Male Speaker: The home of the B-2 Whiteman Air Force Base lies nestled in the wooded rolling hills of Southwest Missouri, near the town of Knob Noster. Whiteman is a sprawling complex of buildings and land covering 10,332 acres. Along with the hangers, runways and support buildings necessary for an Air force base. Whiteman also has a movie theatre, bowling alley, shopping, apartments, houses, schools and a gas station.
Whiteman is really a small city designed to make the lives of the servicemen and women who live there, easier. But Whiteman wasn't always this sprawling complex that it is today. Its storied history stretches all the way back to the 1940s, when it was Sedalia Army Air Field. During world war-II, Sedalia Army Air Field was used for training glider troops, specifically for Norman de invasion. After that war, it became a missile base for the minuteman missile. The unit that flies the B-2, the 509th bomber wing was formed at the end of World War two for a secret mission to drop a bomb that didn't exist yet.
Today 509th is at Whiteman and flies the most awesome bomber ever built. Their emblem pays tribute to the fact that they are only the combat unit to have used nuclear weapons.
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