Minot Airmen Cope with Record Flooding

07/17/11 Minot Air Force Base lies north of the city of Minot, N.D. On an average day the base has about 12,000 people working or living on it, airmen and families, a National Guard unit and civilian employees. The base is home to the 91st Missile Wing and the Fifth Bomb Wing. The men and women assigned to the Base provide deterrence and strike capability worldwide to the President in time of war.

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Korean War POW finally coming home after 60 years

07/20/11 Recovery of remains gives family closure FARGO - More than 60 years after he died as a prisoner of war in Korea, Cpl. James Norman Sund is coming home. Sund's remains, which were recently recovered and identified by the Army, will arrive Friday night at Fargo's Hector International Airport, where the Minnesota Army National Guard's Honor Guard will perform military honors.

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Flooding eases in Northeast Kansas county

07/19/11 TROY, Kan. (AP) - Kansas officials have pulled an emergency management team out of a northeastern county as flooding eases on the Missouri River. KNZA-FM reports the Kansas Department of Emergency Management's Incident Management Team left Doniphan County on Monday. Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the state's emergency management director, began sending National Guard soldiers to the county in mid-June ...

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