--- title: "This is how two Air Force Bases ended up in a Twitter feud" description: "What do Whiteman Air Force Base and Minot Air Force Base have in common? Bombers! But on Oct. 23, the bomber families began butting heads on Twitter over whose airframe is the superior one." date: "2021-08-21" modified: "2021-08-22" authors: - name: "Blake Stilwell" job_title: "Editor-In-Chief, Air Force Veteran" link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/blake/" url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/this-is-how-two-air-force-bases-ended-up-in-a-twitter-feud/" categories: - "Air Force" - "History" - "Join the Military" - "Military Culture" --- # This is how two Air Force Bases ended up in a Twitter feud ![]() What do Whiteman Air Force Base and Minot Air Force Base have in common? Bombers! But on Oct. 23, 2017 the bomber families began butting heads on Twitter over whose airframe is the superior one. --- https://twitter.com/Whiteman\_AFB/status/922674653981761536 Team Minot has since seemed to delete the tweets that sparked the exchange, but judging from Whiteman's responses, the shots fired must have been pretty good. https://twitter.com/Whiteman\_AFB/status/922901451483090946 https://twitter.com/Whiteman\_AFB/status/922975337776115713 https://twitter.com/Whiteman\_AFB/status/923185409189994496 Finally, the official Air Force account stepped in. https://twitter.com/usairforce/status/922825807596318720 Which would have been fine except they told the world that Santa isn't real. https://twitter.com/usairforce/status/923196169601404931 Which got everyone's attention. https://twitter.com/Whiteman\_AFB/status/923202300491059207 https://twitter.com/TeamMinot/status/923213294986555393 Including the national media. One of the more recent holiday traditions in the United States is NORAD's Santa Tracker, which the Air Force helps run every year. The Air Force backtracked quickly. https://twitter.com/usairforce/status/923258655562174464 But I think we're going to give this one to Whiteman Air Force Base until Minot releases its Twitter history. The USAF Twitter Champion lives in Missouri. ## Author Blake Stilwell is We Are The Mighty's Editor-in-Chief, covering military news, entertainment, and history, along with veteran education, employment and entrepreneurship. He is a former U.S. Air Force combat cameraman with degrees in Graphic Design, Television and Film, International Relations, Public Relations, Business Management and Middle Eastern Affairs. After leaving the military, he began working in film and television production in New York and Los Angeles, work that included ABC News, NBC Olympics, and HBO Sports. He then spent two years in Washington with White House Communications, before joining the Near East Foundation. At NEF he served as an International Development Fellow, then Communications Officer, and finally, Media Officer for the Middle East and Africa. Based in the Palestinian Territory, he coordinated strategic communications between eight country offices, international media, and government and NGO partners. He began a career focused on writing and editing in 2015 with We Are The Mighty. He left in 2019 for Military.com, but returned as Editor-in-Chief in 2025. Blake’s work has been seen on CBS News, Fox News, CBC, The Chicago Tribune, Task & Purpose, Military Times, Recoil, Skillset, American History, and was shockingly even used in a Supreme Court argument. He is an avid traveler and small business owner in Ohio, where he spends most of his energy fixing up a very old house. ### Author social links [Facebook]() [Twitter]() [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()