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  • Pilot For A Day Affords Child Opportunity to Learn about Aviation

    Markino Mctaggrait, a 10-year-old Arizonan suffering from sickle cell disease, toured the base Jan. 29 to learn more about aviation through the Pilot for a Day program.The purpose of the program is to provide children with illnesses an enjoyable day completely devoted to them and their interest in

  • Historic 'Liberty Belle' bomber reincarnate to fly at D-M air show

    The pride of Don Brooks and the 390th Memorial Museum Foundation in Tucson -- a restored, wartime-configured B-17G aircraft -- will be on display at the Aerospace and Arizona Days air show here March 20-21, 2010. "Liberty Belle," as the bomber reincarnate is called, is a product of history. On May

  • Tucson community members launch F-35 support project

    The 162nd Fighter Wing Minuteman Committee, a group of Southern Arizona business and community leaders dedicated to sustaining the mission of the Arizona Air National Guard at Tucson International Airport, launched an F-35 Lightning II public support campaign Jan. 22.The project, titled Tucson

  • Annual Awards Ceremony and Medallion Ceremony

    The Desert Lightning Team's First Sergeants Council presents Operation Excellence "Best of the Best 2009". The Medallion Ceremony will be held Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. at the Base Theater, and the 2009 Annual Awards Ceremony will be held Jan. 30 at the Mirage Club. Social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m.,

  • 48th Rescue Squadron Returns from Afghanistan

    After spending four and a half months deployed in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Airmen from the 48th Rescue Squadron returned home Jan. 16. It is with distinct pride I have the opportunity to write about the phenomenal activities and achievements the Airmen from the 48th