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Prairie Knight Exercise 10-1 at Minot Air Force Base
Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs
Via: http://www.legitgov.org/
2/9/2010 – MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — The 5th Bomb Wing launches a 48-hour exercise today to test the wing’s safe, secure, credible and reliable capabilities in preparation for an August conventional operational readiness inspection.
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Israel
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009.
The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more.
The PRCS also said that [...]
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US: Minot AFB
The men and women of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base became part of Air Force Global Strike Command Tuesday. The nuclear-capable assets the intercontinental ballistic missiles of Air Force Space Command now come under Global Strike Command as of Tuesday. Air Combat Command’s nuclear-capable assets bombers, which include the [...]
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Venezuela
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a warm reception Wednesday from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, wrapping up a three-nation visit to Latin America to shore up support against the United States. Ahmadinejad arrived Tuesday night on a flight from Bolivia, where he spent a few hours meeting with President Evo Morales. The Iranian leader met Monday [...]
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Minot AFB: Missile, bomb wings to become part of Global Strike Command
Minot Daily News | ELOISE OGDEN
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE Members of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base will make history Dec. 1 when they become part of a new command Air Force Global Strike Command. The new command will oversee all of the Air Force’s nuclear forces intercontinental ballistic missiles [...]
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Palestine
Palestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements and the United States does not stop it, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday. It may be time for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to “tell his people the truth, that with the continuation of settlement [...]
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Ousted Minot commander won’t retire
Michael Hoffman | AirForceTimes
Tuesday Oct 20, 2009
Col. Christopher Ayres, the former 91st Missile Wing commander at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., who was fired on Oct. 14, will accept an assignment to Air Force Space Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Col., and not retire.
Minot Air Force Base resident suffered “self-inflicted” gunshot wound
Man suffers gun shot wound at motel in Jamestown
By Sun Staff
A 21-year-old man was injured after he shot himself in the chest Monday morning, according to the Jamestown Police Department.
Police said the man, a resident of Minot Air Force Base, suffered a “self-inflicted” gun shot wound in the upper left chest in the room he [...]
Minot AFB: US Air Force sacks nuclear commander after blunders
Spacewar
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2009
The US Air Force said on Thursday the commander of a nuclear wing had been sacked after his unit failed a safety inspection, trucks carrying missile parts crashed and officers under him fell asleep with launch codes in hand.
Minot AFB prepares for biological and chemical attacks