• Whiteman Warriors graduate from NCO Academy

    Fifteen Whiteman Warriors graduated from the NCO academy Feb. 15 at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. All graduates are tech. sergeants. 509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Shane Swanson Tracey Medford 509th Maintenance Squadron James W Manning 509 Security Forces Squadron Sean T Ring Alexander Angulo

  • Deployed bomber personnel participate in joint SERE training exercise

    After parachuting into in the jungles of Guam, a member of the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron falls to the ground, checks his body for wounds and then prepares to evade the enemy. Staff Sgt. Brooks Steinbacher, a Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape specialist from Whiteman AFB, Mo., did not

  • Q&A A Lesson in Heritage with the 8th CMSAF

    (Editor's note: Sam Parish is the eighth Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. As CMSAF, he advised secretaries of the Air Force Verne Orr and Russell A. Rourke and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles A. Gabriel. Chief Parish advised them on matters concerning welfare, effective

  • Whiteman Spirit Award

    Senior Airman Mike Womack and Airman Ronald Santos, 509th Maintenance Squadron, received Whiteman Spirit Awards from Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, 509th Bomb Wing commander,Feb. 11. Master Sgt. Brad Plante, 509th MXS, nominated Airmen Womack and Santos for the award. While returning to Whiteman Air

  • Guard members brave cold waters for special cause

    For the past seven years, Missouri National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Doug Christie, of Warrensburg, has jumped into the frigid waters of the Lake of the Ozarks. Why? He is a "polar bear" plunger for the Special Olympics of Missouri. "Special Olympics does great work for citizens with disabilities," said