U.S. Central Command confirmed B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing recently arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. National news sources reported the bombers were deployed to the Middle East to deter Iran. On Friday, in a ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – A Pentagon official met with Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND, and other local leaders for a tour of Minot Air Force Base on Thursday, to discuss a re-evaluation of the construction plans for the transition to the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system. ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Global Thunder 25, the most recent iteration of U.S. Strategic Command’s annual field training and command and control exercise, commenced at Minot Air Force Base on Oct. 15. Global Thunder exercises are annual Department of Defense training opportunities designed ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – A Minot Air Force Base airman was found dead off base, according to base officials. In a statement released by the base, Airman 1st Class Aniyah P. Bess, assigned to the 5th Medical Group, was found deceased in the evening on Oct. 23. “We mourn the loss of one of ...

Editor’s Note: Lt. Gen. Michael Lutton, deputy commander of U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, is a former commander of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base. He was commander of the missile wing from June 2014-2016. Minot AFB and other missile bases will receive the new helicopter ...

A North Dakota man who was killed during World War II and accounted for on Sept. 29, 2020, will be buried on Friday, Oct. 25, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Navy Fireman ...