MINOT, N.D. — The sign over the main gate at Minot Air Force Base brags, “Only the Best Come North.”It’s been a questionable claim over the past two years at the North Dakota base following a rash of nuclear-related screwups that spurred no mushroom clouds but embarrassed the military and cost several officers their careers.The new base commander said the foul-ups — including a cross-country flight from Minot of a B-52 bomber mistakenly armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles — stemmed from lax attitudes in maintaining the arsenal there.“We had a compliance problem,” Col. Douglas Cox told The Associated Press in an interview at the base. “There were rules that weren’t followed or were atrophied.”Cox and Col. Ferdinand Stoss, the 91st Missile Wing’s new commander, are both promising perfection — just as their predecessors did.
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New Minot commanders promise accountability
@chels I know what you mean, its hard to find good help these days. People now days just don’t have the work ethic they used to have. I mean consider whoever wrote this post, they must have been working hard to write that good and it took a good bit of their time I am sure. I work with people who couldn’t write like this if they tried, and getting them to try is hard enough as it is.