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  • Team Minot named DAF 2023 General Larry O. Spencer Award winners

    The Department of the Air Force announced the recipients of the 2023 Gen. Larry O. Spencer Innovation Award during a ceremony at the Pentagon, May 8. Members of Team Minot from the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing won the team award for the second year in a row!

  • 5th Bomb Wing executes base-wide readiness exercise

    The 5th Bomb Wing conducted a base-wide readiness exercise, or Warbird Week, from May 1-8. Warbird Week is a routine base-wide readiness exercise designed to test 5th BW Airmen’s abilities to operate in a variety of scenarios. As part of the exercise, various circumstances and conditions were

  • Team Minot Chaplain Corps Wins AFGSC Award

    U.S. Air Force Col. Daniel Hoadley, 5th Bomb Wing Commander, congratulates Team Minot Chaplain Corps on winning the Air Force Global Strike Command Charles I. Carpenter Outstanding Large Chaplain Corps Team Award at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, May 1, 2024. The team award selections are

  • Lt. Gen. Lutton and North Dakota Civic Leaders tour Minot AFB

    Lt. Gen. Micheal J. Lutton, deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, talks to Col. Benjamin Jensen, 5th Bomb Wing commander, during a tour of Dock 7 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 22, 2024. AFGSC provides strategic deterrence, global strike capability, and combat support to

  • 5th LRS supports Exercise Prairie Vigilance/Bayou Vigilance 24-3

    Logistics Readiness Squadron Airmen participated in Exercise Prairie Vigilance/Bayou Vigilance 24-3 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 6-12, 2024. Air Force Global Strike Command maintains a credible strategic capability that enhances deterrence of threats to the United States and its

  • Minot and Barksdale Airmen work together to bolster Exercise PV/BV 24-3

    From April 6-12, 2024, maintenance Airmen from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota and the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana participated in Exercise Prairie Vigilance/Bayou Vigilance 24-3 here. These exercises ensure the always-ready, global strike capability

  • 5th SFS secures success of Exercise PV/BV 24-3

    Airmen from the 5th Security Forces Group provide security for Exercise Prairie Vigilance/Bayou Vigilance 24-3 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April. 6-12, 2024. Minot Air Force Base is committed to its mission of executing nuclear operations and global strike anytime, anywhere, to deter and,

  • Barksdale Conducts Exercise Bayou Vigilance 2024

    Airmen from the 2nd and 5th Bomb Wings trained together while evaluating response and combat operation skills during exercise Bayou Vigilance April 3-12, 2024, at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana.