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  • 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

  • CFP brings it all together

    There are more than 5,000 people on Luke Air Force Base and keeping the computers up to date and running for all of them is a monumental task. But one flight on base is here to do just that.The 56th Communications Squadron Comm Focal Point is responsible for all of the clients on base. But when they

  • Planning, scheduling core of MXG mission

    It usually goes unnoticed when the heart is operating as intended, but let it skip a beat, and even the strongest will take note. Almost the same can be said for plans and scheduling. Overlooked by some, it is the heart of the 56th Maintenance Group. The 56th MXG plans and scheduling team are the

  • Thunderbolt picks up dream, heads to Tops in Blue

    Airman 1st Class Jeremiah Barnes, 56th Communications Squadron network operations, is the latest Thunderbolt to be selected to perform in Tops in Blue, the Air Force's premiere expeditionary entertainment unit. Tops in Blue selects its members from the Air Force rank and file stationed all over the