• Global Strike Challenge accepted

    More than 80 Airmen from the 509th Bomb Wing and Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing here recently defended their Global Strike Challenge title in this year's competition.The total force team won the coveted Fairchild Trophy during the last competition, held in 2012, and have won the top

  • AF to change instructions for oaths

    The Air Force has instructed force support offices across the service to allow both enlisted members and officers to omit the words "So help me God" from enlistment and officer appointment oaths if an Airman chooses.In response to concerns raised by Airmen, the Department of the Air Force requested

  • First All-Guard B-2 Maintenance Team Supports Weapons School Ops

    In a year marked with a number of milestones and firsts for the 131st Bomb Wing, a team from the 131st Maintenance Group recently added another by being the first all-Air National Guard B-2 maintenance team to support deployed operations for the jet.Twenty B-2 aircraft maintenance Citizen Airmen

  • Air Force celebrates 25th anniversary of first B-2 flight

    Team Whiteman and Air Force Global Strike Command are celebrating a milestone in Air Force and aviation history this week by marking the 25th anniversary of the B-2 Spirit's first flight.On July 17, 1989, Bruce Hinds, Northrop Grumman chief test pilot, and Col. Richard Couch, B-2 combined test force

  • Missouri Citizen Airmen support earthquake disaster response exercise

    Missouri National Guardsmen, alongside local, state and federal partner agencies, recently tested their ability to respond to a major earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone.The exercise was designed to test the Guard's operational readiness across the state in the event of a major earthquake

  • Sheskey assumes command of the 131st Force Support Squadron

    Lt Col. Catherine Sheskey, 131st Force Support Squadron commander, Missouri Air National Guard, accepts the 131st Bomb Wing guidon from Col. Mark Beck, 131st Bomb Wing Mission Support Group commander, during her assumption of command ceremony at Whiteman AFB, June 18, 2014. The guidon is a tradition

  • Silver eagles for Sterr

    During a ceremony held at Whiteman AFB, Col. Kimbra Sterr's new silver eagles are pinned on by her spouse, Lt. Col Chad Sterr, and 131st Bomb Wing Missouri Air National Guard wing commander, Col. Mike Francis. Sterr is the 131st Maintenance Group commander.