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  • Team effort in nuclear WSEP

    Minot Air Force Base recently conducted an end-to-end operational nuclear weapons system evaluation, demonstrating the strategic bomber force's ability to configure, load, fly and deliver a nuclear capable air launched cruise missile. The B-52H aircrews flew three simulated combat missions from

  • Minot Buffs test mission capabilities

    B-52H Stratofortress crewmembers participate in a rapid launch exercise on Minot Air Force Base, N.D., March 27, 2015. The exercise tested the aircrew members ability to rapidly respond. The exercise required fluid team work and cooperation between aircrews, crew chiefs and a variety of other base

  • Missile testing unit validates strategic deterrent

    The 576th Flight Test Squadron, which conducts Minuteman III launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, holds the unique distinction as the sole intercontinental ballistic missile test unit in the Department of Defense.The 576th FLTS gathers valuable flight and equipment data from the ICBM

  • 582nd Helicopter Group activated, makes history

    The first helicopter group in the Air Force officially activated during the Assumption of Command Ceremony of the 582nd Helicopter Group March 27, 2015, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.Col. Dave Smith, 582nd HG commander, received the guidon from Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, Task Force 214 and

  • Global strike command tests ICBM, bomber capabilities

    The roar of rocket engines rumbles to life in the early hours of the morning along the California coast. In an instant, a missile longer than a tractor trailer emerges in a blast of smoke and fire, accelerating toward the dark sky, on its journey to a target 700 nautical miles southwest of Guam in

  • Malmstrom AFB prepares for SELM

    Maintaining the nuclear triad requires an enormous amount of manpower, technology, skill and determination. For Air Force Global Strike Command, the mission of sustaining the land-based leg of this nuclear defense hails as one of the most challenging and important undertakings, aside from providing

  • Malmstrom tests second Minuteman III missile this week at Vandenberg

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle today at 3:53 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.The test reentry vehicle impacted in a pre-established test

  • 341 MDG flawless during AAAHC inspection

    The 341st Medical Group opened its doors to a group of surveyors from the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, March 24 to 27.More than 3,000 ambulatory health care organizations across the United States are accredited by AAAHC. Accreditation highlights a facility's long-standing