A team of 5th Medical Group (MDG) Airmen attempt to stabilize a simulated patient during a 5th MDG training day at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Jan. 18, 2023. The training simulated that the patient suffered a life threatening hemorrhage, a brain injury and...
I was assigned my Honorary Commander just before COVID, which pretty much curtailed any public events on the Minot Air Force Base. I can remember our first Military Affairs zoom meeting, then MAC Chair Randy Hauck made mention of the many new Honorary Commanders that...
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AFNS) -- In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 98-144, creating a federal holiday honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Later, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday as a national day of...
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --More than 150 personnel who took part in drafting the LGM-35 Sentinel Programmatic Agreement participated in a historic signing event Dec 16, 2022, which simultaneously took place in 11 different locations. The Air Force’s project to...
Wow, what a shock to the system this last week has been! First the epic 3-day blizzard, then the heart stopping cold front which brought negative high temperatures. Phew, North Dakota is not for the faint of heart! Many people on the base are transplants from warmer...
Offutt AFB –U.S. Air Force Gen, Anthony J. Cotton relieved U.S. Navy Adm. Charles “Chas” A. Richard as commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) during a ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base today. Cotton becomes USSTRATCOM’s 8th commander, highlighting the...
Barksdale Air Force Base -- Gen. Thomas Bussiere assumed command of Air Force Global Strike Command during a ceremony Dec. 7, becoming the newest leader of the organization responsible for the nation’s only intercontinental ballistic missile and strategic bomber...
Master Sgt. Stephaun McKinley, 791st Missile Security Forces Squadron operations and training superintendent, discusses how an early experience in his career inspired him to become a commissioned officer at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Nov. 3, 2022. McKinley...
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – Lt. Col. Brandon Wheeler assumed command of the 69th Bomb Squadron from Lt. Col. Bryson Ayers during a change of command ceremony at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on December 2, 2022.Those in attendance included families of both...
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. --Airman 1st Class Jarious George from the 5th Force Support Squadron, Airman 1st Class Kojo Affainie and Airman Constanza De Puerta, from the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron, earn their United States citizenship during a naturalization...
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