A View From Our Side: Weekly Post Brief Continues To Grow…
It Started As An IdeaThe Northern Sentry does not have a lot of staff, well four to be exact. Ted Bolton owns the Northern Sentry, I am in Marketing & Sales, Erin Beene is our on base reporter and Nikki Greening is our Creative Director/Graphics. Each week we are tasked with producing a 28 page, […]
91st Security Forces Group Fourth
Quarter and Annual Award Winners
Defenders,It does not go unnoticed the amount of effort you all put into making the 91 SFG the greatest in Defender Nation!Chief Broughman and I are beyond proud of all you continue to accomplish. That said, it is truly humbling to watch many of you stand out amongst a team chalked full of superstars! Please […]
2023 DAF Art Contest opens March 1
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force 2023 Art Contest opens March 1 and runs through April 30, 2023.For the first time, this year’s contest includes both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art. The submission window is extended to allow artists time to submit in their age category. Any […]
Month of the Military Child (MOMC) Working Group
April is the perfect month to usher in Spring but it is also a great time to “Purple Up” for military connected students! The Month of the Military Child (MOMC) is celebrated in April and is a time to show our support for military connected students across the United States and also abroad. In North […]
The Cutest Mardi Gras Parade in Minot
Fat Tuesday -Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday and the kickoff of the Lent season- is not widely celebrated in North Dakota. But this year it was embraced in the cutest way possible. On the morning of Tuesday, February 21, a handful of toddlers and preschoolers marched around Building 164 for its first-ever Mardi […]
Jr. Journalism: The Reasons I Enjoy Winnipeg, Canada
Winnipeg is a city in Manitoba, Canada and is about four hours away from Minot Air Force Base by car. In this essay, I will discuss why I enjoy Winnipeg. The reasons I enjoy Winnipeg are the yummy foods, Pirates Cove, The Children’s Museum, playing with different people, and The Leaf. In Winnipeg, I adore […]
Jr. Journalism: North Plains Elementary School
North Plains is a great school! It has LOTS of people to play with. Gym is a LOT OF FUN, it is half an hour long! At Music, we make/play songs! At Library, you get 1-3 books, it is SO FUN! At Counselor, we read a book, it is GOOOOOOOOOOD! In Kindergarten, your teacher is […]
An Average Day
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. —It was a winter day like any other at Minot AFB: cold, snowing and rife with ice covering roads and walkways. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Nicholas Thompson, 5th Security Forces Squadron response team leader, was starting his afternoon shift after a cozy morning at home. ”I got up to […]
A Hard Place to Leave
Not all of us have lived in a location that we find undesirable. But if you have, you may have borrowed a quote from a song by Mac Davis that talks about “happiness seeing Lubbock in your rear view mirror.” It may be true that heading south because you can’t go north is going toward […]
Airmen of GT: 791 MMXS Airmen
participate in GT 245
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, ND —The Airmen who perform the vital mission of ensuring intercontinental ballistic missiles meet operational standards are some of the most skillfully trained and dedicated personnel in the Air Force. Late last year, a crew of these Airmen from the 791st Missile Maintenance Squadron pulled an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM out […]
