Col joel westa biography
- Colonel Westa previously served as vice commander of the 36th Wing, Andersen.
- DescriptionJoelWesta.jpg, United States Air Force (USAF) Colonel Joel Westa, commander of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base.
- MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Col. Joel Westa (left), 5th Bomb Wing commander, pins an Air Force Combat Action Medal on Lt. Col. Jimmy Sterling, 5th Medical.
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Photos: Air Force base on Guam named after Racine World War II veteran
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Brig. Gen. Doug Owens, 36th Wing commander, and Col. Joel Westa, 36th Wing vice commander, stand at attention as airmen from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam perform the flag folding ceremony during a plaque rededication ceremony held at the 36th Wing Headquarters Building in 2007. The base held the rededication ceremony to unveil the original plaque that named Andersen after its namesake, Brig. Gen. James Roy Andersen, a Racine native.
Senior Airman Sonya Padilla / U.S. Air ForceBrig. Gen. James Roy Andersen.
U.S. Air ForceA U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit conduct a flyover at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Aug.17, 2016. It marked the first time in history that all three of the Air Force Global Strike Command's strategic bomber aircraft were simultaneously conducting operations in the U.S. Pacific Command area of operations. The B-1 Lancer will replace the B-52 in support of the U.S. Pacific Command Continuous Bomber Presence mission.
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2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
Accidental loading of warheads onto an aircraft
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACMcruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1variable yieldnuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52Hheavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before the missiles were taken from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing and remained mounted to the aircraft at both Minot and Barksdale for 36 hours. During this period, the warheads were not protected by the various mandatory security precautions for nuclear weapons.[1][2]
The incident was reported to the top levels of the United States military and referred to by observers as a Bent Spear incident, which indicates a nuclear weapon incident below the more severe Broken Arrow tier.
In response to the incident, the United States Department of Defense (DoD)
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