• DAPS conducts open house event here

    The Whiteman Air Force Base facility of the Document Automation & Production Service will conduct an open house Aug. 30. Customers are invited to stop by from 8 a.m. - noon at 930 Arnold Ave, Ste. 7. The staff is taking this opportunity to show off local capabilities and providing information

  • Facts about sensitive teeth

    Have you ever wanted to enjoy a glass of cold ice-water but hesitated because you knew it would be uncomfortable or even painful for your teeth? Do you simply avoid eating certain foods? It is possible that some of your teeth have surfaces with erosion or weakened enamel. Enamel, the outer layer of

  • Three combat Airmen recognized

    Three Team Whiteman members earned Bronze Star medals for displaying exceptionally meritorious service while deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Brig. Gen. Greg Biscone, 509th Bomb Wing commander, presented the Bronze Star to Capt. Adam Minnich and Tech. Sgt.

  • Wing announces quarterly award winners

    The 509th Bomb Wing honored second quarter award winners during a breakfast at the Mission's End July 26. The winners are: Company Grade Officer Capt. Andrew Huckstadt, 509th Maintenance Operations Squadron, is the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter. The lead B-2 mechanical engineer was selected

  • Services depends on you

    Consider for a moment how life would be if we didn't have the wonderful luxuries and recreational opportunities that the 509th Services Squadron offers us on a daily basis here. Okay, moment's over, it's too harsh to imagine. Let's discuss instead how our award-winning Services team relies, in many

  • BX celebrates back to school "tax-free holiday" every day

    While stores across Johnson County will be jammed for a handful of days in the coming months for "tax-free" holidays on select items, Whiteman's base exchange continues to offer tax-free shopping every day on everything in the store. With merchandise ranging from shoes, school supplies, clothing and

  • It’s the time of the season … for PCSing

    Warm weather, sunny days, kids out of school. Must be that time of the year again - moving season. It's a sure sign of summer when the huge trucks clog neighborhood streets and cardboard boxes clutter lawns like clover. For outgoing families, the stress increases as the days click down. So many

  • Agreement marks environmental milestone for Whiteman

    With a stroke of the pen another chapter in Whiteman's Cold War history was brought to a close Tuesday in Kansas City. Air Force, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Missouri Department of Natural Resources officials signed a Long-Term Stewardship Agreement for the Missouri Minuteman II Missile

  • 2006 study shows base water is safe

    (Editor's note: This is an annual report on the quality of water delivered by Whiteman Air Force Base. This report is intended to provide Team Whiteman with important information about your drinking water and the efforts made to provide safe drinking water. Users will not be mailed individual copies

  • Ready to deploy: 509th EOD, SFS complete Joint Service training

    With the sun setting in the distance, a UH-60 Blackhawk took flight from Whiteman's north ramp area toward the Cobra site during a week-long joint aerial training scenario. Under the guise of night, the fully loaded helicopter, provided by the Missouri Army National Guard in Fort Leonard Wood,