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Fast-Tracking Military Spouses

When military families get PCS orders, complexity, frustration and roadblocks can abound. And for many spouses, one of the most complicated items on their PCS to-do list doesn’t involve any kind of packing at all; it’s navigating how their professional licenses are recognized in their new state. This process can be wrought with waiting and dense with delays. South Dakota,…

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The SD Mines Students Racing to Help Secure America’s Skies

National Defense is always changing, but one of the most revolutionary innovations in the last few years has been the advent and rapid advancement of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones. These inexpensive and deceptively simple aircraft have altered warfare and rapidly changed much of the thinking…

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Aiming High

Ellsworth Air Force Base Command Chief Tia Mullins is a self-professed people person. “I wear my heart on my sleeve,” she said recently in a sit-down interview from her office at the 28th Bomb Wing Headquarters. But she arrived here – operating at the highest enlisted rank possible in the…

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A Monstrous Undertaking

It belongs in the Ellsworth Air Force Base history books. In anticipation of the arrival of the B-21 Bomber, Ellsworth Air Force Base has temporarily relocated 17 B-1B Lancers, supplies, equipment and close to 800 airmen to another state this year while the military rebuilds the base’s runway for the…

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