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Whiteman Air Force Base ,June 2009.

Whiteman Air Force Base is the home of the Air Force's premier bomber, the B-2 Spirit. Whiteman is located near Knob Noster, Mo. and is home to the 509th Bomb Wing and is host to the Air Force Reserve's 442nd Fighter Wing, flying A-10 Thunderbolt IIs; the Air National Guard's 131st Bomb Wing, also flying the B-2; the Army National Guard's 1-135th Attack Battalion, flying the AH-64 Apache; and the Navy Reserve's Maritime Expeditionary Security Division 13, which provides light, mobile, short-duration, point defense Anti-Terrorism Force Protection forces for USN ships and aircraft and other high value assets in locations where U.S. or host-nation security infrastructure is either inadequate or non-existent.