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  • Chaplain's passion to serve helps Airmen, families

    The Luke Air Force Base community chapel sits on the corner of 139th Drive and Shooting Star Street. Under cathedral ceilings, members line velvet red seats for Sunday service and meetings throughout the week. Within the chapel's walls are many offices filled with volunteers and assistants that

  • Base prepares for inspection

    One might think of base security as watching for odd behavior or out-of-place packages, but there is another realm of security. "Security is everyone's responsibility," said Master Sgt. Denise Ziwisky, 56th Communications Squadron network operations section chief. "That statement stands for the

  • Renaissance festival holds something for everyone

    Hear ye, hear ye! Gather 'round and attend the towne crier! Come one and come all! The king and queen cordially invite ye to visit the Kingdom of Fairhaven! Fun and festivities for the whole family!2014 marks the 26th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival. The festival is seven miles east of Apache

  • Housing Management Office: Helping Airmen find place to live

    There is an office on Luke Air Force Base where Airmen can go who want information about off-base housing, information about living on base versus off base and a multitude of other housing-related questions. It's an office that every Airman living in a dormitory moving off base must visit. It's a

  • Pilot training exhausting, challenging, rewarding

    The 308th Fighter Squadron has more than 45 pilots who are dedicated to the training and certification of F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots. But the FS only gets the new pilots after they have already been through officer training and initial flight training."We're responsible for taking the new

  • SFS tackles increased criminal activity on base

    A crime prevention meeting was hosted by 56th Security FoA crime prevention meeting was hosted by 56th Security Forces Squadron and Balfour Beatty Communities Feb. 13. All residents from base housing and the dormitories were invited to attend, as well as representatives from the Glendale Police

  • LRS defeats Marines 9-5, wins soccer championship

    On the final day of a two-week intramural soccer tournament, there were two teams still standing to play the championship game.The 56th Logistics Readiness Squadron stepped onto the Luke Air Force Base soccer field Monday to take on the Marine Corps' team 9-5 for the intramural soccer championship.

  • Wings of Blue to jump during open house

    It all started in the spring of 1962 when a band of bootleg jumpers made their first parachute jumps as cadets. Using condemned survival, evasion, resistance and escape rigs and local aviation pilots, these cadets made several jumps in the Colorado area. During that spring, a few cadets, at their

  • New active-duty education requirements coming up

    For Airmen who wish to pursue their education after completion of a Community College of the Air Force degree, there are upcoming changes active-duty Airmen should prepare for."Once tuition assistance was brought back, new requirements for TA approval were set forth," said Sandy Cooper, 56th Force

  • MOS Airman – one of fastest on track

    Airman 1st Class Melissa Franks, 56th Medical Operations Squadron medical technician, started running cross-country at age 15. While developing her skills as a cross-country runner she was awarded a cross-country scholarship to Yavapai College in Prescott. Franks was awarded the title All-American