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Rigorous Minuteman III testing part of Minot Air Force Base missile force Eloise Ogden, Minot (N.D.) Daily News via the AP 2 hours ago 2nd Lt. William Young, 741st Missile Squadron missile combat crew commander, 1st Lt. Darian Titus, 741st Missile Squadron deputy missile combat crew commander and Capt. James Kelley, 576th Flight Test Squadron ICBM test operator, participate in a Simulated Electronic Launch Minuteman exercise on April 7, 2021, at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. (Senior Airman Josh W. Strickland/Air Force) MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Members of the 576th Flight Test Squa...

Rigorous testing part of Minot Air Force Base missile force ELOISE OGDEN, Minot Daily News April 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) — Members of the 576th Flight Test Squadron continuously test the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system to make sure it does what it’s supposed to do. “We perform a fundamentally unique mission. We do a full on full, end to end testing of the Minuteman III weapon system,” said Capt. Kirsten McKenzie, an ICBM test operator with the 576th at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. McKenzie, Capt. Cole Evans, also...

eogden@minotdailynews.com From the left, Capt. Cole Evans, Master Sgt. Matthew Ricker and Capt. Kirsten McKenzie, all with the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, give a presentation about the squadron and its mission to members of the Minot Area Chamber EDC’s Military Affairs Committee at the Grand Hotel in Minot on April 1. Minot AFB photo by George F. Gutierrez. MINOT AIR FORCE BASE -Members of the 576th Flight Test Squadron continuously test the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system to make sure it does what it’s supposed to do. �...

Nowadays, when you watch a moving about doomsday, there's talk of taking out huge metropolitan areas like New York or Chicago. When I was growing up in Kennebec, we knew better, we knew were pretty close to being first in line.

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