Meet your GSC team: 91st Missile Maintenance Squadron Published Sept. 2, 2014 By Airman 1st Class Apryl Hall Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Select members of the 91st Missile Maintenance Squadron were chosen to represent the Rough Riders at the 2014 Global Strike Challenge. Throughout the past four months, the team of eight has been training and preparing for the annual competition. The key to the team's training was continuous practice. They would do the job from start to finish up to four times a day to prepare. "We did the job in repetitive nature," said Staff Sgt. Jason Keen, lead trainer for the GSC. "We would do it three or four times a day for 16, 18, 20 hours a day, Monday through Friday, Saturday and Sunday." For Keen, this year's competition is slightly more exciting due to there not being a GSC last year, he said. This time around, the competition is going back to its roots. "We're actually excited that they're bringing it back like it used to be back in the day," Keen said. "We actually get to compete out at Vandenberg. It'll be a different change of pace to how competitions have normally been." The team traveled to Vandenberg AFB, California to compete. The competition was comprised of several different scenarios involving Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile repairs, including maintenance on everything from the tube to the warhead. Keen and the rest of the team are confident their hard work will pay off. "The plane is coming back a little extra heavy when we come back from score-posting," Keen said. 91st Missile Maintenance Squadron GSC competitors: Staff Sgt. David Frost - Topside instructor Staff Sgt. Christopher Hawkins - Team chief Staff Sgt. Robert Howell - Downside instructor/alternate Staff Sgt. Jason Keen - Lead trainer Staff Sgt. Michael Watson - Board man Senior Airman Brandon Cain - Missile maintenance technician topsider Senior Airman Joshua Kulonis - Missile maintenance technician topsider Senior Airman Joshua Melendez - Cage man