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  • BOSSIER CITY, La. -- Senior Airman Shelia Titus, 2d Security Forces Squadron, walks a puppy into a local pet store April 10 while volunteering for the Bossier City Animal Control's Hand-in-Paw adoption day. Volunteers like Airman Titus help feed and clean the animals, transport them, walk the animals as needed and help customers complete the adoption process. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joanna M. Kresge)

    Barksdale Airmen find homes for furry friends

    Barksdale Airmen are donating their time in support of the Bossier City Animal Control's Hand-in-Paw adoption days at a local pet store.HIP is a nonprofit organization that finds homes for animals that are currently sheltered at the animal control office, and for the past five years Airmen have helped make it happen."These animals we are trying to
  • More than 20 key leadership members of the nuclear enterprise gathered at Malmstrom Air Force Base to attend a steering group meeting chaired by Ms. Ann Mitchell, Air Force Global Strike Command's A4/7, pictured at the head of the table here. Also shown with Ms. Mitchell are, clockwise, Brig. Gen. Everett Thomas, Commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center; Ms. Lorna Estep, Executive Director, Air Force Global Logistics Support Center; Mr. Ross Marshall, Deputy Director of Logistics, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command; Mr. Mark Johnson, Executive Director, Ogden Air Logistics Center; and Brig. Gen. Jeffry Smith, AFGSC A5/8. (U.S. Air Force photo/Beau Wade)

    Malmstrom hosts inaugural ICBM Sustainment General Officer Steering Group

    Air Force Global Strike Command's Director of Logistics, Installations and Mission Support held a historic meeting here April 8, bringing together top Air Force leaders with a stake in nuclear sustainment issues, including commanders from Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and Minot Air Force Bases, as well as other center commanders and major command Senior
  • MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Load crew members attach the fins to conventional bombs April 13 in a load crew competition here. The 5th Bomb Wing joined six other bomb wings in Air Force Global Strike Command’s first-ever load competition April 13 and 14 here. The evaluation was based not only on the Warbird’s hands-on skills, but also their knowledge in their respective career fields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy Moless)

    Global Strike Challenge load comp kicks off at Minot

    The 5th Bomb Wing joined six other bomb wings in Air Force Global Strike Command's first-ever load competition April 13 and 14 here.The evaluation was based not only on the Warbird's hands-on skills, but also their knowledge in their respective career fields."This brings us back to the old SAC [Strategic Air Command] days and the Giant Sword
  • MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Senior Airman Krystal Hooper, 5th Bomb Wing paralegal, was recently selected as the 8th Air Force Outstanding Paralegal Airman of the Year. The award is based on demonstrated superior initiative, technical skill, leadership ability and devotion to duty and is among the highest distinctions an Air Force paralegal can receive and recognizes Airmen in the grade of technical sergeant and below. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Aaron-Forrest Wainright)

    Minot paralegal selected for 8th AF honor

    Senior Airman Krystal Hooper, a paralegal with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, was recently selected as the 8th Air Force Outstanding Paralegal Airman of the Year.The OPAY award is based on demonstrated superior initiative, technical skill, leadership ability and devotion to duty. It is among the highest distinctions an Air Force
  • BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- Airmen 1st Class Bronson Bohannon (right) and Avondries Green, 2d Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintainers, install rivets on new sheet metal wing flaps April 5. The Airmen are assisting, along with other Barksdale Airmen, volunteers and contractors, with the restoration of a B-17 aircraft in honor of Maj. Gen. Lewis E. Lyle who was a World War II combat pilot. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. John Gordinier)

    Honoring the past: Barksdale Airmen restore B-17G for Eighth AF museum

    Airmen, volunteers and contractors at Barksdale Air Force Base are busy preserving, restoring and painting a B-17G Flying Fortress for the Eighth Air Force Museum in honor of Maj. Gen. Lewis E. Lyle, a World War II B-17 pilot."General Lyle was an aviator's aviator," said Gary Miller, 8 AF museum director. "He was the most decorated in 8 AF and he
  • The 1962 transporter erector that has been on display at the Malmstrom Museum since 1991 is now parked at the 341st Logistics Readiness Squadron allied trades shop where the staff will disassemble, sand and repaint it when they have extra time. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Dillon White)

    Second successful restoration project returns to Malmstrom Museum

    In the early part of June 2009, a team of vehicle maintainers from the 341st Logistics Readiness Squadron pooled their talents and embarked on a journey to restore the 1962 transporter erector that calls the Malmstrom Museum its home. All but two of that original team were unable to see the project through to completion due to permanent change of
  • MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- In times of war, stress is inevitable. With the high operations tempo here, added stress is a mainstay. However, the integrated delivery system provides Minot Airmen unique ways of dealing with stress according to their own situations. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

    Stress - A manageable foe

    In times of war, stress is inevitable. With the high operations tempo around the Air Force, added stress is a mainstay. However, the integrated delivery system provides Minot Airmen unique ways of dealing with stress according to their own situations.s"IDS is a compilation of all the base's helping agencies," said Lt. Col. London Richard, 5th
  • BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- Maj. Gen. Floyd Carpenter, 8th Air Force commander, and local and state politicians cut the ribbon at the Cyber Innovation Center, the site of the Numbered Air Force’s new headquarters March 29. The newly constructed facility will be the home of the 8th AF for the next two years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Chad Warren) (RELEASED)

    Ribbon cutting marks 8th Air Force move to Bossier City

    Eighth Air Force conducted a ribbon cutting ceremony with local and state officials March 29 to mark the temporary relocation of 8th Air Force Headquarters to the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City, La..The move is the result of a need to relocate and renovate facilities at Barksdale with the arrival of Air Force Global Strike Command. The new
  • Senior Airman Ryan Pfeifer, a response force leader assigned to the 791st Missile Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., was recognized as the Airman of the Year.

    AFGSC 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year nominees announced

    Four Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen were awarded the Command's Airmen of the Year awards recently at a ceremony here.The banquet, held in conjunction with the AFGSC Commander's Conference, was attended by all of the Command's top leaders and presided over by AFGSC Commander Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz."Every one of you are winners, and shining
  • Gen. Norton Schwartz addresses more than 1,500 Airmen on teamwork and excellence April 1, 2010, at Minot Air Force Base N.D. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    CSAF visits Minot, says excellence expected from AFGSC bases

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz addressed more than 1,500 Airmen gathered at Minot Air Force Base April 1 to discuss teamwork and excellence, key elements in mission accomplishment as well as in maintaining standards in the nuclear business.He greeted the combined formation of both 5th Bomb Wing Warbirds and 91st Missile Wing Rough
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