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Food that fuels the force

Food that fuels the force

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. --Team Minot’s Missile Alert Feeding Operation (MAFO) team has been selected as one of two finalists for the 2023 John L. Hennessy Award, a commendation that highlights outstanding achievement in the food service career field. Earlier this...

Completion of Juniper Oak 23.2 Exercise

Completion of Juniper Oak 23.2 Exercise

TAMPA, Fla. – Today, U.S. Central Command and the Israel Defense Forces concluded Juniper Oak 23.2, the largest U.S.-Israel partnered exercise in history. Juniper Oak 23.2 integrated U.S. and Israeli 5th generation fighter assets, the USS George H.W. Bush Carrier...

Inspiring Tomorrow’s Airmen

Inspiring Tomorrow’s Airmen

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- What happens when a goal you have feels so far away? Does it become impossible or do the trials and tribulations make victory taste sweeter? One Airman at Minot learned the answer to that question and showed others what hard work can...

Honorary Commanders Are Friends For Life

Honorary Commanders Are Friends For Life

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...

Remember to not just celebrate but act

Remember to not just celebrate but act

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...

Sentinel agreement signedin historic ceremony

Sentinel agreement signed
in historic ceremony

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...

Nothing Can Stop the U.S. Air Force (and families)

Nothing Can Stop the U.S. Air Force (and families)

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...

Bussiere assumes command ofAir Force Global Strike Command

Bussiere assumes command of
Air Force Global Strike Command

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...

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