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  • Photo Slideshow: ‘Pie in the Face’ for a worthy cause

    After the duty day Saturday, Aug. 6, the 162nd Fighter Wing Junior Enlisted Council and senior leaders joined forces to raise funds for JEC programs with a "Pie in the Face" competition in the base dining facility.Click here to see the photo slideshow.

  • Wing members: Get your tickets for Family Appreciation Day!

    Wing members, active and retired, be sure to pick up your tickets for the 162nd Fighter Wing's Family Appreciaiton Day.The last day to buy tickets will be Sept. 11, but don't wait.Click here for a list of ticket sellers and to learn about special events you can sign up for.

  • Support Group exercise goes 'bare'

    Creating a deployed mission support element for a bare, or new, base was the task given to 71 members of the 162nd Mission Support Group during their Golden Falcon deployment exercise July 14-18 at Camp Navaho here."This is the first time Mission Support Group has forward deployed during an

  • Take the Travel Reduction Survey

    Every three years, the 162nd Fighter Wing is required to participate in a travel reduction survey for Pima County Air Quality. The county requires that, at a minimum, 50 percent of all personnel who work at this installation must participate. The month of August is the unit's required participation

  • For RAF pilot the road to the Netherlands goes through Tucson

    Royal Air Force fighter pilots qualified on the F-16 are few and far between but surely exist as a result of exchange programs with the United States and other partner nation air forces. This month the 162nd Fighter Wing here is adding one more to the short list.RAF Flt. Lt. Jean-Claude Guertin, an

  • Air Force releases updated dress and appearance instructions

    The Air Force's instruction on dress and personal appearance recently received an appearance upgrade with the release of the updated instruction on July 18. Air Force Instruction 36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance, received the facelift after several years of interim updates as uniform items

  • 162FW Maintenance Top Performers 3rd Quarter

     From the 800 members of the 162nd Maintenance Group here, six were recognized as this quarter's Top Performers, Jul 15.The quarterly Top Performer awards focus on recognizing maintainers who consistently perform quality work, maintain safe work practices, follow technical data, and engage in

  • JEC delivers cool treats to wing members

    JEC members regularly conduct activities to help 162nd Guardsmen and the larger Tucson community through organizing food and blood drives, volunteering at worthy causes like Habitat for Humanity and highway cleanup, and also spearheading morale-boosting activities such as the Haunted Hanger for Wing

  • Wing pilots set flying record

    Four members of the 162nd Fighter Wing flew with the largest number of F-16 flying hours ever flown in a four-ship formation - a total of 14,834.3 - in 4th of July flybys this year.The flybys, which took place over Independence Day celebrations in Sierra Vista and Mt. Lemmon, Ariz., were flown by

  • Guard members have one-stop information shop for benefits

    Officials with the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have created a one-stop website for Guard members to access and administer their service benefits-related information in a secure manner, said the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.In a November 2010 memorandum to all