Ellsworth AFB News

Ellsworth, and all other air force bases nation wide, are handing over control of onbase housing to private developers as a way to save cost.

When Staff Sgt. Stan Lieberman returned from an overseas tour during World War II, he hoped the Army would send him to a base near his family in Massachusetts.

Weapons load crew Airmen prepare six GBU-54 laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions for loading onto three B-1 Lancer on May 12, 2012, during a Combat Hammer exercise at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. The goal of the exercise was to evaluate the effectiveness, maintainability, suitability and accuracy of precision-guided munitions and other advanced ... (more)

Boeing will deliver modification kits and perform retrofits at Dyess and Ellsworth AFB at Rapid City, S.D., the company said.

Shortly after dark on August 5, 1953, the Air Defense Command radar station at Ellsworth AFB, just east of Rapid City, had received a call from the local Ground Observer Corps filter center.