• Standing ready to serve her country

    COVID-19 has taken the world by surprise, forcing isolation, social distancing, and sacrifice. For one Reservist, the Nightingale Pledge and duty to her country ran parallel in her decision to help combat the virus. Maj. Lizy Windsor, 944th Medical Squadron clinical nurse, was prepared to support

  • Luke, Arizona ANG salute Phoenix

    Luke Air Force Base and the Arizona’s Air National Guard honored Arizona front line responders with a 15-aircraft flyover today, May 1, 2020.

  • Face masks of Luke AFB

    Staff Sgt. Alexandra Haytasingh, 944th Security Forces Squadron fire team leader, shops for groceries April 16, 2020, in the Commissary at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. As of April 10, the Commissary and Base Exchange require store employees and customers to wear a face covering to enter, work or shop

  • Luke AFB salutes essential workers with flyover

    Luke Air Force Base, to include the 56th Fighter Wing and the 944th Fighter Wing, along with the Arizona Air National Guard 161st Air Refueling Wing will honor Arizona’s front line COVID-19 responders with a community flyover May 1, 2020.

  • Second wave of 944th FW medics deploy to aid in coronavirus response

    Over a dozen medical personnel from the 944th Medical and Aeromedical Staging Squadrons were mobilized this week in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Nurses and medical technicians with highly sought after skills for COVID-19 response departed Luke Air Force Base, April 22 to join

  • The Doolittle Raid

    A little over four months after the initial bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States began secretly planning a reprisal attack on the Japanese Empire. In fact, the initial plan was already underway and the U.S. Army Air Forces had begun to train their pilots for this incredibly

  • 944th Fighter Wing continues the mission with reduced-manning UTA

    This weekend was anything but ordinary for Reserve Citizen Airmen of the 944th Fighter Wing. What would have typically been two days of in-person training for the team of over two thousand members, turned out to be a quiet weekend. It was replaced by virtual, computer-based training for some, while