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Students on the Knob Noster High School robotics team designed a protective panel that covers four switches in the cockpit of the $2.2 billion B-2 Stealth Bomber. Each panel costs $1.25 to produce. A four-switch panel called the airframe mounted accessory drive, or AMAD, sits on the left side of the B-2’s two-person cockpit. The AMAD switches control the connection of the engines to the hydraulic and generator power of the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

Feb. 1, 2019

Stealth pilots, high school students collaborate to create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. — Across the Air Force, changes to equipment, policies and procedures have been made to save money, to save time and to save lives.

Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, delivers the keynote address during the USSTRATCOM Leadership Fellows Program kickoff at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall, Jan. 17, 2019. Each year, 10 USSTRATCOM civilian employees are hand-selected as USSTRATCOM Strategic Leadership Fellows for the spring semester. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ian Hoachlander)

Jan. 28, 2019

USSTRATCOM kicks off 2019 Strategic Leadership Fellows Program

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Ten U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) civilian employees are participating in the 2019 USSTRATCOM Strategic Leadership Fellows Program, a 13-week graduate level professional development course, held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). The program’s kickoff event took place at UNO’s Mammel Hall, Jan. 17, 2019.

Navy veteran Chief Petty Officer Leonard Kulceski poses for a photo around World War II. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

Jan. 24, 2019

CPOs honor Cavite bombing survivor, hero

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Pearl Harbor wasn’t the only location to feel the wrath of Japanese aircraft in early December of 1941 – Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, was all but destroyed. Many died and many more were injured. One survivor, Navy veteran Chief Petty Officer Leonard Kulceski, watched the ship next to his own go down while he and the other members of his ship worked together to pull other Sailors out of the water.

Jan. 1, 2019

January Enlisted Corps Spotlight

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Staff Sgt. Eledys Perez, target analyst with the Plans and Policy Directorate, hails from Deland, Florida, and has 8 years of military service.

Dr. Rebecca Taylor, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) anthropologist, briefs U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kenneth Henson during a tour of the DPAA facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 9, 2018. Henson visited the DPAA Laboratory to collect the remains of his grand uncle-in-law, U.S. Army Cpl. Albert Mills, who was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during the Korean War. Henson served as the special escort for Mills’ remains during transport to final resting place in Dallas. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kathrine Dodd)

Dec. 13, 2018

USSTRATCOM Marine escorts family member home

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Following 68 years of uncertainty for the Mills’ family, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kenneth Henson, U.S. Strategic Command cyber network operator, helped bring them closure Nov. 10, 2018, by providing a special escort for his grand uncle-in-law, U.S. Army Cpl. Albert Mills. Mills, who was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry

Sgt. Edward Fifer, J5N2 CENTCOM Targeting Analyst,
Enlisted Corps Spotlight December

Nov. 30, 2018

December Enlisted Corps Spotlight

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Sgt. Fifer, target analyst with the Plans and Policy Directorate, hails from Gillette, Wyoming, and has 5 years, 6 months of military service.

Nov. 16, 2018

Air Force announces bases to support B-21 Raider mission

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Air Force has selected Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, to coordinate maintenance and sustainment of the B-21 Raider and Edwards AFB, California, to lead testing and evaluation of the next generation long-range strike bomber.

Nov. 8, 2018

Secretary of the Air Force visits Vandenberg Air Force Base

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson visited Vandenberg Air Force Base, California to experience the mission up close Nov. 6, 2018.During the visit, Wilson saw the Combined Space Operations Center, 576th Flight Test Squadron, ICBM Launch Support Center, ICBM Telemetry Integrated Processing System, Western Range Operations Control Center, met

Oct. 29, 2018

U.S. Strategic Command Conducts Exercise Global Thunder

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) today commenced Global Thunder 2019, an annual command and control exercise that provides training opportunities that assess all USSTRATCOM mission areas and joint and field training operational readiness, with a specific focus on nuclear readiness.USSTRATCOM conducts global operations in coordination with other

U.S. Army Col. Gary Baumann, left, the first commander of the 100th Missile Defense Brigade, accepts the brigade's flag from U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Cosumano, Jr., commanding general, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, during the activation ceremony of the 100th MDB Oct. 16, 2003, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The MDB is manned both by Colorado Army National Guard and active-component soldiers.

Oct. 26, 2018

Nation’s only missile defense brigade celebrates 15 years of dedicated service to homeland defense

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Soldiers of the Colorado Army National Guard’s 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense), will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the brigade’s activation with alumni, mission partners, and their families, and other officials Oct. 26, 2018, at a ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colorado.