RPP application process open through Dec. 9
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas —Active duty Air Force officers and enlisted Airmen who are interested in becoming rated officers can apply for the Spring 2024 Air Force Rated Preparatory Program now through Dec. 9, 2023. The Rated Preparatory Program provides qualified Airmen an opportunity to gain and strengthen basic aviation skills in advance of […]
Minot Air Force Base Investigating Deaths of Three Airmen In One Month
Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is investigating the deaths of three of its Airmen in October. The base could not provide further details on the incidents, but officials said they worked with higher headquarters to make extra chaplains, counselors, and mental health professionals available for grieving Airmen and family members. “This is not a topic […]
Innovation is Key -It Starts With an Idea
For the men and women working at Atomic Spark “It’s an additional duty” according to Col Stephen Kroft who is the head of the 5 CONS on Minot Air Force Base. “I am passionate about innovation and have always loved solving problems”. Atomic Spark is the innovation cell for the base according to Kroft. “Contracting […]
Allvin formally welcomed as 23rdAir Force Chief of Staff
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AFNS) —Promising to lead the Total Force with “humility and resolve,” Gen. David W. Allvin was ceremoniously welcomed into his role as the 23rd Air Force Chief of Staff Nov.17 during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews.Allvin was joined by his wife, Gina, their three children, as well as former chief […]
New Sentinel ICBM ‘Struggling’ Due to Complexity, Kendall Says
The LGM-35A Sentinel program to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is “struggling” due to the breadth of its scope and the fact that it has been so long since the Air Force has done a wholesale ICBM replacement—making cost estimation iffy—Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Nov. 13. Speaking at the Center for […]
AFGSC names 2023 Global Strike Challenge winners
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. —Air Force Global Strike Command announced the winners of Global Strike Challenge 2023 at the multi-month competition’s capstone event Nov. 8. 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 Global Strike Command, […]
Directors from National Laboratories immerse in Global Strike mission
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. —Minot Air Force Base, N.D., and Whiteman AFB, Mo., hosted senior officials representing national laboratories and academic institutions, providing them the opportunity to immerse with the mission and weapons systems of the nuclear enterprise, Oct. 17-19, 2023. Maj. Gen. Jason Armagost, 8th Air Force and Joint-Global Strike Operations Center commander, […]
North Dakota Delegation Represented at Minuteman III Launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base
Minot Area Chamber EDC (MACEDC) Task Force 21 led a delegation of North Dakota officials on a strategic military engagement with Minot Air Force Base (MAFB) and Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) to the 377 Test and Evaluation Group at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The visit included mission briefs, meeting with military leadership, […]
Senate confirms Allvin to be Air Force’s 23rd chief of staff
WASHINGTON (AFNS) —The U.S. Senate confirmed Gen. David W. Allvin Nov. 2 to be the 23rd Air Force chief of staff, partially breaking through a blockade on all military confirmations to install the decorated commander, strategist and pilot as the service’s highest-ranking officer and uniformed leader.The vote was 95 to 1. Speaking moments after his […]
Minuteman III test provides vital data before termination
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. —Space Launch Delta 30 safely terminated an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean at 12:06 a.m. Pacific Time Nov. 1, due to an anomaly during a test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.An anomaly is any unexpected event during the test. Since anomalies may arise […]
