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  • Adm. Cecil D. Haney visits Minot

    Adm. Cecil D. Haney, U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) commander, recently visited Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Nov. 17, 2014. As part of his ongoing series of visits with nuclear deterrent forces personnel, Haney toured facilities with both 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile wing personnel. The 5th

  • Military Family Month recognizes sacrifice, duty

    The U.S. Census Bureau reported, in their Oct. 3, research, there were more than 115 million households in the U.S.With service members making up less than one percent of the population, the number of military families is barely visible when thrown in the mix of civilian household numbers; however,

  • Faith in training

    A pilot is forced to eject, it is a crash landing or their aircraft has been shot down. They are over the open ocean or in enemy territory. For an air crew member, it is one of the worst-case scenarios.In the middle of the ocean or the wilderness of a combat zone, it is up to the crew to survive on

  • Barksdale Airmen lead community training for Ebola response

    While the risk of an Ebola outbreak here remains low, 2nd Medical Group Airmen led training Nov. 14 with local civilian emergency medical services responders and hospital staff members in order to pre-emptively strengthen coordination efforts and increase awareness of procedures in the event they

  • CMSAF, wife spend time with Mighty Ninety Airmen, families

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody and his wife, retired Chief Master Sgt. Athena Cody, visited the 90th Missile Wing to spend time with Airmen and their spouses. The visit not only focused on the importance of the nuclear deterrence mission, but also on other key topics such as the

  • A Message to the Force on Our Nuclear Enterprise

    To the men and women of the Department of Defense:Earlier this year, following revelations about troubling lapses of integrity in our nation's nuclear forces, I ordered comprehensive internal and external reviews of our entire nuclear enterprise.  Today at the Pentagon, I announced the reviews'

  • Secretary of Defense Hagel Announces Nuclear Force Reforms

    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced today a comprehensive action plan to reform to the nuclear enterprise and called for additional critical investments in sustainment as well as measures to address longstanding cultural issues that have hurt the morale of the nuclear force.In February of