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Air Force Global Strike Command activates Provisional 95th Wing at Offutt Air Force Base

As part of the DAF reoptimatization for Great Power Competition, AFGSC activated the 95th Wing (Provisional) at Offutt AFB, Neb., effective Oct 1. In provisional status, the 95th Wing (P) will immediately begin leading planning efforts to stand-up, receive personnel & use facilities at Offutt starting in 2025.

Members of Minot Air Force base’s 91st Missile Wing and Vandenberg Space Force Base’s 576th Flight Test Squadron, coordinate with other agencies during the simulated electronic launch of a Minuteman III (SELM) at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Sept. 17, 2024. The teams tested their ability as combat crews to launch from not only the launch control center (LCC) but from an airborne launch control system aboard a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft, which is capable of remotely launching the fleet of MMIII ICBMs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander)

Proving Credibility: 91st Missile Wing completes simulated test launch

The 91st Missile Wing successfully performed its biennial Simulated Electronic Launch Minuteman test, the first phase of testing for the Minuteman III, at Minot AFB, N.D., on September 17 and 18, 2024.

U.S. Airmen, assigned to the 307th Maintenance Squadron, and a U.S. Air Force civilian employees assemble a B-52 Stratofortress towbar prototype during a demonstration of its capabilities at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Sept. 10, 2024. The new prototype was created in response to a request for a towbar that can meet the speed and readiness requirements inherent in Agile Combat Employment efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Ted Daigle)

AFGSC tests new B-52 Stratofortress towbar prototype

AFGSC recently demonstrated a prototype of a potential new B-52 Stratofortress towbar at Barksdale AFB, La. B-52 maintainers from the 307th Bomb Wing and the 2nd Bomb Wing tested the new prototype under real-world conditions during the week leading to the demonstration.

Raider Reach exercise tests Ellsworth’s combat readiness

Raider Reach exercise tests Ellsworth’s combat readiness

As the sun rose up into the sky ushering in a new day, exercise Raider Reach, a two-week, two-phase exercise involving the entire 28th Bomb Wing, encompassing five groups, 17 squadrons and supporting agencies, and over 4K military and civilian personnel came to a close Sept. 20, 2024.

Under Secretary of the Air Force Melissa G. Dalton, Gen. Anthony Cotton, United States Strategic Command commander; Gen. Thomas Bussiere, Air Force Global Strike Command commander; and Lt. Gen. Andrew Gebara, the Department of the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and integration, participate in the Nuclear Imperative panel at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., Sept 17, 2024. The technology exposition brings together Air Force leadership, industry experts, academia as well as aerospace and cyberspace specialists from around the world to discuss the issues and challenges facing America today. (U.S. Air Force photo by Chad Trujillo)

DoD leaders discuss future of Air Force nuclear deterrent systems

Senior leaders discuss strategic deterrence during a time of Great Power Competition.

A B-21 Raider conducts flight testing, which includes ground testing, taxiing, and flying operations, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The B-21 will be the backbone of the service’s future bomber force, and will possess the range, access and payload to penetrate the most highly-contested threat environments and hold any target around the globe at risk. The bomber platform is being developed through the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, which utilizes streamlined methods to develop, produce and field critical combat capabilities. (Courtesy photo)

Air Force provides B-21 Raider program updates

The B-21 Raider will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers to become the backbone of the Air Force’s flexible global strike capability.

Aircrew pose for a photo

625 STOS completes SELM test

Airmen and Sailors from the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron, Offutt AFB, Neb., 576th Flight Test Squadron, Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., the 91st Missile Wing, Minot AFB, N.D., and the Navy’s Strategic Communications Wing 1, Offutt AFB, completed a simulated electronic launch minuteman (SELM) test at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Sept. 17.

PV/BV 24-4 concludes at Minot AFB

PV/BV 24-4 concludes at Minot AFB

Airmen assigned to the 2nd and 5th Bomb Wings participated in Prairie Vigilance/Bayou Vigilance 24-4, a training operation designed to test the wings’ readiness to conduct deterrence and combat operations here, Sept. 4-8.