• 69 members of Team Whiteman promoted in September

    WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo - Sixty-nine Team Whiteman members were promoted during a promotion ceremony held Aug. 31 at Mission's End. They are: Airman Jerome Miles 509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Michael Weiss 509th Civil Engineer Squadron Eric Wienke 509th Contracting Squadron Airman 1st

  • 509th SFS military working dogs to receive new facility

    Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler, 509th Bomb Wing commander; Kyle Wilkins, district liaison for Rep. Ike Skelton; Elaine Horn, mayor of Sedalia; Ray Santee, commercial division manager of Free Country Design and Construction Inc.; and other distinguished guests presented the proud 509th Security Forces

  • 2009 Critical Days of Summer wrap-up

    The Air Force's 2009 101 Critical Days of Summer officially ends Sept. 7. Unfortunately, tragic mishaps have taken the lives of 19 Airman throughout the Air Force. While Whiteman has not experienced any fatalities, the 509th Bomb Wing has experienced 25 mishaps resulting in reportable injuries, with

  • Pull the chocks maintainers "Rock"

    Twenty B-2 bombers are assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing. The B-2 brings massive firepower to bear, in a short time, anywhere on the globe through previously impenetrable defenses. See the slideshow here.

  • 72nd TES evaluates mission capabilities

    The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron here took part in Combat Sledgehammer Aug. 17 as part of Air Combat Command's nuclear weapon system evaluation program. The 72nd TES is a tenant unit stationed at Whiteman. Their chain-of-command runs through the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group at Nellis AFB,

  • Getting a face lift

    Members from the 509th Maintenance and Munitions squadrons restore the protective coating on a KC-97 static display here today. The restoration, which is required every five years, is scheduled to take a month. During this time Airman will sand, repaint and perform any required sheet metal repair to

  • Communications squadron unites

    Members of the 509th Communication Squadron are scheduled to receive a new home in the fall of 2010. A ceremony Aug. 25 marked the ground breaking of a new combined facility on Spirit Boulevard and 4th Street here. The new facility will be 17,140 square feet and house more than 150 communication

  • Welcome home: First family moves into new base housing subdivision

    Airman 1st Class Joseph Robin, his wife, Molly, and their 11-month old daughter, Charli, were welcomed into a new home on Vosler Avenue Aug. 21 in the new Bear Lake base housing subdivision during a ribbon cutting ceremony here  . Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler, 509th Bomb Wing commander, his wife,