September Dispatch

Hello Torchlight Initiative subscribers, registrants, and supporters.  This periodic dispatch will provide a status update concerning Air Force (AF) Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) community cancers and other diseases, illnesses, and disorders.  We’ve made a...
RYAN’S STORY

RYAN’S STORY

RYAN LUECKE My name is Ryan Luecke and I'm sharing my story because I don't believe the toxic exposure from serving in LCCs is limited to Malmstrom AFB. In our training at Vandenberg AFB, we were told that we could serve in ANY of the 45 Minutemen III REACT-A Launch...

MONTE’S STORY

MONTE’S STORY

 MONTE WATTS My service at Malmstrom AFB was from 1993-1997 assigned to the 12th Missile Squadron and 341 Operations Group.  During my crew time (which happened during the RIVET ADD and Rapid Execution And Combat Targeting (REACT) modification programs) I pulled alert...

MARK’S STORY

MARK’S STORY

MARK'S STORY 12/21/82-05/12/2020 My name is Jenny Holmes. I am the wife of the late Major Mark Holmes. I so wish that Mark could be here writing his own narrative, but I feel honored to be his voice.  DIAGNOSIS If we go back to the very beginning, it would be in 2018....

DANNY’S STORY

DANNY’S STORY

 DANNY SEBECK My name is Daniel (Danny) C. Sebeck, and I served in the 10th Missile Squadron and 341 Operations Support Squadron at Malmstrom AFB from 2003-2007.  During that time, I heard many stories about missileers with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) from instructors...

JASON’S STORY

JASON’S STORY

JASON'S STORY 04/06/1970-07/22/2001   Captain Jason Leo Jenness served in the 564th Missile Squadron at Malmstrom AFB from 1993 – 1997. Jason was a healthy, fit all-American guy with his entire life ahead of him when he was diagnosed in March 2001. Jason had...