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Free | Friday, October 6, 2017 | NORTHERN SENTRY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017 1 FREEFREE | FRIDAY,FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 | WWW.WWW.NORTHERNSENTRYNORTHERNSENTRY.COM.COOMM | MINOTMMIINNOOT AIAAIRIR FOFFORCEORCRCE BBABASEASES | VOL.VOOLL. 55 • ISSUEISSUE 4400 U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | AIRMAN 1ST CLASS ALYSSA M. AKERS Continued on page 3 2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017 NORTHERN SENTRY what you are doing and An integrated force getting the job done.” TECH. SGT. JARAD A. DENTON | 5TH BOMB WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS That credibility extends to the Airmen of the 91st Missile Wing, who work INOT AIR Cotton said many of the together to ensure Minot FORCE advances and innovations remains a strong, deterrent BASE, N.D. -- gleaned from the now- force, Cotton said. The man deactivated program have “I can sleep well at M night knowing that the stopped in the narrow been applied to the LGM- hallway, his eyes turning 30G Minuteman III ICBM team at Minot is both a to rows of glossy portraits program and beyond. credible and an incredible hanging symmetrically on “I think some of the deterrent force,” the general the wall. technologies and processes said. “The Airmen here “He was my fi rst wing we saw, during the are striving and thriving commander,” the man said. Peacekeeper program, we to be on the forefront of It was 1986 when a will see again,” Cotton said. innovation.” With Airmen of the U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | AIRMAN 1ST CLASS ALYSSA M. AKERS young, U.S. Air Force 2nd “But, I think the next game Maj. Gen. Anthony Cotton, 20th Air Force commander, speaks during an Lt. Anthony Cotton fi rst laid changer is one I haven’t 91st Missile Wing leading interview at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Sept. 29, 2017. Cotton spoke with eyes on the main gate at seen yet – and that is the charge of innovation 91st Missile Wing Airmen and toured several facilities during his visit. and dynamic leadership, Minot Air Force Base, North GBSD.” important. The success of that isn’t just operations, Dakota; with the words, GBSD, or Ground Cotton said the future of the Air Force rests with the the Air Force is right there maintenance or security, but “only the best come north,” Based Strategic Deterrent, at that squadron level.” rather one that is interwoven proudly displayed for all to is an ICBM weapon empowerment of squadron commanders. As this reinvigoration and integrated. While GBSD see. system replacement for continues, Cotton said he will help drive that, I think “It all started right here,” the Minuteman III. With a “The squadron commanders can do expects to see more positive the path we are following Maj. Gen. Anthony Cotton, focus on developing and changes over the years with our leadership teams 20th Air Force commander, delivering an integrated something I can’t,” Cotton said. “They can reach out throughout the Air Force. is one that leads to the said, during a visit to Minot, weapons system, Cotton “I see a more integrated cohesion necessary to meet Sept. 29. “Coming to Minot said GBSD will employ and impact the lives of not just Airmen, but anyone who force,” he began. “One the challenges we will face as a brand new second a modular architecture – that isn’t stove piped. One in the future.” lieutenant in late October making the overall platform is a part of their lives. That’s of 1986, I wanted to do the more responsive to the needs best I could as a missile of combatant commanders, crewmember.” and the challenges of Cotton said the drive to technological change and do his best was something new threat environments. his father, a former Air “It is a modernization of Force chief master sergeant, the entire weapon system – emphasized heavily not just the missile itself,” throughout his life. said Cotton. “The command “My dad instilled the and control, the launch Core Values in me,” he said. control system itself, the “But, even more important, missile alert facilities, all of he told me to do the best you those will look diff erent – can at the job you are in.” and rightly so.” Setting goals kept the Cotton said while certain motivation to constantly components and subsystems improve strong, Cotton of the Minuteman III system said. Now, nearly 31 years have been upgraded over later, the general returned the years, the infrastructure to where his career began and much of the original to see the same passion for equipment has remained excellence on the faces of unchanged since 1970. Airmen at Minot. “I can go to India-01 “I use the words of my right now and it will look dad to mentor the Airmen exactly as it did when I I see here,” Cotton said. pulled alerts there from “Stand by the