An airman was killed and five others injured after a Humvee mishap at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana on Saturday, marking the latest incident with the armored military vehicle at America’s nuclear missile bases.
Late Monday evening, the airman was identified as Staff Sgt. Jorge Delgado, 38, assigned to the 341st Security Forces Squadron at Malmstrom. He was killed while traveling to his duty location in the Humvee.
Three airmen also in the vehicle with Delgado were injured, and two first responder airmen were harmed while responding to the incident, the base said in a news release. All five were taken to medical facilities for treatment. As of Monday, two remained in the hospital in stable condition and three had been released.
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Military.com reported earlier this year that the 20th Air Force — the numbered command that oversees intercontinental ballistic missile operations at Air Force bases such as Malmstrom, F.E. Warren in Wyoming and Minot in North Dakota — changed the way it was training and using Humvees following airmen deaths in the vehicles. Humvees are used by security forces airmen to make the long treks out to the missile alert facilities scattered through the remote and often treacherous terrain of the American West.
Officials told Military.com, which first learned about the new policy during a…
