anderson announced the dismissal and retirement of 10 command level captains and majors from the malmstromair force base missile command. for cheating on a routine periodic proficiency test. what has happened to the testing regime and what changes are being considered and implement it to make sure this climate of cheating does not continue? >> the people who were relieved and resigned all attendant colonels or colonels. it was the wing commander of the group committed to the deputy group command and then the squadron commanders at malmstrom. none of those people were actually involved in the cheating. the concern was that they didn't realize the cheating was occurring. each of the squadron that about 40% of the people involved in this to include a large number of instructors on the base. so basically the command of the 20th air force lost confidence in his commanders to commend them on at great an environment that was required to be successful and to maintain all of our core values as they move forward. and so that changes in limited have been intimated at that level. the secretary and i a

in the group commander, deputy group command and squadron commanders of the missile squadrons at malmstrom none of those people were actually involved in the cheating. the concern that they didn't realize the cheating was occurring. each of the squadrons had about 40% of the people involved in this to include a large number of instructors on base. so basically the commander of the 20 air force lost confidence in his commanders to manage the environment integrate an indictment that was required to be successful and to maintain all of our core values as they moved forward. the changes that had been implemented have been intimated at that level. the secretary and i are not telling them what to do. the commanders involved, general weinstein, jenna wilson, put together a command directed recommendation. they put together some formal focus groups. they formed a effort called the force improve the program whether brought people from every part of the nuclear community together with experts and advisers from outside including people from other services and from outside the military to look at ever

at malmstrom air force base in montana, three missileers are under investigation for drug possession,1 have been implicated in a scandal involving cheating on routine tests. >> jack weinstein: i am flying back. >> stahl: major general jack weinstein took control of all three nuclear bases in december, with a mandate to find out what ails the missile corps and fix it. let me ask you a question-- whether there's, i guess you'd call it an identity crisis with the mission as a whole. you have these nuclear weapons that no one believes we'll ever use, so do you find that that's an issue-- the question of "what's the mission?" >> weinstein: no, because we use these weapons every single day protecting our nation. deterrence has a value. it has a value for our nation; it has a value for our allies. >> stahl: general weinstein commands a force of 9,600, including maintenance technicians who keep the missiles in working order, security forces that guard the weapons and provide a heavily armed escort any time the warheads are being moved, and about 500 missileers who man 45 control centers aroun