• Your winter-holiday safety checklist

    With its festivities and inclement weather, the holiday season presents many safety trials both indoors and out. Being prepared and following simple safety tips can help keep individuals safe and warm this winter.An increase in travel and celebration are often seen during the holiday season. Both

  • SMOKEX: Success

    Members of the 509th Weapons Squadron, U.S. Air Force Weapons School from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wa., supported the 509th Bomb Wing during the SMOKEX Exercise Nov. 16. They showcased their capabilities and limitations of each assigned unit as they work jointly in one mission. SMOKEX is a large

  • Housing office addresses upcoming privatization

    The U.S. Air Force selected Balfour Beatty Communities, LLC to privatize military family housing for the Western Group Bases, to include Whiteman Air Force Base.In an effort to improve family housing options for this Air Force Global Strike Command community, the Air Force has reinvigorated the

  • Dark Knights Strike in Challenge

    Global Strike Challenge returns for a second time, Nov. 5-9 at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., welcoming top security forces, maintainers and missile and bomber crews in head-to-head competition. The competition rewards excellent performance scores in operations, security forces and maintenance

  • Airmen perform maintenance to keep A-10's flying

    As the Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II's climb high into the sun to fly, fight and win, Airmen from the 442nd Maintenance Squadron are on the job day and night to maintain their engines. They keep the warthogs in the skies so they can continue to provide close air support to Airmen and other

  • Whiteman Airmen help build, hope to Joplin

    Twenty-five Airmen from the 509th Civil Engineer Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base volunteered with the Joplin and Tulsa Habitat for Humanity project Nov. 1. With more than a combined total of 230 hours, the Airmen planned, traveled and spent the day to help build 10 homes, for 10 families in a