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  • AFGSC launches MAF Wi-Fi

    Air Force Global Strike Command introduced new wireless capabilities to the unclassified area of the missile alert facilities across the intercontinental ballistic missile enterprise."With the understanding that this Wi-Fi project is the Global Strike commander's number one quality-of-life priority,

  • Focused on the future: FIP leads the way

    Over the past few months, many changes have come to the Air Force Global Strike Command community. What started as a grass-roots effort has become a monumental effort by the Air Force and its leadership to foster positive changes within the command.Leadership being the key word; problems that arise

  • Command announces Global Strike Challenge scores

    Air Force Global Strike Command announced the winners of the fourth Global Strike Challenge during a score posting event here Nov. 5.The Total Force team of the 509th Bomb Wing and the 131st Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, won the Fairchild Trophy for the Best Bomb Wing, while the

  • Two new courses improve AFGSC defense capabilities

    On the kind of day when it is cold in the shade and hot in the sun, the jagged, grassy landscape of Guernsey, Wyoming, was quiet and still -- as quiet and still as it can be in windy Wyoming.Breaking the stillness, the engines of humvees and a payload transporter roared as they drove down a dirt

  • Global Strike forces participate in USSTRATCOM command, control exercise

    U.S. Strategic Command, in coordination with other combatant commands, services and appropriate U.S. government agencies concluded Exercise GLOBAL THUNDER 15 today.GLOBAL THUNDER 15 is a command and control exercise designed to train Department of Defense forces and assess joint operational

  • Turbulent fiscal year ends in photo-finish

    Air Force Global Strike Command finance, contracting, and civil engineering teams worked frenziedly to finalize the funding and execution of mission critical requirements before the fiscal year's midnight deadline, Sept. 30."The last contract award was made at 11:49 p.m. by the Second Contracting

  • FIP: LCC deep cleaning to greatly improve quality of life

    Over the last 50 years, Minuteman III launch control centers -- underground hardened command and control bunkers --within 20th Air Force's control have been in continuous use by missile launch crews performing nuclear alert and overseeing maintenance and security in the missile complex.  After

  • Commentary: Thank you, I didn't want to die

    I didn't want to die. I didn't know why, but I hoped there was something more to life than what I had experienced in my 29 years on this earth. The first person to love me without condition and believe what I told him about my past marriage, my junior high teacher, my friend's brother and my