Minot Air Force Base News Archives

The commander of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., was relieved of command Oct.

The military says the commander at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota has been relieved of his command.The Air Force told The Associated Press on Friday it lost confidence in Col.

Minot Air Force Base has two of the three legs of the strategic nuclear triad, and the men and women of the base play a critical part in the command's mission, said Lt.

Air Force personnel and others who drive past Minot Air Force Base will have to slow down starting Thursday as the speed limit will be reduced from 70 mph to 55 mph, according to officials from the state's transportation department.

15, 2009 Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The RF-A exercise provides unique opportunities to integrate various forces into joint, coalition and bilateral training from a simulated forward operating base.

A truck driver who lost control of a semitrailer carrying missile parts from North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base was distracted by a " large insect" that flew in a window and landed on the driver's back, the military said in a report released.

If the communication system fails at Andrews Air Force Base near the nation's capitol, airmen in North Dakota will be ready to take over.

The controversy over the conduct of Wolfeboro's Historic District Commission continues to intensify.

The fired commander of 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is weighing whether to retire or accept a position at Air Force Space Command headquarters.

It took a failed nuclear inspection, two missile trucks crashing, and junior officers literally dozing off with launch codes.

North Dakota`s congressional delegation says an appropriations bill with money for water projects, flood control and energy research has won final congressional passage.

The U. S. air force said on Thursday the commander of a nuclear wing had been sacked after his unit failed a safety inspection, trucks carrying missile parts crashed and officers under him fell asleep with launch codes in hand.

THE AIR FORCE SAYS IT LOST CONFIDENCE IN COL. CHRISTOPHER AYRES' ABILITY TO COMMAND THE BASE'S 91ST MISSILE WING.

Four tugboats gently maneuvered the iconic World War II battleship USS Missouri into a dry dock on Wednesday, where it will undergo a major refurbishment.

Minot's burn building facility is known as a "Battalion Chief" model. It was purchased from Fire Facilities Inc., a Sun Prairie, Wis., vendor, for $145,000. The tower itself is manufactured by Wesco Steel Fire Training Towers, a company that builds several models of pre-engineered burn buildings.

As of Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, at least 792 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

The Air Force said the truck from the base's 91st Missile Wing, which overturned Aug.

Greetings from our "Little House on the Prairie" in Radville, Saskatchewan . This is definitely prairie country.

Jim Hill Middle School students donated about 500 pairs of shoes to Glory Kramlich's "Shoes for Afghanistan" drive and donated them during an energetic, school-wide pep rally on Wednesday.

Col. Christopher Ayers, 91st Missile Wing commander tacks on a stripe on Tech. Sgt. Walter Donoghue, 91st Security Support Squadron missile security controller, accompanied by his spouse and daughter at Minot Air Force base during a Stripes for Exceptional Performers promotion ceremony, Sept.

North Dakota 's US Senators are asking the defense secretary to retain America's nuclear missile force.

A new squadron that will be in charge of nuclear stockpiles was re-activated today at Minot Air Force Base .

The new bomb squadron at the Minot Air Force Base has had its first nuclear inspection, just three weeks after it was activated.