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ICBM Deployments: A Balance to Meet Operational Needs and Promote Personal Predictability
December 20, 2021 — MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – Going on alert and tripping out away from your home to a missile alert facility for a week every three weeks sounds daunting to most, but this life is normal for most of the 91st Missile Wing. For the men and women who support one of the nation’s most strategic assets in the Department of Defense, the missile squadron deployment cycle has a significant implication on training, family stability, morale, and as a result their ability to proficiently carry out their missions... MORE

90 CES Fire Department partners with local agencies for Missile Silo Rescue Training
December 17, 2021 — The 90th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Prevention Flight hosted Missile Silo Rescue Training for seven mutual aid fire departments, Dec. 11, 2021, at the base’s U-01 Launch Facility Trainer... MORE

Global Strike Challenge '21 announces 'Best of the Best'
December 9, 2021 — Air Force Global Strike Command announced the winners of Global Strike Challenge 2021 at the multi-month competition’s capstone event Dec. 8, here.Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile operations and maintenance, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force... MORE

USFFC Holds Change of Command, Welcomes 43rd Commander
December 8, 2021 — NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Christopher Grady was relieved by Adm. Daryl Caudle as commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFFC), in a ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 7... MORE

Austin Tells Reagan Forum How U.S. Will Take on Challenge of China
December 6, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- "China is not 10-feet tall," Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said at the Reagan Library in California today, and the United States is not a "country that fears competition."China is a challenge to the United States and all democracies, but America and its allies will rise to the challenge. "And we're going to meet this one... MORE

90 OSS earns best overall ICBM operations award
December 1, 2021 — The 90th Operations Support Squadron was awarded the Col. Lowell F. McAdoo Award thus capturing the title of the best Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Operations Support Squadron in Air Force Global Strike Command for the year 2020 at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The 90 OSS earned the award by executing 364 nuclear orders, coordinating... MORE

Defense Official Says Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Is Vital to Security
December 1, 2021 — For decades, the United States has had electromagnetic spectrum superiority over adversaries in all domains. But that superiority can no longer be taken for granted, a Defense Department official said... MORE

AFCEC leads bed-down efforts for B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber
November 22, 2021 — JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is leading a large-scale, multi-year facilities construction project to deliver infrastructure needed to support the bed down of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, the future backbone of the Air Force bomber fleet. The B-21 Raider will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and... MORE

Total Force Returns to Dyess Air Force Base with Conclusion of Bomber Task Force Mission in Europe
November 19, 2021 — Two hundred Dyess Airmen returned home Nov. 18 from a six-week Bomber Task Force mission in Europe. The mission first arrived Oct. 6, 2021, in Fairford, England, and for the past six weeks, the units have supported multiple agile combat employment exercises alongside allies in Europe and Africa. Every unit from Dyess played a critical role in... MORE

Minot AFB hosts Nuclear Weapons Council, focuses on strategic effectiveness, investment
November 19, 2021 — Members of the Nuclear Weapons Council visited Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Nov. 17, 2021, making the trip the first time the council toured a Department of Defense installation under the current administration... MORE