Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

The transporter erector is raised during an annual proofload test at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 2, 2019. A transporter erector is used to downstage a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile rocket engine into silos. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)

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Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

An Airman with the 791st Maintenance Squadron mechanical and pneudraulics section controls pressure applied to the hydraulic tensioner assembly at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 1, 2019. The required annual proofload exercise tests tension up to 120,000 pounds. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)

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Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

Airmen with the 791st Maintenance Squadron mechanical and pneudraulics section tension the hoist on a transporter erector at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 1, 2019. The 791st MXS maintainers are responsible for transporter erector inspections, periodic maintenance and troubleshooting procedures. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)

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Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

Airmen with the 791st Maintenance Squadron mechanical and pneudraulics section tension the hoist on a transporter erector at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 1, 2019. The maintainers are required to pump hydraulic fluid into a tensioner 30-feet below ground during a proofload test. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)

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Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

A transporter erector is raised during an annual proofload test at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 2, 2019. A transporter erector is used to downstage a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile rocket engine into silos. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)

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Rise & Shine: Team Minot Airmen test ICBM rocket loading system

Published April 5, 2019
By Senior Airman Ashley Boster
5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE , N.D. --

Airmen with the 791st Maintenance Squadron mechanical and pneudraulics section tension the hoist on a transporter erector at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 1, 2019. The 791st MXS maintainers are responsible for transporter erector inspections, periodic maintenance and troubleshooting procedures. A transporter erector is used to downstage a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile rocket engine into silos. (U.S. Air Force photos by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)