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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

Tech. Sgt. Toby McCord, 310th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew team leader, watches as a GBU-12 Paveway II is raised onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the 56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew competition at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. Each of the six teams had to load two weapons on an aircraft during the competition. (U.S. Air Force photo/SSgt Jensen Stidham)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

Tech. Sgt. Toby McCord, 310th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, weapons load crew team leader places a fin on an AIM-120 missile during the 56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew competition at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. One of the last things the six teams had to do in order to finish the competition was place all eight fins on the missile. (U.S. Air Force photo/SSgt Jensen Stidham)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

Senior Airman Jonathan Bradley, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew team member, prepares a GBU-12 Paveway II to be loaded onto an F-35A Lightning II at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. Six different AMUs from Team Luke competed in the 56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew competition which evaluates technical proficiency, safety procedures and overall time to load munitions onto aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

The 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit load crew competitors load an AIM-120 missile at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Oct. 6, 2017. Six of the best load crews competed against each other to determine who was best by demonstrating their loading skill in head-to-head competition. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Pedro Mota)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

Senior Airman Jason Hansford (Right), 63rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew member, and Staff Sgt. Zachary Lees, 63rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit load crew chief, prepare an AIM-120 missile for loading at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. Six different AMUs from Team Luke competed in the 56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew competition which evaluates technical proficiency, safety procedures and overall time to load munitions onto aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

Senior Airman Jonathan Bradley, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew team member, guides munitions onto an F-35A Lightning II at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. Six different AMUs from Team Luke competed in the 56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew competition which evaluates technical proficiency, safety procedures and overall time to load munitions onto aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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56th Fighter Wing Quarterly Load Crew Competition

An Airman assigned to the 310th Aircraft Maintenance Unit prepares a GBU-12 Paveway II bomb during the 56th Fighter Quarterly Load Crew competition at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2017. Though several tools are used to load munitions, often times Airmen have to use their hands for meticulous tasks. (U.S. Air Force photo/SSgt Jensen Stidham)
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Luke Veterinary Treatment Facility keeps working animals; service member’s pets healthy

Nicole Avci, 56th Aerospace Medicine Squadron veterinary treatment facility officer-in-charge, performs a routine checkup on Tarzan, a U.S. Border Patrol K-9, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 4, 2017. The vet clinic’s primary mission is to care for government owned animals, but they also provide services for military family owned cats and dogs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Hensley)
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Luke Veterinary Treatment Facility keeps working animals; service member’s pets healthy

Army Sgt. Ivan Aburto, 56th Aerospace Medicine Squadron veterinary treatment facility NCO-in-charge, draws a vial of blood from Tarzan, a U.S. Border Patrol K-9, during a routine checkup at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 4, 2017. The vet clinic’s primary mission is to care for government owned animals, but they also provide services for military family owned cats and dogs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Hensley)
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EOD Proficiency Training

Senior Airman Tahir Finley, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordinance disposal team member (left) and Airman 1st Class Christian Bish, 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron munitions management apprentice, prepare sticks of dynamite for detonation at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Gila Bend, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017. Throughout the demolition day, EOD Airmen worked together to ensure safety when handling explosives. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook)
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EOD Proficiency Training

Senior Airman Tahir Finley, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordinance disposal team member, searches for bomb fragments after a detonation at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Gila Bend, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017. After detonation, EOD Airmen look for remnants of fragments to see the effects caused by the explosion. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook)
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EOD Proficiency Training

Senior Airman Jared Ball, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordinance disposal team member, performs render safe procedures on a Mark 81 bomb at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Gila Bend, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017. The render safe procedure is the act of applying special EOD procedures, methods and tools to provide the interruption of functions or separations of essential components of unexploded ordnance to prevent an unacceptable detonation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook)
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EOD Proficiency Training

Senior Airman Ryan Gildehaus, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordinance disposal team member, ties down explosives at the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Gila Bend, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017. Before training, EOD Airmen loaded various test explosives onto their vehicles that were used on the range throughout the training day. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook)
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EOD Proficiency Training

The 56th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal team participated in proficiency training at the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Gila Bend, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2017. Proficiency training ensures that EOD Airmen remain capable in using explosives to disarm possible improvised explosive device threats and ultimately save lives. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook)
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Data collection continues to assess flightline environment

Members of Team Luke and Airmen from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine relocated equipment on the flightline to perform air quality testing at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2017. The team members from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine visited Luke for follow-up testing related to the F-35A Lightning II program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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Data collection continues to assess flightline environment

1st Lt. Emilee Senn, F-35 Joint Program Office life support engineer and Megan Steele, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer, annotate data from a kestrel meter at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2017. Senn and Steele worked together to record data for the F-35A Lightning II program and potential factors corresponding to the air quality of Luke and the surrounding area. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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Data collection continues to assess flightline environment

1st Lt. Kelsey Schafer, 711th Human Performance Wing mechanical engineer, checks measurements on a kestrel meter at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2017. Schafer and other team members from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine visited Luke to collect samples to determine the air quality of Luke and the surrounding area for follow-up testing with the F-35A Lightning II program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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Data collection continues to assess flightline environment

Danielle McKenzie-Smith, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine bioenvironmental engineer secures testing equipment on the flightline at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2017. McKenzie-Smith and the team strategically placed equipment to test chemicals, particle sizes and the distribution of particles in the air related to the F-35A Lightning II program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
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Units unite for end of year close out

Airman 1st Class Dimitri Pfeifer, 56th Contracting Squadron contract specialist, performs a labor standards interview with Manuel Reyes, Starkweather Roofing Inc. foreman, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2017. The labor standards interview was part of a site survey at the Security Forces Squadron rooftop. Pfeifer made sure the subcontractors and workers were receiving pay appropriate to the job. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman James Hensley)
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Mateship 100 years

A Royal Australian and U.S. Air Force crew chief shake hands in front of an Australian F-35A Lightning II at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 14, 2017. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Australia-U.S. partnership. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman James Hensley)
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