• 509th BW receives Omaha Trophy

    The 509th Bomb Wing was presented with the U.S. Strategic Command Omaha Trophy, Feb. 22. Gen. Kevin Chilton, U.S. Strategic Command commander, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., presented the award to Brig. Gen. Gary Harencak, 509th Bomb Wing commander, during a ceremony at the Mission's End here. The

  • Whiteman February Promotions

    Airman Daniel Solano, 509th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronDennis Sanchez  and Zachary Smith, 509th Maintenance Squadron Cory Comte, Eric Frese, Justin Leak and Brandon Lentz, 509th Security Forces Squadron Airman First ClassEric Prince, 509th AMXS William Irizarry, 509th Civil Engineer Squadron

  • 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