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  • Inspector General settles complaints, attacks fraud

    Resolving complaints, ensuring compliance with official Air Force instructions and policies, and stopping fraud, waste and abuse at Tinker Air Force Base, are key responsibilities of the Inspector General, Lt. Col. Aaron Troxell.Successful complaint resolution is intended to enhance an

  • Tinker’s Green Infrastructure Plan harvesting big returns

    Most people would associate hay baling operations with agriculture and not grounds-keeping at one of the busiest aerospace maintenance, overhaul and repair complexes in the Air Force. At Tinker, baling hay is yielding a harvest designed to "green" the base while cutting grounds-maintenance

  • Tinker participates in STEM programs

    Flowers and plants depend on their stems for survival. Tinker also relies on a stem or STEM. Science, technology, engineering and math are Tinker's roots to the future, success and survival.Tinker and its personnel participate in and sponsor several kindergarten through college STEM outreach

  • F135 engine depot stand-up has started

    A maintenance depot for the engine that powers the next-generation jet fighter is being developed at Tinker Air Force Base.During Phase 1 of the project, 33,000 square feet of floor space was dedicated in Bldg. 3001 recently for maintenance of the jet's power plant, the F135 engine. The shop area

  • Career assistance advisers are ‘here to help Airmen’

    Young Airmen contemplating whether to "re-up" or retrain are urged to visit the Tinker Air Force Base career assistance advisers in the First Term Airmen's Center, Bldg. 5899.Master Sgt. Bianca Locust and Master Sgt. Jennifer Crosby said they "are here to help Tinker's Airmen."During an Informed

  • Wastewater treatment key in environmental stewardship

    Tinker AFB has separate industrial and sanitary sewer systems, related Brandt Fleharty, Wastewater Program Manager for the Environmental Management Branch, Operations Section, 72nd ABW Civil Engineering Directorate.Approximately one-half to two-thirds of the wastewater produced daily in the 464

  • Environmental remediation and ongoing effort at Tinker

    The Environmental Restoration Branch at Tinker is in the business of remediating "things we did 20, 30, 50 years ago," said Albert Aguilar, the branch chief. "It's not that we did anything illegal. It's just that we as a nation weren't as environmentally aware back then."For example, Tinker has six

  • New jet engine test cells under construction at Tinker’s 9001

    Two more jet-engine test cells are under construction at Tinker Air Force Base, near Bldg. 9001.According to Mason Hopkins, Engine Test Program Manager with the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, one of the structures will provide depot testing capability for the F135 engine, the power plant in the

  • ‘Balance’ comes with total force

    A milestone was reached recently in the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group.In the Tinker AFB Propulsion Engine Division, the balancing of major jet engine components, such as turbines and compressors, historically has been performed by civilian employees. However, the Propulsion Division now has its