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  • Road Conditions: what you should know

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – During inclement weather, personnel and their families are required to follow speed limits according to the Road Condition classification, and all other traffic rules as posted. Road Condition classifications – known as green, yellow and red – adjust the speed limit

  • ‘Ruck March to Remember’ honors 1-year anniversary of fallen

    Dec. 21 marked one year since six Task Force Crimson members lost their lives in an improvised explosive device attack near Bagram Airfield. To honor their memory, 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron members and Expeditionary Detachment 2405, Air Force Office of Special Investigations

  • Ellsworth chapels provide holiday services

    The chaplains will be conducting services for both the Protestant and Catholic faith communities during the holiday season.The Protestant candlelight and communion service is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Freedom Chapel on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2016. There will be no Protestant service on

  • Striker families fly the virtual skies

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – The 28th Operations Support Squadron hosted B-1 bomber simulator tours for Airmen and their families during the holidays Dec. 19 through Dec. 21, 2016.The event provided an opportunity for attendees to experience what it is like to “fly” the BONE. “We’ve been doing

  • Holiday cookies foil crummy feelings

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – For five years, the Enlisted Spouses' Club and the Officer and Civilian Spouses' Club have hosted the annual Holiday Cookie Drive, collecting cookies for Airmen who are unable to go home for the holidays. Gathering donations from the local community and baking tasty

  • Honor them: Ellsworth hosts POW/MIA 24 hour run

    Ellsworth Airmen and their families gathered at the Pride Hangar for the base’s second annual 24-hour Prisoner of War/Missing in Action run Dec. 6 to 7.With the help of more than 280 volunteers from 12 different organizations across the base, 1st Lt. Amela Sanders, a deputy flight chief assigned to

  • O’ Christmas Tree: Trees for Troops sparks holiday magic at Ellsworth

    Ellsworth families received a special holiday delivery of 175 real Christmas trees from the Trees for Troops program, Dec. 2.The annual program, which is celebrating its 12th year this holiday, began when Christmas tree growers across America wanted to give back to members of the U.S. armed forces -

  • Tree lighting helps brighten holiday season

    The Freedom Chapel Christmas tree illuminates the night at Ellsworth Air Force Base S.D., Dec. 1, 2016. The lights were switched on by children of deployed Airmen during the 28th Bomb Wing tree lighting ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class James L. Miller)

  • Ellsworth congratulates 81 CCAF graduates

    Congratulations to the 2016 Fall Semester Community College of the Air Force graduates:A1C CHARLES, DANIEL B 28 Aircraft Maintenance Sq.A1C MCHARGUE, COLE N 28 Maintenance Sq.A1C NIGRA, DOMINICK J 28 Logistics Readiness Sq.A1C OWEN, JENNIFER M 28 Contracting Sq.A1C RUIZ, GABRIEL J 28

  • Despite winter weather, Airmen honor veteran

    Airmen from the Ellsworth Air Force Base Honor Guard conduct a burial ceremony for a veteran during a winter storm at the Black Hills National Cemetery in Sturgis, S.D., Nov. 29, 2016. The primary mission of the honor guard is to provide full military funeral honors to our veterans, retirees and