Kehler: NSI Failures Part of Solution

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Missileers with the 90th Missile Wing keep watch over a launch control center. The wing passed the personnel reliability portion of its nuclear surety inspection but failed the maintenance portion, according to an Air Force official.


Kehler: NSI Failures Part of Solution

By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Dec 19, 2008 14:48:15 EST

The 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., became on Dec. 17 the third missile wing to fail its nuclear surety inspection this year.

Air Force Space Command leaders insist that’s exactly what they expected.

Gen. Robert Kehler, head of Space Command, and Space Command Inspector General Col. Scott “Scooter” Gilson, said the failures didn’t surprise either one of them during a year in which nuclear inspections got tougher as the Air Force works to repair its nuclear enterprise.

“We don’t like failures, but failures in this case, in terms of identifying the problems, are part of the fix to the nuclear enterprise. It’s like medicine,” Kehler said.

The 90th failed the NSI after its maintenance group did not properly document tests on its missiles, even leaving some tests completely undocumented, said an Air Force official who asked not to be named.

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