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  • Maxwell AFB selected as location for MH-139 FTU

    The MH-139 FTU’s mission is to train pilots in providing security and support for the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missile fields spanning Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska. The MH-139 mission will replace the mission of the Air Force Reserve’s 908th Airlift Wing’s aging

  • A family business - 20 AF directors share their mil-to-mil journey

    Something on the chart didn’t look right.  Two directors coming to Twentieth Air Force Headquarters with the same last name?  Was this a typo?  No, they each have a different first initial.  They are the same rank and are married to each other?  This is different.  But it is becoming more common to

  • 91st Missile Wing Airman Pursues Two Dreams

    Capt. Tarina Crook, a 91st Missile Wing Missilier, stationed at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is an airman chasing two dreams. Crook grew up as a military brat in O’Fallen, Illinois. She eventually joined the military and began a long-term career in the Air Force. However, Crook has an additional

  • 377th ABW takes part in Exercise Global Thunder 21

    The 377th Air Base Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base conducted a series of training events, starting Oct. 19, as one of Air Force Global Strike Command’s bases participating in the U.S. Strategic Command “Exercise Global Thunder 21.”

  • Mother-daughter share MMIII test launch experience, decades apart

    In the early morning of June 8, 1994, a then-1st Lt. Linda Tonnies, 740th Missile Squadron operator, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, turned the launch key and launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM for Glory Trip 155 at Vandenberg AFB, California. Little did she know that 26 years later, her

  • Minuteman III test launch demonstrates safe, reliable deterrent

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 12:27 a.m. Pacific Time Oct. 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.The test demonstrates that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is

  • Malmstrom fire department assists in local wildland fire response

    While Montana’s dry, warm summers provide a break from the often cold winters, it’s also a time when wildfires inflict disaster throughout the state. Confronting these fires regularly calls for a total force effort from various fire departments, including volunteer and military.Recently, Airmen from