Minuteman III Launch from Vandenberg AFB Media Release

AUGUST 19TH, AIRMEN FROM MINOT AND VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASES CONDUCTED AN OPERATIONAL TEST LAUNCH OF AN UNARMED MINUTEMAN THREE MISSILE. THE TEST LAUNCH TOOK PLACE ON THE FORTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST AIR FORCE MINUTEMAN THREE MISSILES GOING ON ALERT WITH THE FORMER SEVEN FORTY-FIRST STRATEGIC MISSILE SQUADRON AT MINOT. TODAY’S TEST LAUNCH USED AN INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE PULLED RANDOMLY FROM A SILO ON MINOT, WHICH WAS THEN TRANSPORTED AND REASSEMBLED AT VANDENBERG, AND LAUNCHED BY CREW ME