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Vol. 11, No. 2  Serving Southern Arizona’s military community, including Davis-Monthan Air Force Base                                 February 2018

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INSIDE D-M open house moves to March 2019

STORIES                                    The 2018 Thunder and Lightning Over        give Arizona the chance to host an air          derbirds are the United States Air Force’s
 Kwast sends message, 2                Arizona Open House slated for March 17-       show annually by establishing alternating       premiere aerial demonstration team.
 MWD, handler deployed, 3              18 has been rescheduled to March 23-24,       years for Luke Air Force Base and D-M
 AF dentist aids Puerto                2019.                                         open houses.                                       For more information, call the 355th
Rico, 4                                                                                                                               Fighter Wing Public Affairs office at 520-
 Resilient Airman, 6                      The air show was moved to better ac-          The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will         228-3406 or email 355wgpa@us.af.mil.
 Your child’s mouth, 8                 commodate performer requirements and          headline the 2019 D-M air show.The Thun-
 Firefighters, 12                                                                                                                                                   Courtesy of 355th FWPA
 A-10 demo returns, 16

FEATURE

        Senior Airman Betty Chevalier

A-10 DEMO RETURNS
                           See Page 16

  Continue to get Davis-Monthan                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Courtesy photo
       Air Force Base latest news
      and information from these        Luke Days is March 17-18 at Luke Air Force Base. Headlining the show is the U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerial demonstration team.

    sources: http://www.aerotech-       Luke Days welcomes Navy Blue Angels
     news.com/davis-monthanafb
                                           The 56th Fighter Wing has moved Luke       time in seven years for the 2018 air show       cated to Luke Days 2018 providing the most
                and social media        Days to March 17-18 in order to ensure        season.                                         up to date information as it becomes avail-
                                        the public a more robust and dynamic                                                          able: www.luke.af.mil/2018-Luke-Days.
                 Desert Lightning News  experience. The event is free and open to        The F-35 Lightning II and the F-16
                                        the public.                                   Fighting Falcon will be among the static           For more information, call 56th Fighter
       Date of publication                                                            displays. The schedule of aerial performers     Wing Public Affairs at 623-856-6011 or
                                           The upcoming air show marks Luke’s         and full list of aircraft on static display is  email 56fw.pa@us.af.mil.
       First Friday                     77th year of operation since its founding in  being finalized.
                                        1941. The show will be headlined, for the                                                        For story and more photos on the A-10C
             of the month               first time since 1992, by the U.S. Navy Blue     Luke welcomed more than 425,000 spec-        Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team, see
      Submission deadline               Angels aerial demonstration team.             tators during the air show weekend in 2016      Page 16.
                                                                                      and expects to host that many Arizonans
15th day of the month                      The A-10C Thunderbolt II Demonstra-        again.                                                                            Courtesy of 56th FWPA
                                        tion Team will perform demos for the first
prior to date of publication                                                             Luke AFB’s website features a page dedi-

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All military branches are included
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      deborah.leuthold@us.af.mil
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