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  • Come and join the club

    Remember the days when most Air Force bases had officer and NCO clubs, and some bases even had an enlisted club. As with almost everything in the Air Force, there have been changes and the club scene is no different. Luke Air Force Base features Club Thunderbolt and the Desert Star Club. Club

  • Command chief named to USA team coaching staff

    Imagine playing and coaching baseball and softball for most of your life and then being informed that you have been named to the coaching staff of the USA Men's Slow Pitch team. It may sound too good to be true, but it is. That's what happened to Chief Master Sgt. Randall Raper, 56th Fighter Wing

  • WWII 63rd FS top gun takes out German ace

    During the early 1940s, the 56th Fighter Group's potent P-47 Thunderbolts did not enjoy the air superiority they would later tear from the hands of the enemy. Those P-47 pilots faced a disciplined, experienced and highly-trained corps of Luftwaffe pilots flying excellent fighters in the ME-109 and

  • Navy, Marines coming to Luke

    Driving west on Lightning Street at Luke Air Force Base, it is impossible to miss the major construction that has been going on for the last few months in the lot east of the life skills building. The building construction will be wrapping up this fall, and Luke will become the new home for a Marine

  • EOD named Air Force top team of year

    The Air Force and the Air Force Association named the Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal as team of the year, and the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD Flight shares this award. The AFA, in coordination with major command level command chief master sergeants and the Office of the Chief Master Sgt.

  • Baseball legend visits Luke

    Editor's note: Tommy Lasorda has been in the Los Angeles Dodger organization for 60 years and managed the Dodgers for 20 seasons from 1977 to 1996. The Dodgers won the World Series in 1981 and 1988 under his management. Every sport has its legends - people who transcend the game and become

  • 56th Security Forces named Air Force best

    It was a very good year was the title of one of the late Frank Sinatra's biggest hit songs. The title would be appropriate for the 56th Security Forces Squadron as they captured the Air Force Outstanding Security Forces (medium) Unit award for 2008. A medium unit consists of 126 to 230 permanent and

  • Air show visitors take 'sentimental journey'

    Gonna take a Sentimental Journey. Gonna set my heart at ease. Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, to renew old memories. Sentimental Journey is a song by Doris Day and Les Brown's Band of Renown. It was released in 1945 and was Ms. Day's first number one song. Also in 1945, a new B-17G Flying Fortress

  • WW II aces grace Luke air show

    The Luke Days 2009 Thunder in the Desert Open House and Air Show was filled with the latest fighter aircraft, as well as numerous demonstrations, highlighted by the Thunderbirds. Tens of thousands of people heard and saw the sights and sounds of technologically advanced machines as well as

  • Tuskegee Airmen share legacy

    Americans enjoy freedom and equal rights, but sometimes there is a tendency to take them for granted. Sometimes people tend to think the way it is today is the way it has always been. Luke Air Force Base was privileged to have two surviving Tuskegee Airmen whose feats not only helped preserve