• Not a good day for the bad guys

    Ambushed The scene: a road turned battlefield near Logistics Support Area Anaconda, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2005. The Whiteman Airmen involved: Staff Sgt. Andrew Finan, Airmen 1st Class Cody Newsom and Brittany Musleh, 732nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base.

  • 8th AF Command Chief visits

    Command Chief Master Sgt. Todd Kabalan, the 8th Air Force command chief master sergeant, visited Whiteman this week to see the 509th Bomb Wing perform its mission first hand. Chief Kabalan is stationed at 8th Air Force Headquarters, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and is the senior enlisted adviser

  • DOD recognizes 509er

    A Team Whiteman member was recently recognized as the best logistician in the Department of Defense. Capt. Adam Minnich, 509th Logistic Readiness Squadron, received the 2007 Defense Logistics "Beyond The Call of Duty: Logistician of the Year" award at an awards banquet in Washington, D.C., Nov. 27.

  • Climb Mount Nitaka

    "Climb Mount Nitaka", sent on Dec. 2, 1941,was the coded signal that Japan had made the decision to go to war. Having sortied in late November, the Japanese battle fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo was now north of Hawaii in violent seas surrounded by a picket line of submarines

  • December is National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month

    "You Don't Drink and Drive - You Win.........You Drink & Drive - You Lose" Every day is "the day" to recognize the importance of preventing driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs! Since 1981 every President of the United States has demonstrated his commitment to preventing impaired

  • Warrior Airman

    Our new Airman's Creed published shortly before I deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. In September, our 455 Expeditionary Wing Commander had posters of the creed framed and posted in every office. I'm not sure if its the sight of the Creed at every turn, or the deployment experience, or the

  • Spirited remembrance; Stealth bombers mark Pearl Harbor event

    Two members of the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron piloted their B-2 Spirit stealth bomber over Pearl Harbor December 7 in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. This flight was part of a stealth bomber global power sortie, where the aircrews practice their global reach capability by flying more