More than 480 airmen from Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, and the Air Force Reserve component are gathered in northwest Louisiana this week.
Air Force Global Strike Command says an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile had to be destroyed -- minutes after it blasted out of an underground silo on the California coast on a test flight.
The United States Air Force has announced plans to transfer the munitions squadrons responsible for nuclear mission support from Air Force Materiel Command to Air Force Global Strike Command over the next twelve months.