{"id":30209,"date":"2018-05-21T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/21\/air-force-global-strike-orders-command-wide-inventory-after-weapons-losses-at-minot\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:50:37","slug":"air-force-global-strike-orders-command-wide-inventory-after-weapons-losses-at-minot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/05\/21\/air-force-global-strike-orders-command-wide-inventory-after-weapons-losses-at-minot\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Global Strike orders command-wide inventory after weapons losses at Minot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Air Force Global Strike Command is conducting an inventory of its weapons, across the entire command, in the wake of two high-profile weapons losses<\/a> at Minot Air Force Base<\/a> in North Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minot lost a container of ammunition for an automatic grenade launcher May 1 after it fell off a Humvee on a Native American reservation. About two weeks later, on May 16, Minot conducted a weapons inventory check and found an M240 machine gun was missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 5th Bomb Wing<\/a> and 91st Missile Wing began searching their inventories to find the missing machine gun, the 5th said, and the Air Force\u2019s Office of Special Investigations has opened an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an email Monday, Global Strike Command spokeswoman Linda Frost said the entire command is now reviewing its weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\t