• Air Force announces Ellsworth as first B-21 base

    Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, has been selected as the preferred location for the first operational B-21 bomber and the formal training unit. Whiteman AFB, Missouri, and Dyess AFB, Texas, will receive B-21 Raiders as they become available.

  • Wings Over Whiteman returns in 2019

    The 2019 Wings Over Whiteman Air and Space Show and Open House will take place June 15 and 16, featuring Air Combat Command’s F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, the A-10C Thunderbolt II demo team and the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team. This free, family friendly event will draw spectators

  • Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

    Freedom, peace, prosperity and opportunity. The American Dream at full bloom can look like a lot of different things, but it usually stems from the heartfelt desire for these fruit of democracy. For one 16 year old girl from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the freedom to choose her own path as a woman and the

  • B-2 bombers deploy to Hawaii

    U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and Airmen, from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri deployed, here in support of U.S. Strategic Command’s (USSTRATCOM) Bomber Task Force (BTF) mission, Jan. 10, 2019.

  • Low Observable maintenance

    The B-2 Spirit is an American heavy penetration strategic bomber designed to break through dense anti-aircraft defenses without being detected. But, before the B-2 Spirit is ready to take stealthy flight, it must pass the discerning eyes and careful hands of the Whiteman Air Force Base maintenance

  • Whiteman families build bonds, style hair

    The Airman and Family Readiness Program at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, hosted the first Braids to Buns event on November 6, 2018 at the base’s Youth Center.

  • Navajo Airman continues family's military legacy at Whiteman

    Airman 1st Class Phillip Rock is part of his family’s legacy of military service – a legacy that, in fact, would not have continued if it weren’t for that military service itself.Stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Rock is a B-2 weapons load crew member in the 509th Aircraft Maintenance