Strategic_missiles 90th_Missile_Wing

wing missile alert facilities

the wing again organized in july 1963 @ francis e. warren air force base, wyoming 90th strategic missile wing. lgm-30b minuteman missiles of wing replace sm-65 atlas missiles of inactivating 389th strategic missile wing. replacement minutemen more displaced , hardened atlases replaced.

initially, wing supervised missile facility construction until july 1964, individual squadrons activating between october 1963 , july 1964 missile launch facilities became operational. wing equipped 200 lgm-30b minuteman i, equipped single reentry vehicle. beginning in june 1973, minuteman missiles began replaced lgm-30g minuteman iiis, carry 3 reentry vehicles, 400th strategic missile squadron becoming first minuteman iii squadron in wing. changeout completed october 1974. however, in 2001 , in compliance strategic arms reduction treaty, these missiles limited single reentry vehicle

the wing supervised lgm-118 peacekeeper personnel training , facility preparation beginning jun 1985. peacekeeper, carry ten independently targeted reentry vehicles, operational wing s 400th strategic missile squadron on 30 december 1986. peacekeeper system continued in operation in addition wing s minuteman missiles until september 2005, when retired , 400th squadron inactivated.

although remained component of twentieth air force, starting in 1992, wing saw series of changes in major command art of. when sac inactivated on 1 june 1992, wing, along other combat missile units, became part of air combat command. on 1 july 1993, after being redesignated 90th space wing, , idea take advantage of similarities between missile , other space missions, wing became part of air force space command. on 1 december 2009, wing , other missile wings reunited global bomber force under air force global strike command.