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USSTRATCOM Commander Announces 131st and 509th Bomb Wings among 2018 Omaha Trophy Winners

In recognition of outstanding support to U.S. Strategic Command’s (USSTRATCOM) strategic deterrence mission, U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of USSTRATCOM, announced the winners of the 2018 Omaha Trophies June 3, 2019. The 509th and 131st Bomb Wings have again won the Omaha Trophy for Best Strategic Bomber Wing, second year in a row and third time overall. (File photo)

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Missouri Guardsmen learn story of Rosie the Riveter

Missouri National Guard Airmen, Soldiers, and their guests gathered May 4 to experience a unique piece of living history as a Leah Winchester, shared the vision of servant leadership of her grandmother, Naomi Parker. Naomi Parker was the inspiration for the famed Rosie the Riveter.

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Missouri Guardsmen learn story of Rosie the Riveter

Missouri National Guard Airmen, Soldiers, and their guests gathered May 4 to experience a unique piece of living history as a Leah Winchester, shared the vision of servant leadership of her grandmother, Naomi Parker. Naomi Parker was the inspiration for the famed Rosie the Riveter..

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Missouri Guardsmen learn story of Rosie the Riveter

131st Bomb Wing commander Col. Ken Eaves and wing command Chief Master Sgt. Jessica Settle present Ms. Leah Winchester, grand daughter of Naomi Parker, a framed J-Bee. The J-Bee was drawn in 1943 by famed cartoonist Walt Disney as the official insignia of Jefferson Barracks.

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Leadership to emulate; lessons from Maj. Gen. Henderson

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles "Ron" Henderson.

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The Culture We Need

Whether on or off the job, we need to make time in our organizations to directly interact and converse with our fellow Airmen, our brothers and sisters in arms…each and every one of them. Bottom photo l to r: Tech. Sgt. Mitchell Delouche, Tech. Sgt. Brandon Keith, Senior Airman Zachary Rogers, Senior Airman Kristina Wright, Air 1st Class Tyler Vaught. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Tech Sgt. Colton Elliott)

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Kohl takes command of the 131st Medical Group

Lt. Col Russell Kohl receives the Medical Group guidon from Col Ken Eaves, 131st Bomb Wing Commander, during the change of command ceremony at Whiteman Air Force Base, Dec. 2. Kohl assumes command from Col. Patti Fries, who continues her military service as the commander of the Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Medical Group, a subordinate unit of the 155th Air Refueling Wing, at Lincoln Air National Guard Base. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Geldermann)

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’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force

Lt. Cols. John and Jennifer Avery’s Air Force and Air National Guard military careers culminated at their joint retirement ceremony at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel)

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’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force

Lt. Col. Jennifer Avery was the first female to the fly the B-2 Spirit. She is the first and only female to fly stealth bomber in combat, and was also the first female to fly the B-1 in combat. (Courtesy photo)

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’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force

Lt. Cols. John and Jennifer Avery were the first husband-wife team to fly the B-2. The couple served with the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base and then with the Missouri National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing. Their joint retirement ceremony was Sept. 7, 2018, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. (Courtesy photo)

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’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force

Wedding photo of John and Jennifer Avery, the first husband and wife to fly the B-2 Stealth bomber. (Courtesy photo)

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Whiteman honors Missouri ANG unit, ‘Lindbergh’s Own’

Members of the Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing and the U.S. Air Force’s 509th Bomb Wing unveil a new paint scheme with the slogan “Lindbergh’s Own” on a gear door for the Spirit of Nebraska, a B-2 bomber, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Aug. 4, 2018. The slogan is associated with the 110th Bomb Squadron, a subordinate unit of the 131st BW, and is tied to the late Charles A. Lindbergh, the unit’s most famous member. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mary Dale Amison)

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Whiteman honors Missouri ANG unit, ‘Lindbergh’s Own’

Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh performs maintenance on the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh flew the aircraft in a transatlantic flight from in 1927, completing the first nonstop flight between New York to Paris. Lindbergh’s military service included being a member of the Missouri National Guard’s 110th Observation Squadron, which today is the 110th Bomb Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and is known as “Lindbergh’s Own.” (131st Bomb Wing archive photo)

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Whiteman honors Missouri ANG unit, ‘Lindbergh’s Own’

The dedicated pilots and aircraft crew chiefs for the Spirit of Nebraska, a B-2 bomber, gather after a new paint scheme with the slogan “Lindbergh’s Own” on a gear door was unveiled at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Aug. 4, 2018. The slogan is associated with the 110th Bomb Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Whiteman based 131st Bomb Wing, and commemorates the late Charles A. Lindbergh, the unit’s most famous member.

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Whiteman honors Missouri ANG unit, ‘Lindbergh’s Own’

Lt. Col. Timothy Rezac, commander of the 110th Bomb Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing, addresses the audience prior to the unveiling of a new paint scheme with the slogan “Lindbergh’s Own” on a gear door for the Spirit of Nebraska, a B-2 bomber, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Aug. 4, 2018. The slogan commemorates the late Charles A. Lindbergh, the unit’s most famous member. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mary Dale Amison)

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Col. Ken Eaves

Col. Ken Eaves is the wing commander for the Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing.

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Missouri Air Guardsman, WWII combat aviator remembered

Four T-38 jets from Whiteman Air Force Base perform a missing man formation over Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on April 30, 2018 in honor of World War II combat aviator and former 131st Tactical Fighter Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Harding Zumwalt. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mary-Dale Amison)

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Missouri Air Guardsman, WWII combat aviator remembered

Staff Sgt. Jacquelyn Eye, a member of the Missouri Air National Guard Funeral Honors team, performs Taps for a ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, April 30, 2018, in honor of World War II combat aviator and former 131st Tactical Fighter Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Harding Zumwalt. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mary-Dale Amison)

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Missouri Air Guardsman, WWII combat aviator remembered

Col. Ken Eaves, 131st Bomb Wing commander, presents Jeffrey Zumwalt a tribute flag in honor of Zumwalt’s father, Brig. Gen. Harding Zumwalt, during a ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, April 30, 2018. Family, friends and Missouri Air National Guard family met to celebrate the life of the World War II combat aviator and former 131st Tactical Fighter Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Harding Zumwalt, who passed away in January at age 97. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mary-Dale Amison)

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Missouri Air Guardsman, WWII combat aviator remembered

Harding Zumwalt (back center) performs with the Thunderbolt Dance Band in 1943. (Courtesy Zumwalt family archives)

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