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  • Base program diverts recyclables from landfill

    Imagine putting trash into a machine and getting cash for it. Would you do it? Tired of looking at the same old office furniture but lack money to buy new stuff? There are no tricks or gimmicks. Luke Air Force Base has a pre-existing recycling program to benefit offices, the base, local community

  • LOSC: Mixing friendship with service

    Rhonda Chozinski and Becky Messelheiser chat and tease each other like they have known each other since childhood. No one would ever know that they have known each other for less than two years, and according to Mrs. Chozinski, close friendships are one of the many benefits that go along with being

  • Use of DOD form improves services

    All non-active-duty persons using 56th Medical Group facilities must fill out a Defense Department Form 2569 yearly so the military can bill insurance companies for services, including prescriptions dispensed at the satellite pharmacy. Completing the form is required for all non-active-duty persons

  • Engineers take football championship

    The 56th Civil Engineer Squadron stomped the joint 56th Mission Support Squadron and 56th Services Squadron 42-0 Oct. 9 during the Luke Air Force Base intramural flag football championship. The CES team was ranked number one throughout the tournament, winning every game, while the underdog, MSS-SVS

  • Are you a five o’clock dodger or a true patriot?

    It's five o'clock in the afternoon and the first note of To The Colors is playing letting everyone know Retreat is about to start. What do you do? Are you the one standing in the doorway waiting for the music to stop playing? Are you the one driving with your radio so loud you can't even hear the

  • Giving Luke a chance

    Capt. Jacob Aaron Allgood, 56th Medical Group internist, and his wife, LeAnn, have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of their baby boy, Luke. Like most new parents, the Allgoods were a little nervous, and very excited, about bringing home their first child. But they didn't bring him home in a

  • Luke pilot surpasses 3,000 hours

    Equivalent to 125 days spent strapped into a seat of an F-16 Fighting Falcon is the flying of 3,000 hours -- a milestone one pilot surpassed here Sept. 22. Lt. Col. Tony Barrell, 56th Fighter Wing Range Management Office air range operations chief has been chipping away for more than 20 years of

  • Neuropsychological assessment comes to Luke

    A common denominator of every war from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is injury to the head, whether emotional or physical. Traumatic brain injuries in the current conflicts are a focus of concern for leadership, according to Col. (Dr.) Joseph Chozinski, 56th

  • Thunderbolts mourn loss of Luke Airman

    More than 200 Thunderbolts gathered at a memorial ceremony to mourn the loss of Airman 1st Class Rashad Seals at the Luke Chapel Oct. 3. Airman Seals, a member of the 56th Security Forces Squadron, drowned Sept. 20 while tubing in the Salt River near Mesa. The memorial was attended by Brig. Gen.