• The line is ready ... fire!

    Instructors at the Whiteman Combat Arms Training and Maintenance Shop provide more than just firearms training for Airmen."We provide offensive and defensive life-saving skills for Airmen deploying down-range and Airmen required to carry weapons here," said Staff Sgt. John Williams, 509th Security

  • The Whiteman Underground

    Buried deep under the Missouri mud at Whiteman Air Force Base, is a series of keys and buttons that, at one time, could obliterate an entire nation if necessary.From 1963 to 1995, Whiteman was home to the 351st Strategic Missile Wing, which operated the Minuteman I and Minuteman II Intercontinental

  • AR shop provides heavy maintenance for B-2 Spirit

    Even with its advanced technology, many back-up systems, skilled maintainers and other goodies that no one can talk about, the B-2 can still break hard.When it comes to something more than routine maintenance, the crew chiefs of the 509th Maintenance Squadron Aero Repair Shop step up to the

  • "Super Dave" reaches 1,000-hour milestone

    "The sun was coming up over Manhattan as we re-entered the U.S. at 20,000 feet," said Lt. Col. Dave Anderson, 394th Combat Training Squadron chief of B-2 training systems. "As I banked the plane to turn on course, I looked right down my wing into Ground Zero. Then, as we rolled out, on our way back

  • Whiteman Spirit Award

    Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler, 509th Bomb Wing commander, presented Capt. Glen DeMars, 509th Operations Support Squadron, and Master Sgt. Britian Yocum, 509th Medical Support Squadron, with the Whiteman Spirit Award Feb. 17, 2010.General Wheeler nominated the Airmen for the award for their work in

  • Wheel and Tire Shop keeps jets rollin'

    The majority of aircraft maintainers focus on keeping jets in the air, but the Airmen at the 509th Maintenance Squadron Wheel and Tire Shop have a different focus: getting those jets back to terra firma.  The two-member shop that maintains all of Whiteman's B-2 and T-38 tires is rarely idle, as a

  • New system saves money, provides better training

    The 509th Bomb Wing recently received a mobile hypoxia familiarization trainer to provide refresher training for pilots here.Pilots go through extensive training to be able to fly. Part of that training is a trip to an altitude chamber to help them experience the effects of rapid decompression on

  • Whiteman load crews put to the test

    Four Airmen stand at attention, poised and polished, ready for action. The team leader, with a stern look of confidence in his eye, shatters the silence. "Break," he calls out, and the crew rushes to the B-2 weapons-load-trainer, each to his position, putting years of muscle memory and adrenaline to

  • Air Force Global Strike Command gains three bomber bases

    Air Force Global Strike Command assumed responsibility for all long-range, nuclear-capable bombers Monday as its commander commemorated the occasion by visiting each unit, in three different states, on the same day."We're a new command, a command for the 21st Century," said Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz,

  • AFGSC commander visits wing, welcomes Airmen to MAJCOM

    Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Air Force Global Strike Command commander, visited the 509th Bomb Wing Feb. 1-3, marking the transition of the wing from Air Combat Command to AFGSC.During his stay here, General Klotz also spoke with wing and civilian leaders, visited facilities and flew a B-2 Spirit. "It is