Jill Schramm/MDN Tim Barlow, right, with the U.S. Air Force, provides information on missile silo sites to Jason Hirshberg and Molly Woods, both Minot, at a Sentinel town hall in Minot Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Health, safety and logistics were on the minds of members of the public who attended a town hall meeting Tuesday, Aug. 26, on the U.S. Air Force’s proposed Sentinel missile replacement project coming to the Minot area.

Maj. Gen. Colin Connor, director of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Modernization, explained the need to modernize the missile fields, comparing the existing 60-year-old equipment to dial-up internet and 35-year-old vehicles. The cost of a new system will be expensive upfront but inexpensive to maintain in comparison, he said.

“But as we need to modernize, it wil

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