• Rekindled program provides support for special needs families

    Three years after her son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, Master Sgt. Mona Wendzillo, 509th Force Support Squadron NCO in charge of readiness, can still recall her confusion and frustration. After the initial diagnosis, Sergeant Wendzillo spent a great deal of

  • Brig. Gen. Scott Vander Hamm assumes command of 509th BW

    Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. - Brig. Gen. Scott Vander Hamm assumed command of the 509th Bomb Wing in a ceremony here Monday morning, transferring the leadership of America's only B-2 wing from Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler.Maj. Gen. Floyd Carpenter, 8th Air Force commander, presided over the ceremony,

  • New dorms improve Airmen morale, enhance Eighth Air Force mission

    Across the Eighth Air Force, renovation and construction products for quality of life improvements to dormitories for single Airmen at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Minot AFB, N.D., and Barksdale AFB, La., are currently underway."Quality of life is an on-going project of the Air Force community,"

  • Motorcycle safety keeps Airmen alive

    Rider fatalities as well as accidents have been on the rise for many years and to this day, remain the biggest threat for Air Force personnel, according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Unfortunately, accidents this year have already taken the lives of 10 Airmen throughout the Air Force.

  • EO strives to maintain unalienable rights for Team Whiteman members

    "We believe that all men have certain unalienable rights. Yet many Americans do not enjoy those rights," -- President Lyndon B. Johnson.The 509th Bomb Wing Equal Opportunity office is charged with safeguarding the rights Team Whiteman members are entitled to. Equal Opportunity strives to promote Air

  • DBIDS registration deadline approaches Oct. 1

    Department of Defense ID card holders who have not registered their government ID cards with the Defense Biometrics Identification System will be denied base access to Whiteman beginning Oct. 1. "If an ID card holder is not registered by this day, they will be turned away and not granted access to

  • MARE preps Whiteman for air show

    Team Whiteman key-response personnel from multiple base agencies are scheduled to act in a major accident response exercise here, Aug. 31."The purpose of the MARE is to exercise and evaluate emergency response procedures, and for this one specifically, procedures if an aircraft crashed during an air

  • Ground equipment maintains Stealth deterrence

    The B-2 stealth bomber is a dramatic leap in technology from traditional bombers that provide global deterrence and air power for the Air Force. With all its innovation and technological advances, the aircraft requires a dedicated ground support to keep it in the skies.More than 90 men and women of

  • From the Frontlines: Senior Airman Cole Koenig

    It would be easy to take for granted the air we breathe, giving little thought to what our bodies are being exposed to in our environment. This all-too-common state of mind is one of the reasons the Air Force employs bioenvironmental engineers, nicknamed the 'BEEs'. During his last deployment to