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  • 5th Bomb Wing Members Deploy in support of Operation Inherent Resolve

    More than 400 Airmen from the 5th Bomb Wing recently deployed to the Middle East, in support of U.S. Central Command’s Operation Inherent Resolve. The 23rd Bomb Squadron sent a number of B-52H Stratofortresses to take over day-to-day operations, which will be the first time in 12 years aircraft from

  • Minot Chapel named Air Force’s best large chapel

    Team Minot’s chapel celebrated winning the Charles I. Carpenter Award for being the Air Force’s Outstanding Large Chapel Team on March 2, 2017. Minot’s chapel had to beat out another large chapel team within Air Force Global Strike Command before getting to compete at the Air Force level. There,

  • 791st ELAB repairs monitors

    Electronics laboratory Airmen from the 791st Maintenance Squadron are responsible for inspection, repair and calibration of electronic components for launch facilities and launch control centers. Technicians perform certification of critical components, aerospace vehicle equipment and missile

  • Teamwork makes the dream work

    When it comes to safety, there can never be too many helping hands, such is the case when the Minot Air Force Base fire department invited several other local fire departments to receive missile field response training Feb. 24-25, 2017. “We hosted a North Dakota Fire Association training class for

  • 5th MXS maintainers provide aircraft hydraulic support

    The 5th Maintenance Squadron pneudraulics department is responsible for providing reliable and accurate aircraft hydraulic system inspections and maintenance to the B-52H Stratofortress. These maintainers also provide direct and indirect support for the 5th Bomb Wing, 91st Missile Wing and 54th

  • First leg of Lt. Dan Band tour: Barksdale

    Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band performed a concert at Barksdale Air Force Base on March 3, 2017.The Lt. Dan Band, named after Sinise’s character in the movie “Forrest Gump,” travels to military installations to raise morale for service members and their families.

  • CDC educator wins national-level award

    A teacher from the Child Development Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., won the 2017 Terry Lynn Lokoff Award, a national-level award promoting young educators’ projects to improve teaching environments for children.   “Terry Lynn Lokoff was a caregiver years ago,” said Heidi Sowers, the award

  • Forging the future, maintainers receive new equipment

    The B-1 is a four-engine, supersonic bomber that has been providing combat airpower – anytime and anywhere for more than 30 years. This Black Dragon has been at Ellsworth since July 15, 1988, and is currently playing a major role in the war on terror. These aging aircraft are used frequently,

  • 5 AMXS team washes the warbird

    Airmen from the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron wash a B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Feb. 14, 2017. It takes the nine-Airman team two days and approximately 10 gallons of soap to wash each jet when it comes in for its routine wash every 120 days. (U.S. Air Force photos/Senior