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  • OKC Navy Days events support local Sailors

    The sixth annual Gardner Tanenbaum Holdings OKC Navy Golf Classic was held June 10 at the Greens Country Club. The golf tournament is just one of many events hosted by OKC Navy Days throughout the year to support local Sailors and their families.The OKC Navy Golf Classic is different from other golf

  • ‘Deployed Families’ dinner provides support

    Tinker Air Force Base is always looking for ways to provide tangible support to the families of deployed members. Col Eddie Taylor, Vice Commander of the 72nd Air Base Wing, says the new “Deployed Families” dinner is one such way the base is trying to provide that support. Thanks to the Tinker

  • Photos: Tinker’s first Micro Markets now open

    The first Micro Markets opened this week in Bldgs. 5929 and 5947. Micro Markets are mini-marts housed in the bottom of dormitories that are accessible 24/7. Consumers are able to make purchases with cash, card or credit through a key fob loyalty program. Partnering with the Army & Air Force Exchange

  • Luck is just around the corner

    Luck can be found about seven miles west of Tinker Air Force Base.Since Dec. 2017, Adam Ely, and his wife, Toni, of Choctaw, have operated Hard Luck Automotive Services, located at 616 SW 29th St. in Oklahoma City, with the premise, “if you can afford the parts, we’ll fix your car for free.” Toni

  • Blue Angels flight ‘a Nguyen’ for teacher

    The Navy Blue Angels recently traveled to Tinker for the 2019 Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show, but before their weekend of performances they wanted to do something special to highlight a community influencer working with youth in Oklahoma.Philip Nguyen, Kindergarten through 6th grade music

  • Around the Air Force Sustainment Center: Ingenuity under pressure

    Bimonthly exercises keep the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group’s Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Airmen ready to perform aircraft battle damage repair anytime and anywhere.The exercises strengthen the unit’s capability of deploying a highly trained and flexible mobile force to rapidly assess and

  • Seeking mental health treatment

    “Dealing with a traumatic event from 2011 in Afghanistan, I realize now that I probably needed help long before 2018, but at the time I felt like I’d figured out how to control the ghosts in my head. I forced myself to keep them at bay, and instead of dealing with my problems, I just let them

  • ‘We just have higher standards’

    When it comes to public health and safety in military commissaries, the Department of Defense has unique standards to match the stores’ special patronage – the men and women serving in uniform and their families.It’s those standards that set commissaries apart from commercial grocers, said Army Col.

  • Filcek takes command of 72nd ABW

    Sometimes change can be hard, but it can also be positive.On June 7, the 72nd Air Base Wing welcomed incoming Commander Col. Paul Filcek during a Change of Command Ceremony at the Tinker Event Center. Filcek assumed command of the wing from Col. Kenyon Bell.About 400 people, including friends,

  • Town Hall provides housing issue updates

    Base residents were invited to the Tinker Club recently for a residents-only Town Hall which provided updates on the ongoing improvements being made to base housing as well as the legal options that residents have for damaged property reimbursement.Members of Tinker Air Force base leadership and