• Safety between the lines

    As a Whiteman member and fellow Wingman, we have the responsibility to keep each other safe by watching out for one another while at our home station or deployed and preventing the next mishap. On the road, in or out of the vehicle, is a prime time for us to be vigilant in protecting our Air Force

  • Deployed 509er earns Navy Achievement Medal

    When two F/A-18 Hornets encountered engine trouble and had to land at an air patch at Ali Al Salem, Air Base, Kuwait, Aug. 25-26, Tech. Sgt. Dale Wilson, 509th Operations Support Squadron, currently deployed to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing OSS, spent 36 hours in supporting the aircraft pilots

  • One final check turn

    Seventeen months ago I returned to Whiteman for the last of what have become three extremely rewarding assignments. It felt like I returned home. Many of you introduced or reintroduced yourselves to me as I made my around the base. You did much to turbo-charge my transition and enable me to better

  • Whiteman Spirit Award

    Staff Sgt. Dexter Brown, 509th Logistics Readiness Squadron, received the Whiteman Spirit Award from Brig. Gen. Greg Biscone, 509th Bomb Wing commander, Aug. 27. Maj. Mark Lynch, 509th LRS commander, nominated Sergeant Brown for the award. "On July 25, Sergeant Brown responded to a house fire at 826

  • New shelters for 442nd FW constructed

    Shelters are being constructed for the 442nd Fighter Wing's A-10s between the A-10 maintenance hangers and the 509th Bomb Wing B-2 docks. The sun shelters are being built by EDL Contracting Company. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission mandates in 2006 sent nine A-10s and roughly 200 citizen

  • Leaders discuss total force

    Leaders and representatives from the 509th Bomb Wing, 131st Fighter Wing, National Guard Bureau and Air Combat Command met here Aug. 16 to discuss the Whiteman guard/active duty transition. This concluded the three-day Whiteman Total Force Integration Joint Site Activation Task Force meeting with

  • Whiteman Spirit Award

    Jim Howard, 509th Civil Engineer Squadron, received the Whiteman Spirit Award from Col. John Robinson, 509th Bomb Wing vice commander, Aug. 13. Senior Master Sgt. James Askren, Detachment 6, 372nd Training Squadron, nominated Mr. Howard for the award. During the first week of June, Detachment 6's

  • AFPC commander discusses future force

    The commander of the Air Force Personnel Center addressed the service's current reduction in force, recapitalization and modernization during a base community council meeting Aug. 2 at Mission's End. "Our three main objectives are to win this war, develop our Airmen and modernize our force," said

  • Whiteman Spirit Award

    Senior Airman David Leonard, 509th Maintenance Squadron, received the Whiteman Spirit Award from Brig. Gen. Greg Biscone, 509th Bomb Wing commander, July 30. Maj. Mary Teeter, 509th MXS commander, nominated Airman Leonard for the award. Airman Leonard responded to a critical situation that helped

  • Wing announces quarterly award winners

    The 509th Bomb Wing honored second quarter award winners during a breakfast at the Mission's End July 26. The winners are: Company Grade Officer Capt. Andrew Huckstadt, 509th Maintenance Operations Squadron, is the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter. The lead B-2 mechanical engineer was selected