November 2, 2020

2018 Academy grad shares MMIII test launch experience with mother

1st Lt. Taylor Tonnies, 742nd Missile Squadron operator, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brittany Murphy) Story by Capt. Leva Bytautaite, 20th Air Force Public Affairs, Nov. 2, 2020 F. E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AFNS) -- In the early morning of June 8, 1994, then-1st Lt. Linda Tonnies, 740th Missile Squadron operator, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, turned the launch key to launch an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM for Glory Trip 155 at Vandenberg AFB, California. Little did she know that 26 years later, her daughter 1st. Lt. Taylor Tonnies, 742nd Missile Squadron operator, Minot AFB, would do the same....

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