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  • Welcome to Tinker’s Air & Space Show

       Welcome to the 2019 Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show and Tinker Air Force Base Open House. What a thrilling time! We are honored to open Tinker’s gates June 1-2 to showcase America’s airpower, punctuated with performances by the Blue Angels, the Navy’s premier aerial demonstration team.In

  • Blue Angel brings it home

    U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Andre Webb, a Lawton native, will be returning to the Sooner State to fly in Tinker Air Force Base’s bi-annual Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show this weekend. “Knowing that I know of a lot of people in the crowd will be pretty exciting,” he said. “It will be a similar feeling

  • Airmen and Sailors graduate from Tinker Airman Leadership School

     Airman Leadership SchoolThirty-seven Airmen and two Sailors recently graduated from Tinker’s Airman Leadership School.Graduates are: 138th Force Support Squadron Senior Airman Gavin PaytonSenior Airman Drake Moffitt 507th Logistics Readiness SquadronSenior Airman Berenice Pitre 552nd Air Control

  • HAWC keeps Tinker Healthy

    (Editor’s note: This article is an installment in a Tinker Take Off series focused on highlighting the work of Tinker helping agencies.)

  • World War II Veteran tours Tinker

    World War II veteran Robert Henley and his granddaughter, Melissa Fullerton, toured Tinker Air Force Base May 29. The 90-year-old spent three years in the Army, followed by a 30-year career working as a machinist here from 1952-1982. In addition to touring the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and

  • Tinker air shows instill family legacy

    For 507th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Specialist Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason, working at Tinker Air Force Base is a family tradition, and attending the air shows at Tinker were a memorable part of her childhood.Her father worked on base for nearly 30 years, and would return from work with the

  • Child safety tips for Tinker’s Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show

    1) Ensure that your child has a wrist band with your contact information written on it. If wrist bands are unavailable, use a permanent marker on the upper arm.2) Take a picture of your child on the day of the event to help you remember what they’re wearing and to help workers identify your child.3)

  • Bunch to command AFMC

    Lt. Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. will become the next commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

  • Memorial Day A time for remembrance

    Teammates,Last month, with the passing of Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the last of the Doolittle Raiders, we were reminded of the extent of bravery and sacrifice required of all Airmen. Colonel Cole, along with his brothers-in-arms, flew their B-25s off an aircraft carrier on a one-way mission to Japan just