{"id":20084,"date":"2019-05-24T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/24\/fe-warren-nuke-maintainers-caught-drinking-alcohol-at-missile-alert-facility\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:30:29","slug":"fe-warren-nuke-maintainers-caught-drinking-alcohol-at-missile-alert-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/05\/24\/fe-warren-nuke-maintainers-caught-drinking-alcohol-at-missile-alert-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"FE Warren nuke maintainers caught drinking alcohol at missile alert facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two maintainers from the 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming<\/a> were found to have consumed alcohol at a missile alert facility earlier this month, the base confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security forces at the facility on May 14 found alcoholic beverages belonging to the nuclear missile maintainers<\/a>, a staff sergeant and a senior airmen, said Joseph Coslett, spokesman for the 90th Missile Wing<\/a>, in an email. An investigation, which included an admission by the airmen, was conducted, and found the airmen had consumed the alcohol while off-duty, Coslett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coslett said the airmen \u201cwere not in contact [with], nor had any access to, weapons or classified material\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Coslett said, Air Force Global Strike Command regulations prohibit \u201cprocessing or consuming alcoholic beverages \u2026 within the confines of any missile alert facility \u2026 while en route to or from duty in the missile complex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t