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  • MINOT TESTS MINUTEMAN III MISSILE WITH LAUNCH FROM VANDENBERG

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen from the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, and the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, aboard the Airborne Launch Control System, launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

  • Mighty Ninety demonstrates weapon system reliability

    The 90th Missile Wing performed a simulated Minuteman III launch Feb. 9.Air Force Global Strike Command conducts Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman tests twice annually to evaluate the readiness of Minuteman III ICBM forces. The command's mission is to provide a safe, secure, effective and ready

  • USSTRATCOM Commander Announces 2015 Omaha Trophy Winners

    In recognition of outstanding support to U.S. Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) strategic deterrence, space and cyberspace missions, U.S. Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney, USSTRATCOM commander, announced the winners of the 2015 Omaha Trophies at USSTRATCOM Headquarters on Feb. 3, 2016.Haney said the winning

  • Helicopter crew saves two lives during search and rescue mission

    An aircrew from the 37th Helicopter Squadron successfully located and saved two men the morning of Jan. 18.Warren aircrew responded to a request from local officials when reports determined that two men had gone missing, Jan. 16, while snowmobile riding in southern Wyoming.The standby crew,

  • 90th MW, MDG commanders break wall for MTF construction project

    The 90th Missile Wing and 90th Medical Group commanders made the ceremonial first sledgehammer blows Jan. 19, to a wall in the 90th MDG Medical Treatment Facility signifying the beginning of a construction project to expand the MTF.Col. Stephen Kravitsky, 90th MW commander, and Col. Hans Ritschard,

  • Biomedical Sciences Corps 51st Anniversary

    The United States Air Force and 341st Missile Wing recognizes the achievements of the men and women who comprise the Biomedical Sciences Corps (BSC) by designating Jan. 25-29, 2016, as BSC Appreciation Week.The BSC's roots date back to 1917 when the Sanitary Corps was established to combat

  • Largest Loser Competition

    Team Malmstrom is ringing in the New Year with the kickoff of the annual Largest Loser Competition, running Jan. 5 - Feb. 27.Coming off of the holiday season can be difficult for some people to get back into eating healthy and hitting the gym regularly.The Largest Loser Competition challenges Airmen

  • Icy water, warm hearts

    The fourth-annual Matthew S. Schwartz Memorial Polar Plunge took place, Jan. 16, in Cheyenne's Sloan Lake with the largest showing of jumpers since its inception.The event hosted 25 teams adding up to a total of 101 jumpers who displayed their support by bravely leaping into the cold waters of Sloan

  • Twentieth Air Force holds safety down day

    The wings of 20th Air Force held a safety down day on Jan. 11 as part of a periodic effort to maintain a focus on safe operations within the command's missions.The four wings of 20th AF are the 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; the 91st Missile Wing, Minot AFB, North Dakota;

  • Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Phones ICBM Crews on New Year’s Eve

    In the hours before the clock struck midnight last night, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was on the phone with two-person crews who were on alert in missile silos at the nation's three intercontinental ballistic missile bases.Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva made it a point to call and