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Rebekah
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8/28/2008 5:17 PM

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Air Force investigates missing launch devices
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By JAMES MacPHERSON – 2 hours ago

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Air Force announced Thursday that two officers who worked at a missile base in North Dakota have been taken off the job while the military investigates allegations that they took home classified components used in underground launch control centers.

The officers were supposed to have destroyed the two devices and had signed documents stating that they had, said Maj. Laurie A. Arellano, an Air Force spokeswoman. The Band-Aid-sized devices, now obsolete, were used on equipment inside the launch control center to detect equipment tampering.

"The material that was supposed to be destroyed was already superseded and had been replaced," she said. "There is no risk to the security of the weapon system, and no possibility of an inadvertent launch as a result of this being taken from the weapon facility."

The officers worked at the time at Minot Air Force Base's 91st Space Wing, now known as the 91st Missile Wing. They were among the crew members who work 90 feet underground behind huge blast doors, prepared to launch nuclear missiles.

The Air Force said one of the officers notified the military in May that he and the other officer had lied about destroying the components in July 2005. He turned one device over to the government but the other remains missing, Arellano said. She had no information on why the officers took the devices.

The officers, whose names have not been released, no longer are stationed at Minot. "They are not, obviously, working missile alert duties until the investigation is complete," Arellano said.

In a separate case, the Air Force said it is investigating alleged "aggravated sexual contact" against a woman officer at a launch facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. The officer told Air Force investigators in March that she had been sexually assaulted by a male officer in December while the two were on duty in a launch control facility.

"The male has been temporarily reassigned while it's being investigated," Arellano said.

The Air Force also announced Thursday that three ballistic missile crew members from the Minot Air Force Base who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices have been sanctioned and "decertified from missile operations."

The crew members, two lieutenants and a captain from the 91st Missile Wing, were in a missile alert facility about 70 miles from Minot when they fell asleep in a crew rest area on July 12, the Air Force said.

Arellano said the officers received written reprimands and will forfeit a portion of their pay for two months under Article 15 reviews, which allow punishments without a court proceeding or public record. Six other officers, including two squadron commanders, also received disciplinary letters in their military files, Arellano said.

Another unit based at Minot, the 5th Bomb Wing, has been under scrutiny for the past year after nuclear missiles were mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. About 65 of the 3,700 airmen at the bomber wing were sanctioned as a result of that incident. The Air Force said an inspection at the bomb wing earlier this month found that it is operating safely.

The Minot base, home to about 4,530 active duty military personnel, is the command center for 150 Minuteman III missiles, sunk in hardened silos, and is one of two B-52 bomber bases in the country.

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antwan
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8/28/2008 5:20 PM

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did someone say jericho scenario soon ?

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8/28/2008 5:23 PM

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How many airman wound up dead from that B52 incident? Just one after another if I remember correctly?

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 488607

Sweden
8/28/2008 5:24 PM

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Gosh, wat a surprise, Minot AF again!!! Just like last august: [link to www.globalresearch.ca] it is almost on the same date that they try to steal some nuclear weapons there! Must be Cheney playing fascist warcriminal again - as always! Unbelievable that nobody linked this to last years 'broken arrow'! I guess we are still living under the great likelihood of a nuclear attack soon!

Rebekah
User ID: 482675

United States
8/28/2008 5:25 PM

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The Air Force also announced Thursday that three ballistic missile crew members from the Minot Air Force Base who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices have been sanctioned and "decertified from missile operations."

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Another unit based at Minot, the 5th Bomb Wing, has been under scrutiny for the past year after nuclear missiles were mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. About 65 of the 3,700 airmen at the bomber wing were sanctioned as a result of that incident. The Air Force said an inspection at the bomb wing earlier this month found that it is operating safely.

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where do they find these people?

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Anonymous Coward
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Canada
8/28/2008 5:29 PM

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hmm.. good one "how do you launch a missile you don't have a key to.?" Simple replace the launch device with one you do have a key to..

PreConditioning
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United States
8/28/2008 5:30 PM

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did someone say jericho scenario soon ?

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Rebekah
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United States
8/28/2008 5:35 PM

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Jericho... i have every episode in high definition 5.1 surround sound. i refuse to spend the next 2 or 3 weeks uploading them for your viewing pleasure... “Prepare your proof before you argue” - Jewish Proverb okay, this is me [link to profiles.yahoo.com]

Anonymous Coward
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Sweden
8/29/2008 3:58 AM

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Quoting: Rebekah

those are the cover-up stories! The facts are much worse!
Don't believe those cover-ups, cuz they just don;t wnat you to know how Cheney trinukes available to buke Iran and make a false flag attack in the USA, how they murdered all the patriots who sabotaged that action (august 2007) and - last but not least - how still one of those 6 nukes is missing!!!

As I said, read the article:
[link to www.globalresearch.ca]

-=LaZe=-
User ID: 314849

Australia
8/29/2008 4:02 AM

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Jericho... i have every episode in high definition 5.1 surround sound. i refuse to spend the next 2 or 3 weeks uploading them for your viewing pleasure... Quoting: Rebekah damn lol. I can get them all if I want to lol. It's time for us to fight back against these socialist scumbags fighting_weapon@hotmail.com

-=LaZe=-
User ID: 314849

Australia
8/29/2008 4:04 AM

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oh now let me guess the new intel will say something like Iran has aquired the nuke...... That would aid my theory of factions in the govt and narrow down the list to the elite. It's time for us to fight back against these socialist scumbags fighting_weapon@hotmail.com

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