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  • ‘Baby of Bataan’ shares story, wisdom

    Most 14-year-old boys are starting high school and concerned with meeting girls or playing sports, but not so for retired Staff Sgt. Joseph Johnson, who at that tender age enlisted in the Army in 1940. He became a Japanese prisoner of war for more than three years and was the youngest member to

  • Emergency mass notification system can save your life

    What do you do when you are on base and severe weather is fast approaching or a gunman has started randomly shooting people on base? The installation command post will warn and provide instructions simultaneously to all government computers, telephones, building public address systems, the outside

  • Thunderbolt competes in AF Marathon

    Senior Airman Aaron Peacock, 56th Component Maintenance Squadron engine mechanic, competed in the 2012 Air Force Marathon in Dayton, Ohio, September 15, 2012.  The field included 15,000 runners representing all 50 states, 15 countries and all military services. "The event was amazing," Peacock said.

  • FOD walk on schedule for Thunderbolts

    Although small items that tend to get kicked around on the ground every day may seem harmless, they can be deadly to an F-16. Rags, pieces of paper or line, articles of clothing, nuts, bolts, or tools found in the wrong place, are known as foreign object debris. When these things end up on the

  • Young maintainer rises to top of MXG

    Luke Air Force Base's top maintainer spent his childhood hopping from location to location as a "Navy brat." Though he was never quite sure where his family's travels would take him, he knew where he wanted to land as an adult. That landing now involves making sure aircraft are ready to fly in the

  • Bowling champions, clinic draws crowd

    Two champion bowlers, Norm Duke and Randy Pedersen, conducted a bowling clinic Sunday at Thunderbolt Lanes. The clinic included on-lane instruction with the pros, trick shot exhibition, challenge match and photo and autograph session. The bowling clinic was sponsored by Next Level Bowling, which

  • CFC: small donations turn into big $$

    Every year one event comes around for seven weeks that helps federal employees donate to charities. The program is the Combined Federal Campaign and is scheduled to kickoff Monday and run through Nov. 9.During the campaign, representatives from each squadron, called key workers, will contact people

  • OG commander goes from fan to flier

    He grew up living under the flight path of jets heading to the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl for a high-speed flyby. As a teenager, he spent time fishing in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains watching fighter jets screaming overhead at more than 500 miles per hour, just 100 feet off the ground.Now