Missile 
maintenance airmen of the 341st Space Wing at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., have replaced all guidance systems for the wing’s 150 Minuteman III ICBMs. The Malmstrom missileers finished ahead of Air Force Space Command’s two other Minuteman wings at Minot AFB, N.D. and F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. The maintainers replaced the NS-20 guidance system with the NS-50, under a guidance replacement program managed by the Ogden Air Logistics Center in Utah. Officials expect the other two MMIII units to complete their upgrades by early 2008. An Ogden official, noted that the NS-50 advances the state-of-the-art by some 30 years, providing increased in-flight reliability over the 1960s-vintage NS-20, while a 341st maintainer, MSgt. Eric Lang, remarked on its dependability and ease of maintenance. (USAF report by A1C Emerald Ralston)
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.