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  • Wildcatters catch the rabbit during

    72nd Medical Group Commander Col. Christopher Grussendorf leads fellow Wildcatters on a short run around the Airman Leadership School soccer field during the May 31 Wildcatter PT. (Air Force photo by Kelly White)

  • EDMX: handling controlled chaos on remote

    When an Air Force plane suffers serious damage anywhere in the world, commanders have the option to deploy an elite asset for getting a wounded warbird back into battle or flying it back home for more intensive repairs: Aircraft Battle Damage Repair teams. The 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group’s

  • Visit from the Pentagon

    Jeffrey Allen, Air Force Sustainment Center executive director, left, and Maj. Gen. Mark Johnson, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex commander, show plans for the future site of the KC-46 sustainment campus to Tim Bridges, assistant deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering and force

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Aircraft

    The Boeing C-97 “Stratofreighter” was designed as a four-engine cargo and troop transport using components and design features from two previous Boeing designs, the B-29 and B-50 bombers, to make an entirely new transport aircraft. The large “pinched” fuselage is formed by taking two B-29 fuselage

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: Capt. Lillian Kinkella Keil, AF hero

    For National Nurse Appreciation week, I get the honor of telling you about one of our greatest military heroes – medical or otherwise, Capt. Lillian Kinkella Keil. One of the most decorated women in American military history, this nurse flew on 425 combat evacuation missions in World War II and

  • Boom Shop tour

    Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, recently toured the Boom Shop at the Boeing Facility in Seattle to review the progress on the KC-46 “Pegasus,” which will be sustained by the AFSC and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Escorting

  • Real ID Act enforcement to begin July 10

    The state of Oklahoma has been on a limited extension for the REAL ID Act from the Department of Homeland Security through June 6. Unless an additional extension is granted by DHS, enforcement of the REAL ID Act will begin for Oklahoma IDs July 10. On that date a current, non-compliant Oklahoma ID

  • AFSC/CC Message: Honoring an enduring symbol

    AFSC Airmen,Every year June 14 is a special, nationally recognized day to honor our flag, which remains an enduring symbol of hope, liberty, and freedom.On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution establishing the United States flag as having 13 stripes alternating between seven

  • Maintaining for the upcoming OC-ALC AS9110 audit

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex will receive an external transition audit for Aerospace Standard 9110C to ensure that the OC-ALC is still meeting stringent “industry standards” for an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul facility. Two auditors from Great Western Registrar will visit

  • Tinker Family Orientation

    Glenn Grubis, with the Airman and Family Readiness Center, gives a brief rundown of 72nd Force Support Squadron services available during a Tinker Family Orientation class May 11. The class is held every two weeks at the Airman and Family Readiness Center in Bldg. 6001 and gives Active Duty Airmen