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  • AETC small business pros attend training week

    The Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs, in partnership with the Small Business Administration, sponsored Small Business Training Week 17 from April 3-7, 2017, at the Sheraton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 600 government employees were in attendance.The event featured

  • Fitness Warrior

    Fitness is a key component in achieving Luke’s mission: building the future of airpower. With fitness, Airmen are able to achieve physical and spiritual health. For Sherri Biringer, 56th Force Support Squadron fitness specialist supervisor, her love of fitness grew through a type of workout called

  • Hitting rock bottom: One officer's tale of resilience and recovery

    As a young boy growing up on Coronado Naval Air Station in San Diego, I used to watch my father fly A-6s in the Navy. His father had died at a young age, so he raised us the best way he knew how…through physical discipline, mental strength, and zero emotion. But he loved his three boys more than

  • 'Ragnar' tests endurance of 58th MXS Airmen

    With temperatures nearing 100 degrees and sleep deprivation setting in, 12 Airmen from the 58th Maintenance Squadron powered through a 200-mile relay race known as “Ragnar.”The race goes for more than 24 hours, broken into segments. Each member of the team competes in a segment, and then switches

  • Airmen’s Week: Changing the Culture of Airmen

    (This is the second in a four-part series highlighting Airmen’s Week and the Military Training Instructors selected to be facilitators of a curriculum striving to inspire professionalism and excellence in the Air Force’s newest Airmen. Tech. Sgt. Roque Martinez hails from Sinajana, Guam and is

  • Tuskegee Airman shares legacy at base Air Show

    Lt. Col. James H. Harvey, an original Tuskegee Airman, tells what it take to break barriers at the Maxwell air show, Saturday, April 8, 2017. Harvey was a World War II fighter pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group, the first all-African American squadron.

  • U.S. and French display continued military partnership

    On the eve of the air show at Maxwell, leadership from the U.S. Air Force and French Air Force, along with River Region partners, gathered in Montgomery’s Oakwood Cemetery, to pay tribute to their predecessors who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War I, April 7th, 2017. Every year, British

  • Memorial held for fallen battlefield Airman

    Members of the 37th Training Wing honored the legacy of Lt. Col. William “Bill” Schroeder, former 342 Training Squadron commander at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas April 7, 2017. On April 8, 2016, Schroeder recognized a perilous situation developing and reacted swiftly by putting himself

  • STEP promotion surprises defender

    April Fool’s Day came with a pleasant surprise this year for Tech. Sgt. Richard Bates, 47th Security Forces Squadron flight chief. Bates was selected by Brig. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th Air Force commander, for promotion to Technical Sergeant under the Stripes for Exceptional Performers (STEP)