Montana: Missile Operators Investigated
Two missile-launch crew members at Malmstrom Air Force
Base have been implicated in an illegal narcotics operation, and their
access to classified information has been suspended, a Defense
Department official said Thursday. The two were members of the 341st
Missile Wing at the base. News of the investigation came as Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel
was visiting a sister missile base in Wyoming to deliver a message
about the importance of the United States nuclear weapons mission, which
has been troubled by morale problems.