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  • Remembering POW-MIA with 24-hour Vigil Run/Walk

    As the Oklahoma sun rose over Tinker Air Force Base on Sept. 12, members of the community gathered at the track for the opening ceremony of the first 24-hour POW-MIA Vigil Run/Walk.This year’s 24-hour walk was a new addition, prefacing annual 9/11 POW-MIA Memorial 5K/2K Run/Ruck/Walk, which has been

  • Tech. Sgt. Brewer speaks at B-52 resiliency tactical pause

    U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein recently said in a note to commanders that suicide is an adversary killing more Airmen than any enemy on the planet.In order to address rising suicide rates in the Air Force, a resiliency tactical pause was ordered with each wing at liberty to handle

  • Tinker Firefighters negotiate new Local Supplement Agreement

    Members of the Tinker Fire Department, along with 72nd Air Base Wing Commander Col. Paul Filcek, gathered in Fire House #1 on Sept. 6 for the signing of a renegotiated Local Supplement Agreement between Tinker Air Force Base and the International Association of Fire Fighters Local F-211, Tinker

  • Intentional prairie restoration

    The tall grasses lining Mitchell Avenue are a sign of Tinker Air Force Base rebuilding a robust, native ecosystem to benefit everyone who lives and works on and off the installation.Tinker is restoring land back to its original prairie, and though it is a different approach to managing urban land,

  • Picnic with Protectors

    Staff Sgt. Dakota Tillery, 72nd Security Forces Squadron, shows his sons, Aiden and Abel, the inside of one of the 72nd Security Forces' squad cars during the Picnic with Protectors and Public Works Personnel at the Joe B. Barnes Regional Park Sept. 12. Tinker's first responders, including 72SFS,

  • Unverfehrt earns 72nd Air Base Wing Wildcatter award

    Capt. Gavin Unverfehrt, Airfield Operations flight commander with 72nd Operations Support Squadron, was recently honored with a Wildcatter award from 72nd Air Base Wing Commander Col. Paul Filcek. Unverfehrt is responsible for the safe and efficient execution of Air Traffic Control, Airfield

  • D’Angelo talks good leadership at Meet the Hero Night

     The importance of good leadership was the heart of 448th Supply Chain Management Wing Director Dennis D’Angelo’s speech during Home Away From Home’s Meet the Hero series at the Midwest City Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 29.“We’re all leaders in this together and I think that spans over everyone

  • Retired Tech Sgt. honored for lifetime of giving back

    The spirit of giving back is something that stuck with retired Technical Sgt. JD Miller early in his military career.Miller enlisted in the Air Force in 1954 with his first overseas assignment as a radio operator taking he and his wife, Clara, overseas.  “When I was 22 years old in England, a family

  • 38th CEIG hosts airspace security drone demonstration

     A small drone is flying over a military installation, when suddenly, like a bird of prey, an X-3 Drone Hunter swoops down and shoots a net at the drone, ensnaring it in the webbing and carries it back to the controller on the ground.  Sound like a scene out of the latest spy thriller movie? No. It

  • Air Force marks 72 years since official creation

      On Sept. 18, the United States Air Force will become 72 years old. Yet while this anniversary represents more than seven decades of the Air Force operating as a single organized entity, its history as one of the premier air powers in the world began at the turn of the twentieth century.President