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Feb. 23, 2024
Air Force missileer hits ‘400 Club’ major career milestone

Commentary written by 341st Operations Group commander about Capt. James Flannigan, 341st Operations Support Squadron missileer, completing his 400th shift on alert, making him the newest member of the “400 Club”.
March 31, 2023
All-women crew controls Montana missile alert facility

On March 23, 2023, it happens that the only personnel who manned Alpha 01-MAF were women from the 341st Missile Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.
Dec. 20, 2021
ICBM Deployments: A Balance to Meet Operational Needs and Promote Personal Predictability

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – Going on alert and tripping out away from your home to a missile alert facility for a week every three weeks sounds daunting to most, but this life is normal for most of the 91st Missile Wing. For the men and women who support one of the nation’s most strategic assets
March 12, 2019
Team Minot wonder women

Even though March is Women’s History Month, the Airmen at Minot Air Force Base break barriers every day.Team Minot supported equality this month by hosting an all-women’s missile alert.“The all-women’s alert is a day where all women in missile career fields come together and pull alert from top to
Nov. 14, 2017
MAPS: Unsung heroes of the missile field

When missile alert facility and launch facility equipment needs to be inspected or repaired, 791st Maintenance Squadron mechanical and pneudraulics section maintainers take charge.From chain hoists to payload transporters, these Airmen are responsible for performing maintenance on equipment used
Sept. 29, 2017
Boosting the brain

As part of move to further modernize the nuclear enterprise, Airmen from the 91st Missile Wing, at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, recently implemented a $68 million upgrade to the LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.First used on June 23, this new device – known as the Data
June 1, 2017
Team Minot cleans the MAFs

The 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing personnel at Minot Air Force Base have teamed up to ensure mission readiness at the missile alert facilities throughout North Dakota.