The 5th Maintenance Squadron's Electro-Environmental Section

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The 5th Maintenance Squadron's Electro-Environmental Section has 13 technicians who support multiple agencies on Minot Air Force Base to include the 91st Missile Wing, 5th Operations Group and 5th Maintenance Group. They service and repair 19 liquid and gaseous oxygen carts. These carts provide Minot's B-52H Stratofortress fleet with breathing oxygen, essential to high-altitude flight. Additionally, they perform major inspections and maintenance on the 5th Bomb Wing's B-52H aircraft and 91st MW's UH-1 helicopters. Finally, they maintain 28 life raft inflation assemblies which are essential to aircrew emergency evacuation. (Photo courtesy of the Command Chief's Office)

The Career Development Office

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The Career Development Office ensures Team Minot Airmen are qualified, cleared, and eligible for assignments, promotions, separations, retirements, retention, and reenlistment bonuses. They provide guidance to commanders, chiefs, and first sergeants on military personnel issues and programs affecting the more than 6,000 personnel assigned here. The team processes approximately 650 assignments, 980 reenlistments, and $1.5 million in Selective Reenlistment Bonus payments annually. Their outstanding efforts helped lead the Military Personnel Section to be ranked as the number one MPS in Air Force Global Strike Command. (Photo courtesy of the Command Chief's Office)

5th Bomb Wing SERE

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The 5th Bomb Wing SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) Specialists are responsible for ensuring that all Minot Air Force Base aircrew stay combat mission ready by providing Code of Conduct Continuation Training. These events take place year round and consist of land survival, water survival emergency parachute procedure, and high risk of isolation briefings. Their mission is to ensure that aircrew are ready to Survive Evade Resist and Escape if they ever become isolated. (Photo Courtesy of the Command Chief's Office)

5th MDG Referral Management Center & Patient Appointment Services

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The Referral Management Center are 100 percent responsible for 17,000 referrals a year. They ensure patients understand the referral process, that the referral is accurate, valid, activated, and scheduled when possible. They track the referral once a patients sees a network provider to ensure the results of the referral are reported back to the MDG in a timely fashion and that the patient's Primary Care Manager reviews the notes and that the notes are scanned into the patients electronic medical record. The Patient Appointment Services center answers approximately 73,000 calls per year for 12,550 enrollees. The appointment line handles everything from booking appointments to entering telephone consults with the nurse. They are the frontline for the MDG's ability to provide patient's access to care. They constantly monitor provider availability and ensure that patients get what they need in one phone call to every extent possible. (Photo Courtesy of the Command Chief's Office)

5th Comptroller Squadron

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- The 5th Comptroller Squadron funds and enables the Minot AFB mission through financial advice and customer service. The 5th CPTS ensures funds are properly allocated in an effective manner in support of mission objectives and within fiscal limitations. The squadron also provides pay support to military and civilian personnel assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Carmen Washington)

5th OSS Air Traffic Controllers

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Currently operating out of a deployable air traffic control tower, the air traffic controllers of the 5th Operations Support Squadron are responsible for safe, efficient and expeditious aircraft operations within the terminal airspace of Minot Air Force Base. Air Traffic Controllers are essential components to the B-52H Stratofortress,' and the UH-1N Huey's operations, which are crucial for the success of the nuclear enterprise. The new Minot Control Tower is under construction and is estimated to be finished May 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Carmen Washington)