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  • Malmstrom driving instructor prepares Airmen for 6,000-mile 'flightline'

    Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen who post to the Malmstrom missile complex travel approximately 25,000 miles a day. In sum, the odometer readings from Malmstrom's government vehicles reached approximately 6.9 million miles last year.To prepare Airmen for their long drives across Malmstrom's

  • Malmstrom bioenvironmental engineer's skills benefit local community

    Unique job descriptions are status quo for the military. Approximately 1 percent of the United States population serves in the military, and a fraction of that serves in the Air Force. It's no wonder being a bioenvironmental engineer here would be extraordinarily unique.For one Air Force Global

  • From the Frontlines: Senior Airman Estiven Gonzalez

    Senior Airman Estiven Gonzalez, 509th Operations Support Squadron SERE specialist, returned from his six-month deployment to Southwest Asia in November. There, he provided essential training to more than 600 soldiers who depended on him to teach them how to avoid capture and what to do if they were

  • Malmstrom chaplain shares story of contemplating suicide

    Chaplain (Capt.) John VanderKaay knows what it is like to contemplate suicide. He also knows what it's like to seek help for his feelings and begin the healing process. He has been there and shares his story with anyone it might help.Three months after returning from a tour in Iraq, he made a

  • From the Frontlines: Staff Sgt. Laura Burton

    Her ears ring from the screaming sirens on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. She freezes up, focusing on the tornado of questions going through her mind. Confusion is the only word to describe her current state. She shakes the shock away. Seeing her colleagues dropping to the ground and covering

  • Focus on the Force: Staff Sgt. Campos Rivera

    Staff Sgt. Armando Campos Rivera, the 341st Missile Operations Squadron nuclear certified equipment monitor, demonstrates on a daily basis the importance of the Air Force's three core values - integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.His dedication to excellence in all we do

  • Global Strike Airmen save lives by employing the Wingman concept

    Two Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen saved a life recently when they alerted base security forces to the suicidal thoughts of their friend, employing the Wingman concept to get the ailing Airman the help he needed."A life was saved in our command that day because immediate action was taken by

  • From the Frontlines: 1st Lt. Tom Meltzer

    More than 6,000 miles from this Air Force Global Strike Command base, 1st Lt. Tom Meltzer, 509th Operations Group chief of target intelligence, was called to serve his first deployment at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Lieutenant Meltzer departed Whiteman May 2010 for six-months and trained at the

  • From the Frontlines: Senior Airman Dustin Chandler

    Born and raised in Murphysboro, Ill., and now stationed here, Senior Airman Dustin Chandler, 509th Logistics Readiness Squadron, material management journeyman, has comfortably lived in the Midwest all his life. Airman Chandler said he had an experience like no other when he left this Air Force

  • From the Frontlines: Staff Sgt. Jennifer Winkels

    Ensuring infrastructure projects were done according to specifications across Joint Base Balad, Iraq, was a duty which was entrusted to Staff Sgt. Jennifer Winkels, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron NCO in charge of construction management during her last deployment, June 14 to Dec. 26,