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...
Air Force Commander of Nuclear Missile Maintenance at Malmstrom Fired After Investigation Col. Jeremy Russell, the commander of Malmstrom's 341st Maintenance Group, was removed from his role "due to a loss of trust...
Air Force Still Not Seeing Higher Cancer Rates Among Missileers as More Data Is Collected Current and former airmen who worked with America's nuclear missiles are not at higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer...
New Air Force Findings Show Risky Chemicals at Nuclear Missile Bases, Though at Levels Deemed Safe Volatile organic compounds were detected in launch control centers, the underground bunkers where missileers monitor the...
New Research Finds Blood Cancer Cases at Malmstrom Air Force Base Likely Not 'Due to Chance' The grassroots group Torchlight Initiative said the results show that non-Hodgkin lymphoma is occurring at higher rates and...
Airman Killed and Multiple Injured in Humvee Crash in Montana, Marking Latest Incident at Nuclear Missile Bases An airman was killed and five others injured after a Humvee mishap at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, marking the latest...
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...
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...
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...
Trump Orders 1,500 Active-Duty Troops to Border Ahead of Pentagon Security Plan Deadline It was not immediately clear what units and service branches would be tapped for the deployment, but the announcement comes...
Trailblazing Coast Guard Commandant Fired by Trump Administration Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to serve in the Coast Guard's top job, was relieved following the swearing-in ceremony for...
Air Force Officer Who Advocated for Women in Leadership Roles Removed from Command Col. Julie Sposito-Salceies was relieved from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam unit by Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of...
Air Force Groups that Advocated for Beard Policies, Better Body Armor Are Gutted by Trump Directive Air Force and Space Force groups that helped create policy and improve the quality of life for women, minorities and LGBTQ+...
Trump Administration Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Staff Be Put on Leave President Donald Trump's administration has moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all...