They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
How Military.com Investigated Cancer Cases and Concerns Within the Missileer Community When many former missileers started to worry that they may have been exposed to cancer-causing toxins at missile alert...
Montana Nuclear Base Lockdown Lifted After Suspicious Person Prompts Active Shooter Report No shots were fired and nobody was injured at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, the base said as it lifted the...
Inside the Delicate Art of Maintaining America's Aging Nuclear Weapons The U.S. will spend more than $750 billion over the next decade to overhaul nearly every part of its nuclear defenses and...
Carcinogen Test Results at 2 More Nuclear Missile Bases Expected in 2 Months The Air Force began a study focusing on Malmstrom and expanded it in February to include a wide assortment of jobs at the...
Carcinogens Found at Montana Nuclear Missile Sites as Reports of Hundreds of Cancers Surface The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control centers at a Montana nuclear...
Air Force Expands Investigation into Possible Cancer Link to Missile Bases and Jobs The news comes about a month after a senior officer circulated a briefing about a possible link between service and cancer...
Malmstrom Squadron Commander Fired Over Unhealthy Command Climate A security forces commander at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, has been relieved from his post.
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds A look at 1.5 million emergency room visits in the military health system shows that, in addition to racial bias, disparities...
Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
'He Was Great Before He Came to Us': Air Force Leaders Speak at Funeral of Florida Airman Killed by Police The military connection and the attendance and participation by Air Force officials made the service for Roger Fortson an...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...