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This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.
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# DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Headquarters 341st Strategic Missile Wing (SAC) Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, 59402 BCRM 31 January 1968 Unit Progress Report (RCS: SAC-U89) SAC Programming Plan.12-66, LGM 30F (Minuteman) Force Modernization Program, Malmstrom AFB Month Ending 31 January 1968 10: 15AF (DCR) 1. Commander's Comments: The LGM 30F (Minuteman) Force Modernization Program is on schedule in the 341st Strategic Missile Wing. 2. Status Summaries: a. Personnel: All tasks will be accomplished on schedule. b. Operations and Training: All tasks will be accomplished on schedule. c. Communications: All tasks will be accomplished on schedule. d. Maintenance: (1) Training: (a) The programmed ATC formal technical retraining of twenty officers and two hundred and seventy-eight technicians in Force Modernization (WS133A-M System) is on schedule. During January, two ATC Travel Team Courses were completed. Forty members completed Course ADF 44370G-4 (Missile Maint. Technician/A-M) and forty officers and key noncommissioned officers completed Course ODF 3124G-2 (WS133A-M Supervisors' and Planners familiarization course). The completions of Travel Team Courses included thirty personnel who were not originally scheduled in the program. During this report period, the inputs into ATC technical courses at Chanute AFB were resumed, after a scheduled "break" for Christmas and New Year holidays. Eight members departed for Course AZR 31670G-3, Msl analyst, (Targeting) A-M; three to Course AZR 31672G, Electronics Technician; four to Course AZR 31670G-4, Msl Analyst (TEAT) A-M and one officer entered training in Course OZR 2825-4, TEAT Officer, A-M. As of 31 Jan 68, 248 members of the 341SMW had completed their technical retraining for maintenance support of the Force Modernized flight.
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