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  • Doolittle’s Raiders and the Air Force Global Strike Historical Connection

    On Dec. 7, 1941, at 7:55 in the morning a Japanese strike force of 353 aircraft launched from six carriers executed a sneak attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, near the city of Honolulu. The entire attack took only one hour and fifteen minutes and nearly crippled the United States

  • Combat Arms Trains in Peace for War

    The 28th Security Forces Squadron Combat Arms formally known as CATM supports the base by helping train Airmen with weapons; they also maintain and keep track all firearms on base at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

  • Malmstrom’s man of many hats

    Throughout Malmstrom’s 13,800 square-mile missile complex, Airmen navigate through small towns and gravel roads everyday to accomplish Air Force Global Strike Command’s mission of providing long range, precision strike capabilities.Whether it’s a defender, missile alert facility manager or a

  • Maintaining Malmstrom’s launch control centers

    Every day, missileers from Malmstrom sit below ground in a control center, ready to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile if called upon by the president. With an array of analog technology, routine maintenance is vital to sustaining lethality.The 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron survivable

  • Bringing home cooking to the missile complex

    Across Malmstrom’s 13,800 square-mile missile complex, hundreds of Airmen head to missile alert facilities and launch facilities every week to ensure the continued success of the wing’s mission.While being away from home for days at a time, missile chefs provide missile field Airmen with a

  • Defending MAFB’s vast missile complex

    From Albuquerque, New Mexico, Airman 1st Class Sierra Lamas, 841st Missile Security Forces Squadron defender, serves in one of the Air Force’s most unique positions: missile security forces.

  • Happy tears after 20 years

    In December 1975, David M. Wandel and three of his fellow crewmembers – Capt. Martin E. Graham Jr., Capt. Joseph M. Furda and 1st Lt. Karwin M. Plucker – passed away in a plane crash just south of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. There was a memorial dedicated to the Ellsworth based crew in June

  • Airman revisits home country with AF LEAP

    He speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English fluently, possesses an undergraduate degree in political science and international studies with a minor in history, and has a master’s degree in public international affairs with a focus in national security.