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  • New NG911 center opening this fall

    Tinker Air Force Base is geared up to begin Next Generation 911 service this fall in a new Emergency Communications Center that will bring state-of-the-art dispatch and incident management capabilities to emergency and security personnel.The approximately $3 million center will combine the dispatch

  • 5K run honors Shapiro, TACAMO

    Chiefs and chief selects run in formation around the TACAMO complex during the Howie Shapiro 5K run Aug. 18 at Herc Park. (Air Force photo by Kelly White)

  • Air Force Selects Airmen for the 2017 All-Air Force Golf Championship

    The Air Force has selected candidates to participate in the 2017 All-Air Force Golf Championship to be held in Millington, Tennessee from Sept. 4-9, 2017. If selected, candidates will move on to represent the Air Force at the 2017 Armed Forces Championship in Millington, Sept. 10-15, 2017.

  • 40 years of service

    Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, presents Jeffrey Allen with a Certificate of Service, recognizing his executive director for 40 years of federal service prior to his weekly staff meeting Aug. 10 in Bldg. 3001. Allen, who joined the Air Force in July 1977 at the age

  • TINKER HISTORY: Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

    The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star is a jet trainer with origins in Lockheed’s P-80 pursuit jet developed by the United States toward the end of World War II. The general characteristics of both jets are tricycle landing gear; a long straight wing with wingtip fuel tanks and rounded, vertical tail with

  • Congressman visits Tinker

    Lt. Col. Keith Quick, 72nd Security Forces Squadron commander, right, Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, second from left, and Col. Kenyon Bell, 72nd Air Base Wing commander, discuss perimeter security issues with U.S. Rep. Steve Russell, R-Okla., during a brief visit

  • Bioenvironmental Engineering makes changes to improve fit-testing

    Tinker AFB has the largest Respiratory Protection Program in the Air Force and fit-testing is a critical step in ensuring the safe use of respiratory protection in industrial work areas and military-unique settings. With approximately 2,600 personnel requiring annual industrial fit tests and 800

  • Tinker spotlight on OETA

    OETA host Will Schwab takes us behind the scenes of some of Oklahoma’s favorite, as well as hidden, treasures. We will meet the people who make it possible for the rest of us to enjoy these wonderful additions to our cultural landscape. We will see a side of these locations that many of us have

  • Navy commandeers Rec League crown

    An early upset forced the top-seed VQ-7 RoughNecks to battle their way out of the losers bracket, but they left no doubt Aug. 8 about their status as the best team in the Rec League.The Navy team drubbed NGC, Northrop Grumman Corporate, in the doubleheader finals, 14-3 and 11-2, to convincingly

  • Critical phases of flight

    RAF MILDENHALL -- Total Force Citizen Airmen from the 507th Air Refueling Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma demonstrate flight and refueling capabilities of the KC-135R Stratotanker while augmenting the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, England, July 1-29 in support of Operation