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SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment at radio maintenance station No. 2 aboard an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

U.S. Air Force AIRMAN 1ST Class Mark Kimball (right), 341st Missile Security Forces Squadron, armed with 5.56 mm M4A1 rifle with a red dot sight, covered by a member of the 741st Missile Security Forces Squadron armed with a 5.56 mm M16A2 with a M203 40 mm grenade launcher attach, conducts a detailed search of a Minuteman III Launch Facility near Conrad, Mont., after recapturing it from a simulated terrorist cell during an exercise on Sept. 24, 2004. The 341st MSFS works in concert with the 741st MSFS to provide a combined response to any threats to the missiles of the 341st Space Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roger Dey, CIV) (Released)

U.S. Air Force AIRMAN 1ST Class Brashdon Miller (kneeling), a weapons loader, performs munitions check on an AGM-65"Maverick"air-to-surface guided missile while TECH. SGT. Brian Kerr, from the 355th Maintenance Group, evaluates him during the Load Crew of the Quarter competition at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on Jan. 10, 2005. (USAF PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Christina D. Kinsey) (Released)

Stinger missile away. With a lot of loud nose and exitement, the Marines of 2d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion show off their capabilities at this quarters FireEx held at Onslow Beach, North Carolina. The Avenger air defense weapon system is mounted on a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) Chassis. The gunner's seat is sandwiched between two Stinger missile pods, each holding four missiles, and an MP-3 .50 caliber machine gun sits on a turrent below the right pod

U.S. Air Force AIRMAN First Class Brian Gates, (right), and STAFF SGT. Paul Riley, 18th Maintenance Group aircraft armament systems specialists, prepare to load an AIM-7 missile on a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft during a Mutual Turn-around Familiarization training, in support of exercise Keen Sword 2005 at Hyakuri Japanese Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 16, 2004.(U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT. Val Gempis) (Released)

AIRMAN First Class Brian Green, a crew chief from Shaw Air Force Base, signals his pilot to bring the F-16 Fighting Falcon to a stop during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH enforces the United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 that establishes a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq below the 32nd parallel. Note: The outer two missiles are AIM-120 AMRAAMs, the third missle in is the AGM-88 HARM designed to seek and destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Mike Kessler breaks from cover and moves up to support fellow members of the 341st Security Forces Group (SFG), Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB), Montana (MT), as they train to recapture a missile launch facility at Malmstrom AFB. The 341st SFG is responsible for protecting and securing the Minuteman III missile facilities of the 341st Space Wing (SW) located throughout central Montana (MT). For the exercise A1C Kessler and his team are wearing Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) and armed with KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4s

U.S. Air Force AIRMAN 1ST Class Joshua Hartviggen (left) and AIRMAN 1ST Class Joseph Fleming, both weapons load crew members from the 35th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, inspect an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) during a pre-flight check on an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during exercise Keen Sword 05 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, on Nov. 17, 2004. To the left is an AIM-9M Sidewinder heat-seeking air-to-air missile. (USAF PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Cherie A. Thurlby) (Released)

US Air Force (USAF), and Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Phillip Wells, Crew CHIEF, 93rd Fighter Squadron, signals to the pilot of a USAF F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, before launching a mission in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. A GBU-12 500-pound laser guided bomb, an AIM-9N/P Sidewinder Missile and a AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-air Missile are mounted on the wing pylon of the aircraft

In the morning around 0800 at the Launch Facility, security policeman SENIOR AIRMAN Blake Wingate of 341 OSS holds open Launch Facility K-11's gate and allows a transporter/erector vehicle from the 341 Missile Maintenance Squadron to come onto the site. Today the truck will be removing the 341 Missile Wing's last Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile from its launcher, marking the end of thirty years of Minuteman II's in the Air Force inventory and the completion of President Bush's 1991 "Stand Down" order which removed all Minuteman II missiles from alert

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Base: Malstrom Air Force Base

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Scene Camera Operator: Sr. AMN. John A. Turner, Jr.

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SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment in the battle staff compartment of an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Passing rain clouds, during sunrise, frame a C-5B Galaxy that is parked on one of Malmstrom Air Force Base's taxiways. The C-5 was used to transport personnel and equipment for the Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI), which tests a unit's ability to operate in a simulated wartime environment

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Missile Maintenance Technicians from the 90th MXS/LSS stand at the opening of Minuteman III Silo, Alpha-7. Pictured are: SENIOR AIRMAN Eric Laboarde (on diveboard), STAFF SGT. Jason Bruns & STAFF SGT. Monte Reeder (in work cage)

At 7:59 am PDT the second of two unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is successfully launched

A Minuteman III missile takes off from Launch Facility 26

As a surrendering "enemy" is captured at Lemieux Army Training Range, SENIOR AIRMAN William Englebert (foreground) and another security policeman from the 564th Missile Squadron sit behind the brush to stay out of view and ready to return fire with their M-16 rifles in case the surrender is an enemy trick

Airman 1st Class Heath Rauch, 91st Missile Maintenance

Artwork: "Minuteman ICBM Being Loaded Into a C-141, Vandenberg AFB"Artist: Winston Taylor

[Hurricane Katrina] Pass Christian, Miss., September 20, 2005 -- Hundreds of school busses along Mississippi's Gulf Coast were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Mark Wingate/USACE

A reconfigured Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 8:39 p.m. 23 June 1997. The missile, part of the Multi-Service Launch System developed by Lockheed-Martin Astronautics, deployed a payload of nine target objects in space to test sensors carried aloft by a second Minuteman II that was launched from the Kwajalein Missile Range in the south Pacific Ocean approximately 20 minutes later. It carried sensors using existing National Missile Defense technology to identify and track the nine target objects released by the Vandenberg missile. A side effect from the launch resulted in what is termed as a "twilight phenomenon," a multicolored light...

After the door was successfully removed from its hinges, allowing the Security Police inside the bay, they rush to the side of the only living "victim", SENIOR AIRMAN John Whitman from the 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron (MXS). The Inspector General Team tested the ability of the base to respond to battle conditions, power outages, mobility deployments, aircraft and automobile accidents, hostage situations, bomb threats, armed robberies, terrorism, and communication problems

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