Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 11.14.2024
A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team played an important behind-the-scenes role in Air Force Global Strike Command’s recent operational test to showcase readiness of U.S. nuclear forces as safe, secure, reliable and effective....
Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 08.24.2021
A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team played an important behind-the-scenes role in supporting the Air Force’s Glory Trip-239, Aug. 11....
Story by Ronald Bailey | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 02.26.2021
In early 2020, as COVID-19 spread rapidly across the globe, no cases had yet been reported in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. To protect the islands, the Marshallese government suspended all incoming international travel, Feb. 26, 2020, which affected U.S. personnel coming to work on the U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald......
Story by Staff Sgt. Zach Sheely | 100th Missile Defense Brigade (GMD) | 11.19.2020
In 2020 style, a small formation of socially distanced and masked Soldiers gathered to celebrate the halcyon days of 2019 as the 100th Missile Defense Brigade was presented with the U.S. Strategic Command Omaha Trophy for Global Operations at Peterson Air Force Base Nov. 19. This is the first time an Army unit and the first time an Army National Guard unit has been selected for this......
Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 10.29.2020
An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during Air Force Global Strike Command’s Glory Trip-236 operational test Oct. 29 and impacted in a pre-established target zone roughly 4,200 miles away, near the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, or RTS, on Kwajalein......
Story by Cecil Longino | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 04.16.2020
To the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command personnel who run the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the South Pacific, the March 19 successful test of the Army and Navy jointly developed hypersonic glide body is the most recent test supported by RTS....
Story by Airman 1st Class Jessica Montano | Minot Air Force Base | 11.15.2016
Team Minot Airmen gathered to celebrate the 68th birthday anniversary of the 91st Missile Wing, Nov. 9, 2016.
Story by Airman Collin Schmidt | 341st Missile Wing | 04.06.2016
The Navy’s E-6B Mercury Airborne Launch Control System aircraft, while menacing in stature, serves its mission strictly as America’s absolute last line of defense in the face of nuclear war and as a nuclear deterrence and communication platform....
