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  • Operation KIDS makes impact

    It happens to most military families. Mom and dad sit down with their children to explain there is a deployment coming up and one or both parents have a lot to do to get ready. Children generally don't see all the things parents do to prepare or how they live once they're deployed, but the Luke Air

  • Ducks help feed world's hungry

    Everyday there are children suffering from starvation throughout the world and to help make a difference Airmen from the 309th Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base participated Saturday in an event with Feed My Starving Children in Tempe."FMSC helps the fight against child starvation around the

  • Nature, earth festival happens on three rivers

    Bird watching, canoe riding, paddle boarding and crocodile wrestling ... well, no crocodile wrestling. But at the Tres Rios Nature and Earth Festival, a free one-day festival, these and other events are scheduled. The Oct. 27 festival is geared toward educating participants about the environment.

  • AFSO21 saved 56th FW big $$

    An Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century Excess Inventory Redistribution/6S event was held at Luke Air Force Base. It helped members of the Luke Air Force Base weapons back shop organize needed on-hand supplies and identify excess inventory that will eventually be redistributed across the

  • Qualified disabled make contribution in work place

    October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. In observance of the month, the NDEAM committee is featuring a luncheon Oct. 26 at Club Five Six.The observance dates back to 1945, when Congress enacted a law declaring the first week of October in each year National Employ the Physically

  • 607th ACS seizes championship from 56th CS

    The 607th Air Control Squadron defeated the 56th Communications Squadron Oct. 11 at the Bryant Fitness Center football field by a final score of 19-6 to become the intramural flag football champions.The teams arrived in the championship game from different paths. ACS made their way by defeating

  • AF officials releasing enlisted quarterly assignment listing

    Air Force officials are releasing the enlisted quarterly assignment listing, or EQUAL, on Oct. 22 for the July to September 2013 overseas assignment cycle. Enlisted Airmen must update their assignment preferences by Nov. 1 and they will be notified of their assignment selections by Nov. 16."We are

  • Fire Muster

    Members of the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Services held a fire muster Oct. 12 as part of the National Fire Prevention week. The event featured an obstacle course including having a four-man team fill a barrel with water by transporting water in buckets from the drop tank and throwing it onto

  • Nurse Transition Program ticket to new career

    There are many paths Airmen take to become nurses whether being prior enlisted or commissioning immdiately after college. Whatever the case, the Nurse Transition Program is here to prepare them for their future endeavors."The NTP helps provides a solid foundation for brand new Air Force nurses,"

  • Calling all thrifty shoppers

    At Luke Air Force Base there is a place where military personnel can buy items at a bargain price while at the same time helping the base and a variety of charities the proceeds go to. The thrift shop has reopened for business after being closed for the summer."The thrift shop is located in Bldg.