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  • Diminishing the ‘human factor’ one Airman at a time

    The concerted efforts of Air Force safety officials and aircraft maintainers to remove the human element from preventable mishaps are deeply rooted in a humanitarian ethos - the idea that every Airman deserves to go home safe at night.Maintenance Resource Management, or MRM, is the safety movement

  • Hero Video: Capt. Humberto Nieto

    Click here to see the 162nd Fighter Wing's own Capt. Humberto Nieto in a video featured at the Air Education and Training Command Symposium last month.

  • Without POL pilots are pedestrians

    Each of the four lumbering, green tanker trucks milled about the 162nd Fighter Wing flightline as their drivers searched for jets in need of fuel. The 6,000-gallon tankers could each refuel five jets; but on any given day more than 54,000 gallons of fuel would be loaded onto many more. The fuel from

  • Former pro-ball player says Air Guard is his winning team

    Baseball fans in Tucson may root for the Tucson Toros at Hi Corbett field. They may even make the trek to see their favorite major league team. But only in their wildest dreams would they rub shoulders on the field with some of the biggest names in baseball.For one member here at the 162nd Fighter

  • Photo Feature: Wing Picnic 2010

    Hundreds of 162nd Fighter Wing members, retirees, family members and friends converged on Udall Park in Tucson, Ariz., April 11 for the unit's annual picnic.Click here to see the photo slide show.

  • The 162nd Fighter Wing at night

    Pilots brief, crew chiefs launch, airplanes fly, Security Forces protect, aircraft get painted, components are repaired, and firefighters respond - all in a night's work. For the majority of wing members who work day shift it may come as a surprise that the 162nd is often as active at night as it is

  • NCO volunteers for ‘Tucson Monsoon’ season

    Tucson Monsoon season is approaching and promises to bring a different kind of storm - and it has nothing to do with the weather. In his spare time, Staff Sgt. Michael Holly of the 162nd Fighter Wing here is the assistant coach for the Tucson Monsoon, a women's full-tackle football team and part of

  • Guardswoman makes history at 162nd

    Keeping the world's most advanced F-16s up and running isn't a "man's" job - but rather a woman's. At the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson Airport a fleet of F-16 Desert Falcon's from the United Arab Emirates Air Force are maintained under the supervision of Senior Master

  • Armament flight puts the ‘fight’ in Fighting Falcons

    Air Guardsmen in charge of "alternate" mission equipment, or AME, know their mission is "primary" for the F-16 Fighting Falcons that take off here daily. Airmen at the162nd Armament Flight maintain the F-16's complex matrix of pylons, launchers, adapters and other equipment used to hold bombs and

  • What life would be like without AGE

    A mighty roar erupts close by; but the area is shrouded from sight. Into the summer sky with a jet blast strong and bold, an F-16 Fighting Falcon climbs quickly above the buildings that once blocked it from view. In stark contrast to the mighty roaring Falcon, the attention now focuses on the quiet