Early Life and Military Service
Luckey was born and raised in Billings, Montana. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He later served as an Artist-Illustrator (a specialty now called "Visual Information Specialist" ) with the NATO Allied Occupation Forces in Europe and North Africa from 1953 to 1954 and, finally, with the Strategic Air Command from 1954–'57. Among Luckey's Air Force duty stations was Nouasseur Air Base/a/k/a Nouasseur Air Depot a nuclear bomber strike base and nuclear weapon storage depot south of Casablanca, Morocco. There he served with the Third Air Force Air Material Command, Southern District ( now part of the Air Force Materiel Command). Additional duty stations were Lackland AFB and Kelly AFB (now collectively part of Joint Base San Antonio) as well as Portland AFB (now known as Portland Air National Guard Base). He remained an Air Force reservist through the mid-1960s.
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