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  • Energy efforts extend to outdoor lighting

    We often hear people telling us to turn off the lights when we leave the room in order to save energy, but there are like efforts to save energy with outdoor area lighting, too.There is a copious amount of lighting at night in parking lots, shopping areas and dorms. This lighting uses energy, so it

  • Luke instructor headed for Thunderbirds

    Many baseball players dream of playing major league baseball, as well as football players aspiring to play in the National Football League. In the Air Force, many aircraft maintenance personnel dream of someday being part of the Thunderbirds.Tech. Sgt. Michael Criss, Detachment 12, 372nd Training

  • Luke MDG officer part of all-female team

    Half-way around the world and five months into the deployment has drastically changed my preconceived ideas of what my role would be as the provincial reconstruction team's female medical officer. If you told me last June that I would be in Afghanistan meeting with provincial leaders from the

  • Private war for Air Force sergeant

    Not a day goes by that one doesn't watch a newscast or read a magazine telling of a war going on in some part of the world. There have been highly publicized overthrow of governments throughout the Near and Middle East. However, as these conflicts rage, there is a Luke Air Force Base sergeant who is

  • Officers have opportunity to cross-flow into intelligence field

    For officers in one of the eight over-manned career fields who want to stay in the Air Force, the intelligence field is one of the five fields offered for cross-flow."Intelligence is a broad career field," said 1st Lt. Kuang Huang, 56th Operations Group deputy chief of readiness. "When an officer

  • Maintenance Pro Banquet

    The 56th Maintenance Group gathered Saturday to honor their finest Airmen at the maintenance professional of the year banquet.Selections for the awards were based on merit and job performance only. Flights from each squadron submitted one Airman in each category to receive an award.The nominations

  • Arkansas civic leaders tour Luke

    When the local community supports the Air Force mission, everyone wins. But, in order to gain and maintain support, the community needs to be knowledgeable about what the Air Force does and why. In order to learn about the Air Force, the Luke Air Force Base mission and see firsthand what Airmen do,

  • Chief selects recognized at Club Five Six

    Four Luke Air Force Base Airmen were honored for having attained the highest enlisted rank at the Chief Recognition Ceremony Feb. 25 at Club Five Six.With their promotions, Senior Master Sgts. James Conn, John Bilczewski, Stephen Kazmirski and Gregory Schmidt joined the ranks of those who make up

  • BX shoplifters, military members pay price

    Despite numerous shoplifters being caught with the aid of electronic article surveillance and closed circuit television cameras, shoplifting continues to be problematic at the Luke Air Force Base Exchange."Shoplifting from the exchange affects the entire military community," said Robert Carter Jr.,

  • MEDIA ADVISORY - Exercise to bring increased air activity March 2

    Luke Air Force Base's maintainers and student pilots from the 308th Fighter Squadron will undergo an exercise March 2. The exercise includes consecutive launches of approximately 46 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from Luke.The day will see more flights than normal with jets scheduled to take off from