating

  • 20th EBS Aid in Rescue off Coast of Guam

    The B-52 is world-famous for its long-range capabilities, but during a routine flight near Guam June 25, 2018, crew members with the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (EBS), stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), La., and deployed to Andersen AFB here were tasked with a unique situation: to

  • SecAF visits Ellsworth AFB

    Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson visited Ellsworth Air Force Base, June 25, 2018. During her visit, Wilson met with Airmen from the 28th Bomb Wing while touring the new 28th Security Force’s Little Defender’s Den and state-of-the-art Cold Spray station inside the 28th Maintenance Squadron.

  • Contracting Airman develops program, joins Kessel Run

    In today’s war fighting efforts, innovation is a key component when it boils down to who comes out on top. That is why ground-breaking and out-of-the-box thinking is promoted and needed from all levels of personnel.Airman 1st Class Maxwell Lehmann, 2nd Contracting Squadron specialist, has been a

  • Missile wing holds change of command ceremony

    Members of the 341st Missile Wing welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony June 19. During the ceremony, Col. Ron Allen, Jr. transferred command to Col. Jennifer Reeves. Maj. Gen. Fred Stoss, 20th Air Force commander, presided over the ceremony before a crowd of Airmen, civilian

  • PRESS RELEASE: AFOSI recovers missing machine gun

    Special Agents from Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 813, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, obtained a federal search warrant and recovered an M-240 machine gun reported missing from Minot AFB in an Airman's off-base residence Tuesday, June 19, 2018.The weapon was reported