Minot, Loring Maine, and a few of the other deep freeze bases along the Canadian border have always had staffing problems. Back when SAC was still in existence, they got around to rotating just about everybody through those places before the Air Force wide musical chair department got to them. Since dedicated command structures like SAC, TAC, ADC, etc. got phased out, a lot of intra-command transfers stopped. In general, things just don't get done in the military the way we did it 40 years ago. Some people think that's a good thing!
Jerry
