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Receiving the Purple Star

Receiving the Purple Star

Minot Air Force Base Schools All Qualify for Special Award For a year and a month Joy-Nicole Smith, School Liaison Program Manager, has worked to gain recognition for the three Minot AFB Schools as Purple Star Schools, a special recognition from the North Dakota...

Minot MAF chefs feed the force

Minot MAF chefs feed the force

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. --Missile Alert Facilities (MAF), which can be up to 75 miles away from Minot Air Force Base, operate with a lone chef that ensures the site has well-fed troops. Senior Airman Matthew Chan, 5th Force Squadron food service specialist, tops a...

Sentinel Program a Partnership

Sentinel Program a Partnership

Minot Air Force Base is familiar territory for Brig General Colin Connor. General Connor served as commander of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base from June of 2016 through August of 2018. General Connor returned to Minot and was the guest of the Military...

Celebrate MLK Day with Acts of Service: A Day On, Not a Day Off

Celebrate MLK Day with Acts of Service: A Day On, Not a Day Off

We are about to celebrate MLK Day, a day in which we remember the values for which Dr. King lived, and for which he died. But it’s important that we do more than just remember, or even celebrate Dr. King’s legacy. We must make MLK Day one in which we deliver on Dr....

DAF looking for Airmen, Guardians for grueling Army Ranger School

DAF looking for Airmen, Guardians for grueling Army Ranger School

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) --It’s been called “a laboratory of human endurance,” testing the physical, mental and spiritual grit of the officer and enlisted leaders who undertake it. It’s the Army Ranger School and the Department of the Air Force is...

DOD Releases 2024 Basic Allowance for Housing Rates

DOD Releases 2024 Basic Allowance for Housing Rates

Basic allowance for housing, or BAH, rates for 2024 will increase by an average of 5.4%. The new rates, which are paid to all U.S.-based active-duty members of the uniformed services when government quarters are unavailable, take effect Jan. 1. “The proposed 5.2%...