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  • Allergy clinic is shot in arm for allergies, more

    The 56th Medical Group Immunizations and Allergy Clinic serves 92,000 active-duty service members, their dependents and retirees at Luke Air Force Base. The clinic also serves as a training facility for five other Air Force allergy and immunization clinics."What we do is important to ensure the

  • Airman serves God, country through music

    Although an avid musician, one Airman left the world of music behind to join the Air Force and to serve God and his country. He thought it would be a long time before he played an instrument again, but another Airman asked him to to accompany him in a poetry reading."One of my co-workers was doing a

  • 607th Air Control Squadron trains eyes in sky

    The control and reporting center that supports air operations is a ground-base command and control element designed to deploy anywhere in the world. The 607th Air Control Squadron mission at Luke Air Force Base is to train command and control, known as C2, battle management specialists to populate

  • WWII veteran shares story

    Everyone has a story. It could be a simple story or complex. Some may experience a moment that can change their lives forever. For retired Chief Master Sgt. Harold Bergbower, 26th Cavalry Regiment air mechanic, his time in the Air Force proved to be life changing, and he shared it May 15 at Club

  • Mini Thunderbolts build bikes

    It's an exciting moment, seeing children's faces full of joy and anticipation as they wait to start building a new bicycle.In celebration of Armed Forces Day, Build-A-Bike volunteers and their partners built and gave bikes to 30 children of Luke Air Force Base Thunderbolts May 17 at Fowler

  • 310th AMU: Keeping the Tophats ‘Bad to the Bone’

    It takes a lot of work to keep an F-16 Fighting Falcon flying, and it takes a lot of people to keep the seven fighter squadrons at Luke Air Force Base mission-ready. To ensure this is accomplished, Luke organizes aircraft maintenance units to do the job.The Airmen of the 310th Aircraft Maintenance

  • 944th CES knocks it out of park

    Last month, Airmen from the 944th Fighter Wing, temporarily said goodbye to the desert sun of Arizona and aloha to the tropical weather and beautiful scenery of the Hawaiian island of Oahu.During a two week annual tour, the 944th Civil Engineer Squadron was asked to participate in an Innovative

  • Luke opens courts to AF women’s volleyball team

    After selective tryouts, women of different ranks came together May 5 through 22 at Luke Air Force Base to practice for two major titles, the Armed Forces Championship for which they won silver and the overall USA Volleyball Adult Open Championship."Our coach told us to not take this lightly; this

  • Wheelchair racing becomes Marine’s passion

    For many, Luke Air Force Base is a place where people work and physically train to maintain the Air Force fitness standards, but for Marine Cpl. Ivan Sears, it is a place that can lead to a spot on the Paralympic Team for international competition.Sears joined the Marine Corps in October of 2008 as

  • AFECT Airmen teach flyers how to survive

    Flying a fighter jet requires hours upon hours of rigorous training preparing pilots for a multitude of battle scenarios, but there are some potentially fatal circumstances that can't be foreseen or avoided, such as bird strikes, engine failure or other mechanical problems leaving the pilot with