• Every plane needs two wings to fly!

    Ensuring bullets and bombs are properly stored and transported is important to the U.S. Air Force’s mission.The Whiteman Air Force Base 509th Bomb Wing Weapons Safety Office makes sure the job gets done.“We deal with anything explosive, ranging from 9 mm rounds to your 5,000 lb bombs,” said U.S. Air

  • Exercise Agile Tiger: Integrated deterrence in the heartland of America

    Whiteman Air Force Base concluded the first iteration of Exercise Agile Tiger, designed to improve joint warfighter lethality through high fidelity mission planning, execution, and debrief.Exercise Agile Tiger enhanced participants’ ability to communicate, collaborate and operate together, ensuring

  • USSTRATCOM Commander visits WAFB

    U.S. Navy Adm. Charles Richard, U.S. Strategic Command commander, U.S. Air Force Col. Jeffrey Schreiner, 509th Bomb Wing commander, and U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Calhoun, 131st Bomb Wing commander, walk to Base Operations at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Oct. 14, 2020. The primary goal of