Feb. 24, 2017 Missouri Air Guardsmen among chosen for Glory Trip 221 Minuteman III missile launch A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen from the 131st and 509th Bomb Wings were among a group invited to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California to view a launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, Feb. 7.
Feb. 6, 2017 Weapons school officers employ total force training during Libya B-2 strike Two B-2 Spirit bombers departed Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, for a transatlantic flight to Libya Jan. 18 in what would become the B-2’s first combat mission since Operation Odyssey Dawn in 2011.