Submitted Photo Airmen assigned to the 5th Security Forces Squadron at Minot Air Force Base watch a B-52H Stratofortress take off as part of Exercise Global Thunder 26 at Minot AFB, Oct. 26. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Trust Tate.

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Global Thunder 26 (GT26), the latest iteration of U.S. Strategic Command’s annual field training and command and control exercise, concluded Oct. 26 here.

While Exercise GT26 occurred at multiple locations, Minot Air Force Base supported activities among two bomb wings and a missile wing accounting for two-thirds of the U.S. nuclear triad.

Airmen and B-52H Stratofortress bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, traveled to Minot AFB and worked alongside the 5th Bomb Wing to test their readiness. Meanwhile, memb

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