{"id":48487,"date":"2014-05-23T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48487"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:31:03","slug":"new-details-about-the-341st-missile-wings-failed-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48487","title":{"rendered":"New Details About the 341st Missile Wing&#8217;s Failed Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August of last year, the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, MT, failed a major security inspection. It passed a re-inspection a couple of months later.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Air Force authorities declined to reveal details of the reason for the failure.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Associated Press revealed the reason for that failure. From an AP article in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140522\/NEWS\/305220039\/Air-Force-security-failed-nuke-test\">Air Force Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Armed security forces at a nuclear missile base failed a drill last summer that simulated the hostile takeover of a missile launch silo because they were unable to speedily regain control of the captured nuclear weapon, according to an internal Air Force review obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The previously unreported failure, which the Air Force called a &#8220;critical deficiency,&#8221; was the reason the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana flunked its broader safety and security inspection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Air Force Times<\/em> article is fairly lengthy and provided additional details. IMO it\u2019s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was one of a series of problems occurring recently within the US strategic nuclear community.\u00a0 As a result, the SECDEF ordered a pair of parallel nuclear reviews earlier this year.\u00a0 Those reviews are currently still in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of last year, the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB, MT, failed a major &hellip; <a title=\"New Details About the 341st Missile Wing&#8217;s Failed Inspection\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48487\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Details About the 341st Missile Wing&#8217;s Failed Inspection<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}