• Whiteman Base Community Council helps send 18 Airmen Home for the Holidays

    WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. – The holidays are a time for family togetherness, however, for many Airmen, it can be hard to make it home for the holidays.This year, 18 members of Team Whiteman will get to spend their holidays with their families thanks to Whiteman Base Community Council.Some of

  • Exercise Global Thunder 22 underway

    Global Thunder 22 is underway. As in previous years, Global Thunder 22 will include an increase in bomber aircraft flights throughout the exercise, including multiple sortie generations in short windows of time. Our local communities may notice heavier than normal bomber take offs throughout the

  • A Splendid Ceremony: Team Whiteman honors original Striker at Arlington

    Seventy years after the disappearance of a C-124 Globlemaster II over the Atlantic Ocean, members of the 509th Bomb Wing honored, U.S. Lt. Col. James I. Hopkins, during a memorial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.On March 21, 1951, a C-124 Globemaster II commanded by Major Robert J. Bell, 2nd

  • Whiteman Strikers look to bring home the gold

    While Team Whiteman awaits the results of the 2021 Global Strike Challenge competition, many look back on lessons learned over the summer.  The GSC occurs every other year and features the world's premier bomber and ICBM operators and maintainers, helicopter operations and security forces units from

  • FIGHTER PILOT REACHES HISTORIC MILESTONE: 7000 HOURS IN THE A-10C

    Lt. Col. John “Karl” Marks, an Air Force Reserve pilot assigned to the 442d Fighter Wing made history Sept. 1, 2021, as he became the only pilot to reach 7,000 hours in the A-10C Thunderbolt II; in addition to becoming one of the highest-time fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force.