Air Force Investigating Drug Abuse at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base

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Several U.S. airmen working at a Wyoming nuclear base have been suspended in an investigation of off-duty drug use, defense officials told NBC News.So

March 18, 2016, 12:35 PM EDT / Updated March 18, 2016, 7:34 PM EDT

By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube

Several U.S. airmen working at a Wyoming nuclear base have been suspended in an investigation of off-duty drug use, defense officials told NBC News.

Some of the 14 Air Force members under investigation worked security at the installation, the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, the officials said. But none were directly connected to any nuclear weapons operations, they said.

No one has been charged.

Gen. Robin Rand, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, said Friday that all 14 of the airmen held low ranks — airman, airman first class or senior airman. They are among 1,300 airmen in the missile security group at Warren.

The Air Force has not said what drug the airmen are suspected of using.The investigation began was a result of an airman's tip, Rand said.

Jim Miklaszewski

Jim Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News. On 9/11, he was the first at the scene to report that the Pentagon had been attacked and has since led the network's coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

Since joining NBC in 1985, Miklaszewski was a White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush administrations, covering President Clinton's transition from Little Rock, his many trips abroad including Moscow and the Middle East and his reelection. He was also an NBC floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican conventions in 1996 and 2000.

In the Bush White House, Miklaszewski reported on the Gulf War with Iraq, summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and the Bush reelection campaign in 1992.

Miklaszewski has logged considerable foreign experience with battlefront coverage of wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands. He also covered the United States air raid on Libya, and the "tanker wars" in the Persian Gulf.

Courtney Kube

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Jon Schuppe contributed.

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