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Video by Senior Airman Daniel Fernandez

Glory Trip 220: An Aircrew's Perspective

3d Audiovisual Squadron

April 25, 2017 | 1:10

U.S. Air Force Col. Lloyd Buzzell, 20th Air Force vice commander and U.S. Air Force Capt. Greg Carter, deputy missile combat crew commander-airborne assigned to the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron (STOS) at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., discuss the importance of the airborne control launch system and its launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) aboard a U.S. Navy E-6 Mercury Aircraft belonging to the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (VQ-3) at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., off the shores of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California during Glory Trip 220, Apr. 26, 2017. Glory Trip is an operational test launch which continues a long history of Western Range launches used to verify, validate and improve the capability of the nation’s ICBM force. (U.S. Air Force video by SrA Daniel Fernandez)