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April 20, 2020
131st pilot boasts 1,000 flight hours in stealth bomber

131st Bomb Wing B-2 Spirit pilot surpasses 1000 flight hours, one of only 71 Airmen to do so.
Sept. 14, 2018
’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force

Lt. Col. John Avery and Lt. Col. Jennifer Avery were the first husband-wife pilot team to fly the B-2. Their two, 20-year-long careers culminated with the couple’s joint retirement ceremony on Sept. 7, 2018, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
April 27, 2018
131st, 509th Total Force logistics team named best in the Air Force

Airmen of the 509th and 131st Logistics Readiness Squadrons were recently awarded the Maj. Gen. Warren R. Carter Logistics Readiness Award, recognizing them jointly as the best Air Force logistics readiness squadron for 2017.
Aug. 17, 2017
Missouri Air Guardsmen reach out to foster youth through Op BRACE

In the State of Missouri there are nearly 13,000 kids who have been taken away from their families and displaced within the foster care system. Each year about 400 kids age out of the system, and more than half will end up homeless or incarcerated. The Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing
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.

131st pilot boasts 1,000 flight hours in stealth bomber