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  • Friends from the north renovate Tucson's Air Guard base

    Air Guardsmen here are accustomed to helping partner nations improve their F-16 operations, but last month the 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson International Airport received a helping hand from Canadian construction engineers who worked to improve the base infrastructure.Having trained pilots from more

  • Tucson wins ANG's highest food service honor

    For the third time in 18 years, the men and women who feed nearly 800 Airmen every drill weekend at Tucson's airport will bring home the Senior Master Sgt. Kenneth W. Disney Award and the title of "best dining facility in the Air Guard."The dining facility's triumph, announced March 22 by the Air

  • ANG's top recycling program resides in Tucson

    If it can be reused, recycled or reduced, the 162nd Fighter Wing here leads the Air National Guard in diverting material from landfills with its robust environmental programs.Air Force officials recognized the base's environmental management office at the Air Force Environmental and Occupational

  • AZANG honors 'best of the best' at OAY banquet

    Members of the Arizona Air National Guard descended upon Tucson during the March Unit Training Assembly to name its top performers during the Outstanding Airmen of the Year banquet held here March 3, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort.Two of the award-winning Airmen were nominees from the 162nd

  • F-35 public hearings for Tucson concluded; comments still accepted

    The U.S. Air Force hosted about 300 Southern Arizonans over the course of three public hearings, Feb. 21-23, to solicit comments on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed basing of F-35A Lightning II aircraft at Tucson International Airport.Since late 2009, the 162nd Fighter Wing at

  • 162nd a finalist for prestigious food services award

    Hanging in military dining facilities around the world are placards that read, "Through these doors pass the best fed troops." At the 162nd Fighter Wing dining facility here the sign is more than a greeting - it's virtually a statement of fact.The Arizona Air National Guard unit at Tucson

  • Arizona Diamondbacks slide into base for prayer breakfast

    The 162nd Fighter Wing Chaplain's office hosted two members of the Arizona Diamondbacks professional baseball team, the team's chaplain and a retired Major League Baseball player during the wing's annual prayer breakfast held at Tucson International Airport here Feb. 12.Stephen Drew and Ian Kennedy,

  • Dutch F-16s 'Go Guard' for new paint job

    This month, painters from the Air National Guard Paint Facility in Sioux City, Iowa rolled out the first of six F-16s from the Royal Netherlands Air Force that will be receiving a new paint job. This job marks the first opportunity the western Iowa based paint facility has had to service