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  • Living on-base or off, Air Force highly recommends renters insurance

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Airmen and their families leasing or renting housing on or off the installation need to be aware of the importance of renters insurance.Unforeseen fires, floods, theft or accidents can occur in anyone’s residence and Airmen need to understand

  • Swingers sink Davy Jones for championship

    The perennially powerful Swingers bowed out of intramural softball for good Aug. 17 with a perfect “10” performance – their 10th base championship. The Swingers fought back out of the losers bracket, beating Davy Jones twice, to emerge as the 2017 Intramural Softball League champions. Longtime coach

  • Vietnam vet remains young at heart

    He’s 80 years old this year, but retired Lt. Col. William Melton has an ambiance about him that would have an innocent bystander believing he was in his twenties. The 37-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps originally hails from Marysville, California, but has called Oklahoma – and Tinker

  • Aircraft painter saves life thanks to CPR training

    Resuscitating an individual can be a pressure-filled situation – no pun intended. Like most people who earn CPR certification, Tinker veteran Harold Isenhower hoped a situation would never present itself where the training and skills he learned were necessary.An aircraft painter with the 566th

  • Wildcatters hold Commander's Call

    Col. Kenyon Bell held his first Commander’s Call for the 72nd Air Base Wing Aug. 16 in the Tinker Auditorium. Presented as a “meet and greet,” Col. Bell applauded the wing’s successes, especially with the hard work put into Tinker’s largest attended air show in May, and encouraged all to remain

  • Joining forces: Cooperation is key in mutual aid agreement

    Several separate small patches of knee-high grass burning beside Interstate 40 traffic south of Tinker Gate earlier this month weren’t necessarily a big threat when they flared up. They were burning between two stretches of pavement – I-40 and its service road.But plenty of drivers were calling 911

  • August 1945: Bldg. 3001 briefly on the brink

    For a brief window of time in August 1945, Tinker Air Force Base’s cavernous Bldg. 3001 faced the prospect of having no future.Two days after Japan announced its surrender in World War II, the Douglas Aircraft Co. ceased all production in its 1.7 million-square-foot, red-brick behemoth built to

  • No technical edge in cyberspace, director says

    Unlike the competition for the world’s best fighter jets and other weapon systems, the United States has no technical edge when it comes to defending the nation in cyberspace, the Air Force Sustainment Center’s director of engineering said recently.“This is an area where the United States does not

  • 72nd Medical Group extends office hours

    The 72nd Medical Group will be begin offering extended hours next month to better accommodate the needs of patients who desire appointments later in the afternoon.Starting Tuesday, Sept. 5, the Family Health, Pediatrics, and Flight Medicine clinics will have appointments available until 4:30 p.m.,

  • TINKER HISTORY: Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine profile

    Pratt & Whitney’s J57 engine is a twin-spool, axial flow turbojet engine with standard and afterburning configuration. The J57 was the first turbojet design for the company and represented a technological leap in the field of jet engine design which was well received and truly revolutionized air