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  • AFGSC provides deterrence for the modern era

    The Air Force recently demonstrated its nuclear deterrence and power projection capabilities through a coordinated display of strategic combat power.Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen -- responsible for two legs of the nation's nuclear triad -- conducted the demonstrations, which included

  • New weapons facility to enhance deterrence mission

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the grand opening of a new building on Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Sept. 19. After more than eight years of planning and construction, the building is ready for use."The 2nd Bomb Wing will continue to provide nuclear deterrence and conventional

  • Minuteman III test missile launches from Vandenberg

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile today at 7:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.The ICBM's reentry vehicle, which contained a telemetry package used for operational testing,

  • Meet the 37th HS Global Strike Challenge team

    High in the sky, Airmen competed to see who in the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force is the best at helicopter operations.Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber, ICBM, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike

  • Minuteman III test launch scheduled

    Air Force Global Strike Command is scheduled to conduct a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile operational test launch Sept. 23.The unarmed missile is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, between 3:45 and 9:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and travel approximately

  • Meet the 90th SFG Global Strike Challenge team

    At this year's Global Strike Challenge, defenders from the 90th Security Forces Group are poised to take on their counterparts from across 20th Air Force."Global Strike Challenge is all the bases under [Air Force] Global Strike Command competing in their specific career field," said Senior Airman

  • Meet the 90th OG Global Strike Challenge team

    Nowhere is the mission of Air Force Global Strike Command more apparent than deep underground in launch control centers. This year, the denizens of the LCCs, missileers, will be competing in the 2014 Global Strike Challenge to see which operations group in 20th Air Force is the best."It's our

  • Remains of WWII Airman lost in Pacific brought home to Montana

    Seventy years after his aircraft was shot down during a mission in World War II, Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William D. Bernier finally came home to Augusta, Montana.Bernier was buried with full military honors Sept. 19 at the veteran's section of the Augusta Cemetery, only a few miles from the ranch he

  • POW/MIA: 1,482 Airmen still missing

    Nearly 1,500 Airmen are still missing and unaccounted-for from various conflicts and there are more than 83,000 Americans still unaccounted-for across the Defense Department.Every year the nation pauses on the third Friday of September to remember the sacrifices and service of prisoners of war,

  • Modernization of US nuclear forces not optional

    The dire need for modernization of the United States' nuclear forces was made clear by speakers at a strategic nuclear enterprise symposium held here, Sept. 18.The annual symposium, sponsored by the Minot Chamber of Commerce's Task Force 21, brings together defense officials, government executives