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  • A child picks a slice of pizza before watching a movie during a Hearts Apart event at the Elks Theater in Rapid City, S.D., March 3, 2018. Each quarter, the Airman and Family Readiness Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., hosts an event like this, but the location and activity will vary. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nicolas Z. Erwin)

    Bringing families together with Hearts Apart

    Paying bills, picking up the children after school, managing household repairs and similar daily jobs can become mundane for a married couple. Their lives are intertwined as they face each day together.All of this changes with a deployment. A constant figure in the household is now not present; the support that was there fades. Luckily, the Airman

  • 28th SFS opens Little Defender’s Den

    The 28th Security Forces Squadron held a grand opening ceremony for their new family room, the Little Defender’s Den, inside the Base Defense Operations Center on Feb. 23. The family room serves as a place to bring children during base or squadron recalls, as well as a breastfeeding and pumping room. The room is open to Ellsworth Air Force Base Airmen and their families.
  • Tim Simmonds, an instructor with the 28th Security Forces Squadron, leads an active shooter brief inside the Installation Deployment Readiness Cell during an exercise at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Feb. 22, 2018. Ellsworth AFB conducted an active shooter exercise, testing Airmen in nearly 20 locations on their ability to respond to different situations in their buildings. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Randahl J. Jenson)

    Ellsworth conducts active shooter exercise

    Ellsworth Air Force Base conducted an active shooter exercise Feb. 22. The exercise inspected nearly 20 different locations on base, testing each individual’s ability to respond to an active shooter situation within their building. “We were evaluating the base’s ability to react to an active shooter situation by going into at least one building
  • Tech. Sgt. Abigail Philbrick, a Professional Military Education instructor assigned to the 28th Force Support Squadron, explains the difference of professional and unprofessional qualities in supervisors inside the Samuel O. Turner Airman Leadership School building at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Jan. 16, 2018. ALS is a month-long PME course devoted to building the foundation of supervisory skills necessary to be a noncommissioned officer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nicolas Z. Erwin)

    Continuing your (military) education

    "You don't become a champion on the field," said Chief Master Sgt. Kaleth O. Wright, the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, in response to a question about morale at the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., March 2, 2017. "You become a champion in practice."

  • Team Ellsworth wins MAJCOM’s Verne Orr manpower award

    Ellsworth Air Force Base won the Verne Orr award at the Air Force Global Strike Command level on Jan. 19, 2018, and is now competing at the Air Force level.
  • Col. John R. Edwards, the 28th Bomb Wing Commander, stands with other B-1 Bomber aircrew members from the 37th Bomb Squadron at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Ellsworth deployed Airmen from the 37th BS to help with the Continuous Bomber Presence operation that is being conducted by the Air Force Pacific Command. (Courtesy photo)

    28th Bomb Wing leadership visits Guam

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – Col. John R. Edwards, the 28th Bomb Wing Commander and Command Chief Master Sgt. Adam Vizi, recently visited the men and women of Ellsworth AFB deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam.
  • Mothers assigned to the 28th Security Forces Squadron, hold their children for a photo during a squadron event in the Base Defense Operations Center on Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., Oct. 27, 2017. Families of SFS personnel will soon be able to have access to the Little Defender’s Den, a family room that gives them the option of bringing their children with them during a recall or squadron events, as well as have a safe and comfortable place for mother’s to pump or breastfeed. (Courtesy photo)

    28th SFS Airmen develop new Little Defender’s Den family room

    Inside the small one-story Base Defense Operations Center, an Airman twists and turns her way down the maze of hallways, peering into offices to ensure no one is there.
  • Children tear open presents from Santa inside the Youth & Family Services Child Development Center in Rapid City, S.D., Dec. 19, 2017. This event has been hosted by the 28th Operations Group for 11 years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nicolas Z. Erwin)

    Santa flies with 28th OG giving gifts to families

    Santa Claus has been flying with the 28th Operations Group for the last 11 years delivering Christmas gifts to children enrolled in the Youth and Family Services Child Development Center in Rapid City, S.D.
  • A family picks a Christmas tree during Ellsworth’s ninth annual Trees for Troops event Dec. 2, 2016. This year was Thompson’s first time participating in the program, and says it was a wonderful feeling being able to have a Christmas tree. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Senior Airman Denise M. Jenson)

    Trees for Troops has Ellsworth “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree”

    Ellsworth Airmen and their families will receive an early holiday gift December 1st with a delivery of approximately 250 Christmas trees.
  • Nique High Hawk, a sophomore at Douglas High School in Box Elder, performed a healing dance for attendees. Nique is a competitive dancer and regularly performs for local pow wows. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Daniel Rosenfield)

    Air Force, Native American community learn together

    For the first time, the Ellsworth Air Force Base Diversity Council worked with Mniluzahan Okolakiciyapi Ambassadors, a local organization, to build bridges between the native and non-native communities of Rapid City.“We welcome [Airmen] to Rapid City and we want [them] to come in and enjoy what we have to offer here,” said Karen Mortimer, director
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