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  • 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

  • Luke maintainers getting future experience first-hand

    When the Air Force announced Luke Air Force Base as the next training location for F-35A Lightning IIs, maintainers temporarily assigned here began to feel like they were already in the future environment.Since January 2011, F-16 Fighting Falcons have been on "loan" at the 33rd Fighter Wing from

  • Luke Falcons make Defender's Cup quarter-finals

    The Falcons Football Club, Luke Air Force Base's varsity soccer team, recently participated in the Defender's Cup, a joint-service tournament hosted every year in September by Joint Base San Antonio at the Star Soccer Complex.The Falcons began the tournament ranked 20 out of 22 teams. However, their

  • ‘On house’ medical services not really free

    How many times have you heard that those in the military receive "free" medical care? Well, it is free isn't it? Not even close. In fact, every aspect of a person's medical care has a cost. Each year the Defense Department spends more than $50 billion for medical care, and every year that cost