Core Values, 1986 to 1991, granted as a do your best and everything CDB crewmember without plays out pretty well.” the REACT console” Cotton As Airmen push forward said. “Not that it’s a bad to adapt to an ever-changing thing, but the brick and world, Cotton challenged mortar of the system is what them to incorporate it is. I think the greatest innovation into their daily change we are going to see lives and work toward in the nuclear enterprise will creating a modernized, more be GBSD.” lethal Air Force. As the Air Force “In the ICBM world, the transitions to GBSD, Cotton modernization has been said it is important for ongoing,” he said. “Even Airmen at all levels to fully though I was a Minuteman understand how their day- III guy, I was part of the to-day jobs contribute to generation that saw the overall mission success. deployment of the fi rst “It is a team sport,” he Peacekeeper. That was game said. “We have remarkable changing for us.” Airmen doing remarkable Speaking on the things here. Deterrence deployment of the LGM-118 is about credibility, and Peacekeeper intercontinental credibility is about knowing ballistic missile in 1986, NORTHERN SENTRY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2017 3 The uniform, the rank, CONTACTUS Tonya Stuart-Melland the badge – the attitude Sales Manager | Ad Designer TECH. SGT. JARAD A. DENTON | 5TH BOMB WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS [email protected] Beth Duchsherer MINOT AIR FORCE couple short months away, Ad Designer | Sales Representative BASE, N.D. -- Matthews made it a point [email protected] The colonel leaned back to visit, speak with and in his seat, pausing for just mentor Airmen at Minot Air MINOT AIR FORCE BASE a moment as he scanned his Force Base, North Dakota PUBLIC AFFAIRS memory. – his fi rst assignment after “Not really,” he said, completing training as a B-52 Chief of Public Affairs recounting if the U.S. Air Stratofortress navigator, Lt Col. Jamie Humphries Force had always been a goal. in 1989. Throughout his U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | SENIOR AIRMAN IAN DUDLEY/RELEASED Public Affairs Offi cer “It was kind of tradition in career, he said the success he An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches Lt. Danielle Lucero the family – to serve. It was experienced all came down to during an operational test at 2:10 a.m. Pacifi c Daylight Time Wednes- something the family did. one thing: attitude. day, Aug. 2, 2017, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. I fi gured I’d get in, do fi ve “’Wherever you go, there Staff Photojournalists years and then get out.” you are,’” Matthews said, Smiling, Col. Patrick borrowing the title of a book Boosting the brain Tech. Sgt. Jarad Denton Tech. Sgt. Evelyn Chavez Matthews shook his head by Jon Kabat-Zinn. “It’s TECH. SGT. JARAD A. DENTON as if trying to imagine the all about attitude. There’s 5TH BOMB WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS Senior Airman Apryl L. Hall journey from his home in opportunity wherever you go, Senior Airman Sahara Fales Texas to serving as the Eighth because you make it.” Senior Airman Justin Armstrong Air Force vice commander, Expanding on that, MINOT AIR FORCE STEP.” Airman 1st Class Jessica Weissman at Barksdale Air Force Base, Matthews explained how a BASE, N.D. -- During OLYMPIC Airman 1st Class Jonathan McElderry Louisiana. pre-conceived perception As part of move to further STEP, which refers to Airman 1st Class Alyssa Akers “One day you wake up and could ultimately defi ne an modernize the nuclear the annual ICBM code Airman 1st Class Dillon Audit it’s been 20 years,” he said. entire experience. enterprise, Airmen from change operation, Airman 1st Class Ashley Boster “Wake up again and it’s 30. It “If you walk into a the 91st Missile Wing, maintenance teams wasn’t really in the cards, but situation and you say, ‘this at Minot Air Force Base, using DTU’s observed I thought I’d give it a shot.” sucks,’ guess what?” he said, COMMANDERS With his retirement only a rhetorically. “It’s going to North Dakota, recently a signifi cant increase implemented a $68 in productivity. 5th Bomb Wing Commander: million upgrade to the “The legacy Col. Matthew R. Brooks LGM-30G Minuteman III LFLC’s take about 45 5th Bomb Wing Vice Commander: intercontinental ballistic minutes to produce Col. Sloan Hollis missile. of the Wing Codes 91st Missile Wing Commander: First used on June 23, Processing System, Col. Colin J. Connor this new device – known and about 30 minutes 91st Missile Wing Vice Commander: as the Data Transfer Unit, to load at a launch Col. Craig Ramsey was designed to replace the facility,” said Drumm. legacy Cartridge Tape Unit “The new DTU takes and Launch Facility Load less than 30 minutes NEWSSUBMISSIONS Cartridge systems.
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