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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Richard Mullee, the 90th Missile Wing Safety Office missile safety superintendent, reviews the 90th Missile Maintenance squadron checklists during an annual weapons safety inspection June 9, 2015, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The office reviews checklists and guidance to assist Airmen on the job, while remaining safe in their work environment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Malcolm Mayfield)Weapons safety ensures ICBM effectiveness
                        
                        
                        Richard Mullee, the 90th Missile Wing Safety Office missile safety superintendent, reviews the 90th Missile Maintenance squadron checklists during an annual weapons safety inspection June 9, 2015, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The office reviews checklists and guidance to assist Airmen on the job, while remaining safe in their work environment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Malcolm Mayfield)
                
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        Richard Mullee, the 90th Missile Wing Safety Office missile safety superintendent, examines the midsection of the booster of the Minuteman III ICBM during the 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron’s annual weapons safety inspection June 9, 2015, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. Inspections play a vital part in the mission of the weapon safety office. They provide the office the opportunity to see the mission and work environment firsthand, in order to catch any issues before they worsen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Malcolm Mayfield)Weapons safety ensures ICBM effectiveness
                        
                        
                        Richard Mullee, the 90th Missile Wing Safety Office missile safety superintendent, examines the midsection of the booster of the Minuteman III ICBM during the 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron’s annual weapons safety inspection June 9, 2015, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. Inspections play a vital part in the mission of the weapon safety office. They provide the office the opportunity to see the mission and work environment firsthand, in order to catch any issues before they worsen. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Malcolm Mayfield)
                
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Weapons safety ensures ICBM effectivenessPublished June 12, 2015
                    
                    By Airman 1st Class Malcolm Mayfield
                    
                    
                    90th Missile Wing Public Affairs
            **F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo.  (AFNS) --**The 90th Missile Wing's mission is to defend America with the world's premier combat ready intercontinental ballistic missile force, and ensuring the safe execution of the mission is the prime focus of the 90th MW Safety Office.
"Safety is a huge, huge part of what we do," said Staff Sgt. Kevin Cain, a 90th Missile Maintenance Squadron weapons safety representative. "(Everything comes) back to us having to abide by safety, whether it's weapons safety or ground safety, whatever the case may be, to make sure we do the job safe, secure, and effectively."
When it comes to the weapons safety section's realm of control, it is divided into three areas: nuclear surety, missile safety and explosive safety.
The section conducts inspections to verify all of these areas are being safely executed by Airmen here.
"There is almost nothing on this base that we do as a wing that you can't somehow pull back or relate to nuclear surety," said Donald Koenig, the 90th MW Safety Office explosive safety superintendent.
Richard Mullee, the 90th MW Safety Office missile safety superintendent, explains that the ICBMs the wing is responsible for are immensely important. Weapons safety focuses on verifying that the assets the base operates are maintained and secured safely.
"We do a lot of operating instruction review, checklist review, (and) hands on inspection," Koenig said. "I'd say about 90 percent of our job is inspecting - making sure the young troops are out there doing what they need to be doing."
Mullee said the office conducts annual safety inspections of various units on base. Their goal is to prevent damage to equipment and to prevent injury to Airmen.
"The Airmen are the mission," Koenig said. "We are three old, crusty, senior NCOs that have had our career, so we use our experience to make sure things are done right, but the young Airmen are the ones that turn the wrenches."
Cain said the guidelines that regulate base operations are necessary, and that the Airmen accomplishing the mission every day – the ones in the action turning the wrenches – need to keep to those guidelines.
"Whenever I'm training brand new individuals, the biggest thing is safety," Cain said. "(Lack of safety) could cause you to harm and lose one of your most important resources, which is the individual."
He added that the weapons safety office keeps Airmen focused on accomplishing the mission in a safe manner because Airmen are the Air Force's number one resource and are vital for a secure environment, especially when dealing with the Air Force's number one priority - the nuclear deterrence mission.AFGSC 



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