Dec. 5, 2025 GT 254: 625 STOS uses ALCS, launches unarmed ICBM Airmen assigned to the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron employed the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) aboard a U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury to launch a test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025.
June 12, 2020 Weatherington takes command of ‘The Mighty Eighth’ and J-GSOC Maj. Gen. Mark Weatherington takes command of the J-GSOC and 8th Air Force, June 12, 2020.