Let the games begin!

Team Minot Airmen competed in the fourth annual Winter Games at the McAdoo Fitness Center at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. The Winter Games consisted of several events, including volleyball, soccer, a bench press competition and a three-point shootout contest.

He walks 2 km while carrying 85 pounds

Eighty-Five pounds rest upon his shoulders as a team chief while walking to the site of the explosive ordinance. Wearing a suit, while meant to protect your life, makes little tasks more difficult, but the act becomes routine and easier to manage with practice. While deployed, Tech. Sgt. Brian

Message at Air Warfare Symposium 2018: Innovation critical to lethality and readiness

Senior leaders from across the Air Force, and defense and technology industries gathered in Orlando for the 2018 Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium February 22-23 to discuss the central theme: “Innovation: The Warfighter’s Edge.” Air Force Operational Energy has been an early adapter of

Instructors play key role in nuclear deterrence

Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, instructors with the 372nd and 373rd Training squadrons are on the forefront of producing highly skilled aircraft, missile maintainers that play and important role in the United States' nuclear deterrence policy.

Forced change: Missile maintenance training undergoing historic transformation

Initial qualification training for missile maintainers has undergone a forced transformation to address a delay in training that was discovered as a result of a 2014 review by the Air Force.

Recruits prepare to ship out after swear-in ceremony

Abilene boy becomes Airman for a day

373rd TRS Det. 21 producing high-quality missile maintainers

About a year after a Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, field training detachment began missile maintenance training at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, instructors are seeing more mission-ready Airmen head to the field.

5th OSS: packing parachutes, saving lives

Airmen from the 5th Operations Support Squadron parachute shop pack back-automatic and drag parachutes at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The aircrew flight equipment flight is responsible for maintaining and inspecting all life-saving equipment on the B-52H Stratofortress prior to each mission,

AFGSC hosts human weapons system team conference

Air Force Global Strike Command hosted the 2018 Human Weapons System Team Conference Feb. 12 to 13, at Barksdale Air Force Base.The conference, comprised of attendees from each AFGSC base, addressed programs and questions regarding Airmen, civilians and their families.