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  • Luke Airmen deploy to Balikatan '09

    More than 70 Airmen and F-16 Fighting Falcons from here deployed Saturday to a joint and bi-lateral exercise in the central Luzon Province of the Philippines that runs from Thursday until April 30. Airmen from the 56th Fighter Wing will conduct operational, tactical training and civic assistance

  • Two-war veteran recalls combat

    It was standing room only at Club Thunderbolt when retired Col. Billy Diehl took the stage Tuesday. Colonel Diehl, a veteran of both the Vietnam and gulf wars, addressed an attentive crowd of Luke Thunderbolts, telling his combat experiences flying the F-4 Phantom and F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft

  • MOS wins over-30 championship

    The winter 2009 over-30 basketball season came to a dramatic close March 17 when the 56th Maintenance Operations Squadron defeated the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron 43-40 in the championship elimination game. The victory did not come easy. CE, came out of the loser's bracket, beat MOS, from the

  • $7.1M project brings gates to standards, poses traffic challenges

    A multi-million dollar project to bring Luke Air Force Base gates up to standards began in February. Along with other improvements, pop-up barriers are being installed that will provide a nine-second reaction time from the gates to the barriers. Currently, the project is 10 percent complete and is

  • UCI: Are you ready

    Operational Readiness Inspection, less than 30 days out, scheduled for May 4 through 8... easy day, right? No wait, now it's a Unit Compliance Inspection, which is actually harder. So, what's the difference? Basically an ORI grades your unit on executing its mission (what you do every day) plus

  • Loss prevention safeguards protect Airmen, families

    With a dual mission to provide quality merchandise and services at competitively low prices and to generate earnings to support family and morale, welfare and recreation programs, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service is enlisting the support of the latest loss-prevention technology to protect

  • 56th MDG laboratorians saluted as professionals

    More than 10 billion medical laboratory tests are performed in the United States each year to confirm diagnoses, rule out suspected conditions or monitor treatment. Sunday through April 25 the 56th Medical Group is celebrating the contributions of its laboratory professionals during National Medical