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June 5, 2015                                                                                                      SPOTLIGHT                                                                                 Thunderbolt
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At-risk students get Luke primer

          6WRU\DQGSKRWRVE\                        The students at Children First Academy                                                   Maj. Jason Chugg, 310th Fighter Squadron pilot, shows the children the F-16 Fighter
              Senior Airman                        and their families are at the poverty line                                                  Falcon May 19 at Luke Air Force Base. Children First Academy of Phoenix brought
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                 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs  school aims to provide stability and hope
                                                   for children who live amid a world of chaos
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are some who only dream about making it            wants the children to know they can make
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                                                      “The military members that you saw
   That’s where the Children First Academy         today were raised in the same bad environ-
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gage students as critical thinkers, problem        out to be better than they were before they
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students from the school providing a tour of       PLOLWDU\PHPEHUVDVPRWLYDWLRQµ
the base and a look at the different career
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Wing’s mission; to train the world’s greatest      Control tower and saw how the Airmen
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                                                                                           don Roth,                                           NHHS SLORWV VDIH E\ PDQDJLQJ WKH ÁRZ RI              details about the F-35 and encouraged the
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                                                                                           chief of                                            URQ &DSW %UDQGRQ 5RWK WK )LJKWHU                    “Whatever you want to be, you can be
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                                                                                           shows                                               WRWKHOLIHVXSSRUWRIÀFHDQGVKRZHGWKHP                   knows, maybe one of you guys is a future
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                                                                                           GUHQ¶V)LUVW                                       children got to experience what pilots see                      The tour was a success and the children
                                                                                           Academy                                             RQDUHJXODUEDVLV                                         had an amazing time visiting Luke and see-
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                                                                                           tour May 19                                         Lightning II, which they agreed was their
                                                                                           of Luke Air                                         IDYRULWH SDUW RI WKH WRXU $XVWUDOLDQ 0DM               “I know for a fact that the children will
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                                                                                                                                               Unit partner nation liaison, gave more                       to thank Luke AFB for allowing us to tour
                                                                                                                                                                                                            their facilities and giving us a closer look
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