12 Sep 2014

Luke weapons maintainers provide munitions for the mission

Most everything that can go 'boom' on base has to go through the 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron here. The 56th EMS weapons maintenance Airmen manage munitions used by various squadrons on base including the 56th Security Forces Squadron, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal and the fighter squadrons.The 56th EMS mission is

11 Sep 2014

SERE specialists facilitate training for Army, Air Force

You're at work going about your usual business ---- as a military member, that may mean going on patrol with your squad or heading to a nearby depot for a resupply ---- when suddenly, you find yourself separated from your group. You are in an unfamiliar wilderness. You only have a few things in your pocket, and food and water is not among them. You

10 Sep 2014

Commentary: We will not be broken

Editor's Note: Charisse McNeal is an Air Force veteran who served as a medical technician then administration for over seven years in the late 1980s. She began working with Air Force Recruiting Service in Arlington, Va. in 2009.On Sept. 11, 2001, as I poured my coffee and dressed my kid, read my newspaper and giggled with my co-workers, I wondered

9 Sep 2014

SOS shortens to increase attendance

To align with the chief of staff of the Air Force's vision to give more company grade officers the opportunity to attend Squadron Officer School, Squadron Officer College is changing the school's course term length from eight to five weeks starting in fiscal year 2015. The school challenges students from differing specialties to step out of their

9 Sep 2014

2001 graduate laid to rest at Academy

A 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and instructor pilot with the 49th Fighter Training Squadron was laid to rest at the Academy Cemetery Sept. 9.Maj. Richard Schafer III, 35, was the chief of standardization and evaluation for the squadron at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.Stephanie Taylor, Schafer's sister, lamented Schafer's passing during a eulogy