page_title: 91st Missile Wing
hierarchical_section_title: 91st Missile Wing
caption_attribution_description: English: A U.S. Air Force Bell UH-1N Huey helicopter (s/n 69-6619) from the 54th Helicopter Squadron, 91st Missile Wing Rough Riders, takes off at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota (USA), on 2 September 2005 for Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi (USA), to assist in the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. Thirteen people and a helicopter from the 54th Helicopter Squadron were deployed to aid the recovery.
context_page_description: The 91st Missile Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command Twentieth Air Force. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota as a tenant unit.
  The 91 MW is one of the Air Force's three intercontinental ballistic missile wings. The missile wing, whose members are known as the Rough Riders, is responsible for defending the United States by maintaining a fleet of 150 Minuteman III missiles and 15 Launch Control Centers located in underground facilities scattered across the northwest part of the state. The wing's missile complex stretches over 8,500 square miles—approximately the same size as Massachusetts.
  The wing's on-alert missiles are under the operational control of the nation's strategic war-fighting command, U.S. Strategic Command, based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
  The wing's predecessor, the World War II 91st Bombardment Group was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit formed at MacDill Field, Florida and subsequently stationed with Eighth Air Force in England. It was one of the first United States Army Air Forces heavy bombardment groups deployed to Europe in 1942.
context_section_description: The 91st Missile Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command Twentieth Air Force.  It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota as a tenant unit.
  The 91 MW is one of the Air Force's three intercontinental ballistic missile wings. The missile wing, whose members are known as the Rough Riders, is responsible for defending the United States by maintaining a fleet of 150 Minuteman III missiles and 15 Launch Control Centers located in underground facilities scattered across the northwest part of the state. The wing's missile complex stretches over 8,500 square miles—approximately the same size as Massachusetts.
  The wing's on-alert missiles are under the operational control of the nation's strategic war-fighting command, U.S. Strategic Command, based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
  The wing's predecessor, the World War II 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit formed at MacDill Field, Florida and subsequently stationed with Eighth Air Force in England.  It was one of the first United States Army Air Forces (AAF) heavy bombardment groups deployed to Europe in 1942.  The 91st Bomb Group was stationed at RAF Bassingbourn and is most widely known as the unit in which the bomber Memphis Belle flew, and for having suffered the greatest number of losses of any heavy bombardment group in World War II.
  As part of Strategic Air Command (SAC), the 91st wing was one of SAC's longest-lasting and most versatile wings. It was a strategic reconnaissance wing from 1948 to 1957 and a B-52 bombardment wing from 1963 to 1968.  Its men flew virtually every plane in the SAC inventory. It became a missile wing in June 1968.  On 1 July 2008 it was designated as the 91st Missile Wing.
  The 91st Missile Wing is commanded by Colonel Glenn T. Harris and its Command Chief Master Sergeant is Chief Master Sergeant Garrett W. Langston.
caption: UH-1N of the 54th Helicopter Sqn at Minot Air Force Base in 2005
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