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Photos by Staff Sgt. Amber Carter
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1 e L 1. Airman 1st Class Melanie Morgan, left,
eapons xhibition oad technician, Senior Airman Zamia Lopez, 61st
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xhibition
63rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load
AMU weapons load technician, and Staff Sgt.
Cindy Guillen, 56th Component Maintenance
Squadron weapons lead load chief, partici-
highlights f emal e maint ainers tion March 25 at Luke Air Force Base. The
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highlights female maintainers
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highlights f
pate in the Women of Weapons Load Exhibi-
team loaded a GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guid-
ed bomb on an F-35A Lightning II as part of a
Women’s History Month event.
2. Tech. Sgt. Joyce Osornio-Magaña, 944th
Fighter Wing weapons load technician, par-
8 ticipates in an exhibition load March 25 at
Luke Air Force Base. The Women of Weap-
ons Exhibition Load involved three teams
made up of all women from different back-
grounds, units, and ranks, honoring female
maintainers for Women’s History Month.
3. Senior Airman Riley St. John, 310th Air-
craft Maintenance Unit weapons load tech-
nician, secures a missile March 25 at Luke
Air Force Base. St. John participated in the
Women of Weapons Load Exhibition as part
of a three-person all-female team, loading a
missile and a bomb on an F-16 Fighting Fal-
con. This load was the AMU’s way of high-
lighting the capabilities of female Airmen as
part of a Women’s History Month event.

4. Senior Airman Felicia Richmond, 56th
Component Maintenance Squadron weap-
ons load technician, participates in the
Women of Weapons Exhibition Load March
25 at Luke Air Force Base. Richmond was
part of a three-person team made of female
Airmen from different units, highlighting the
capabilities of women in the weapons load
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career field.
5. Osornio-Magaña, front, and Senior Airman
Jocelyn Zavala, 62nd Aircraft Maintenance
Unit weapons load technician, participate in
a Women of Weapons Exhibition Load March
25 at Luke Air Force Base.
6. Osornio-Magaña wires the guidance sec-
tion of a GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided
bomb March 25 at Luke Air Force Base. Os-
ornio-Magaña participated in the Women of
Weapons Exhibition Load, which involved
loading a GBU-12 and an AIM-120 Advanced
Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile on an F-35A
Lightning II.
7. Guillen loads a GBU-12 Paveway II laser-
3 4 5 6 7 guided bomb on an F-35A Lightning II during
an exhibition load March 25 at Luke Air Force
Base. Guillen spoke about participating in
the load to bring attention to the fact that
only three women from her career field have
made it to the rank of chief master sergeant
since the inception of the Air Force.
8. Airmen from multiple 56th Fighter Wing
and 944th FW aircraft maintenance units par-
ticipate in the Women of Weapons Exhibition
Load March 25 at Luke Air Force Base. The
exhibition load involved three teams made
up of women from different backgrounds,
units and ranks loading weapons on the F-
35A Lightning II and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Diversity allows the Air Force to capitalize on
all available talent by enabling a culture of
inclusion.