Warren AFB “for longer than an hour.” Five different Launch Control Centers lost all contact with the ten missiles they each control. – An Air Force study obtained by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 found that court-martial rates in the Minuteman missile fields in 2011 and 2012 were more than twice as high as in the overall Air Force. By June 2015, there were four active courts-martial underway at Minot Air Force Base for drug use, rape, assault, sexual assault on an unconscious person, and larceny. – In 2013, seventeen missile launch crew members were fired from Minot AFB along with Lt. Col Randy Olson, after the finding of a long list of safety potential security code violations and protection errors. – In 2014, two Malmstorm AFB missile launch crew administrators were accused of running a narcotics distribution system involving missile launch crews across six air bases.

Source: New York Times November 08, 2024 06:54 UTC