• RE Flight develops improvements for the B-2

    The B-2 Sprit is hailed as the world's most technologically advanced bomber. With anything, however, there is always room for improvement. That's where the 509th Maintenance Operations Squadron Research Engineering Flight comes in. A four-man crew, the RE Flight's mission is to provide on-site,

  • Team effort results in successful exercise

    Airmen participating in the Major Accident Response Exercise were faced with a weapons transport that had come under enemy fire, resulting in injured casualties, a contamination spill and an ignited B-61 missile. Firefighters, security forces, medical, explosive ordinance and munitions personnel all

  • Whiteman members to be honored at SNCO induction ceremony

    Thirty-eight technical and master sergeants will be inducted into the senior noncommissioned officer tier during a ceremony at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Mission's End Club here. The ceremony recognizes technical sergeants who have displayed the potential for assuming the next higher enlisted grade and

  • 442nd Airmen promoted in September

    Seventeen 442nd Fighter Wing members were promoted in the month of September. They are: Airman Matthew Nall 442nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Senior Airman Jesse Farris 442nd AMXS Joshua Giliberto 442nd Maintenance Squadron Sarah Knauff 442nd AMXS Kirk Simon 442nd Logistics Readiness Squadron

  • ACC commander launches IGNITE Campaign

    ACC, your command is getting ready to fundamentally change the way we do business - and you are critical to its success! The world is fast accelerating into a digital age breaking down longstanding linear processes that served the modern western world and our Air Force so well. Technology and

  • 509th firefighters bring the heat

    Several enlisted and civilian firefighters participated in the simulated aircraft fire to keep their qualifications and skills up to date. The exercise is conducted once a year and firefighters are put into several different scenarios where they are forced to react quickly and accurately.See the

  • 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