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  • Stephen Boyd, left, a former member of the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron, and his father, David Boyd, enjoy a ride on their tandem recumbent bike through the streets of his hometown, Mayville, N.Y.

    In a race towards recovery

    In a year when the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron experienced a huge level of success earning numerous Air Force Space Command-level awards and defeating their competition in Guardian Challenge, it also suffered a devastating blow when one of their own was diagnosed with cancer. Senior Airman Stephen Boyd, a member of the 44-person periodic

  • Great Falls Naval vets recount their experiences at Pearl Harbor

    Thursday marks the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. Two Great Falls residents, retired Commander J.D. Hodapp, Jr. and retired Chief Petty Officer Tom Parr, are no strangers to the events of Dec. 7, 1941. Both men were stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attacks.
  • Senior Airman Nick Bluter, 741st Missile Security Forces Squadron, treats a patient's wounds at the simulated disaster site.

    Community, military train to aid in disaster

    Members of Team Malmstrom and the Great Falls community participated in a three day Community Emergency Response Team course Nov. 15 through 17. There were 26 individuals in training, 16 of which hail from Malmstrom. CERT training educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster
  • The newest award to be incorporated into the Quarterly Awards ceremony is the Spirit Award. The trophy, which is intended to be transformed by the winner each quarter, is shown in its infant stage. Winners are to add something relevant to their organization without destroying what is already attached before passing it on to the next quarterly winner.

    Spirit award aimed at unit cohesion, pride

    Malmstrom implemented a new award at the most recent quarterly awards ceremony Oct. 27 - the Spirit Award. The Spirit Award is a wooden trophy with a carving of a grizzly bear on the top. Winners are tasked with coming up with something to represent their unit to add to the award each quarter. Every three months, it will be re-awarded to the unit
  • Construction crews work to remove debris from demolished housing units on Washington Circle, behind Lincoln Drive. These units, along with half of thos e on Lincoln Drive, are slated for replacement during Phase A of the sixth stage of the housing replacement project here. The remaining units on Lincoln Drive will be destroyed and replaced during Phase B.

    Lincoln Drive to receive new look

    Housing construction on Malmstrom is everywhere you look and the latest area to be fenced off to prepare for new units is in the Lincoln Drive area. It also includes the long-time vacant units on Washington Circle that once housed the chief master sergeants stationed here. "There are 310 units being demolished in this phase of the project," said

  • Federal grant given to combat underage drinking in Cascade County

    Federal officials announced in August that five bases, including Malmstrom, and their surrounding host counties, would receive grant money to help address and combat underage drinking. In a ceremony Oct. 17, a representative from the Montana Board of Crime Control, Patti Jacques, made the presentation - $350,000 - to members of the Cascade County
  • MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. -- Chief Master Sgt. Robert Moore, 341st Space Wing command chief, takes a birthday dinner order from Airman Aylinta Hooper, 341st Missile Security Forces Squadron, at the Elkhorn dining facility Oct. 19. Chief Moore along with all of the first sergeants play host to enlisted Airmen having a birthday once a quarter.

    Ready to serve

  • Junior officers participate in Air Force Association Convention in D.C.; gain insight for future projects

    The Malmstrom Company Grade Officers' Association visited Washington D.C., Oct. 25 to 29, to attend the Air Force Association Convention. The visit, a five-day trip for professional development, served as a reward for the CGOA for being the 'Best in the West' in 2006. Ten company-grade officers and one field-grade officer took the trip. The group

  • 15 engineers ready to deploy Sunday

    A 15-member team from the 341st Civil Engineer Squadron is scheduled to deploy from Malmstrom to Ft. McCoy, Wisc., Sunday. The team will spend six weeks training in Wisconsin to hone necessary skills before deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom later this year. The team has spent the past weeks preparing for the deployment by
  • The 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron squeezes by the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron in the last games of the flag football championships Sept. 28. MOS took the championship after MMXS gave them a scare, winning the first game, 21 to 6. MOS came back in the second game by one point, winning 13 to 12.

    MOS takes flag football championship

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