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  • 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

  • Weight checks register $1.2 million in savings

    The Tinker AFB office that helps military members with their residential moves saved more than $1.2 million since fiscal year 2013 by increasing how often it weighs trucks hauling household goods. Expanding the number of moneysaving “reweighs” was also adopted at the regional Joint Personal Property

  • Looking inside: The massive undertaking of a KC-135 double-belly removal

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex recently performed its second double-skin removal this year on a KC-135 Stratotanker, the refueling aircraft which can carry up to 83,000 pounds of cargo. Although single belly skin removals are fairly common, the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron performs

  • AFSC shares mission and updates

    Daron Bender, a sheet metal chief with the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, left, provides Wayne Schatz Jr., associate deputy chief of staff for operations, headquarters, United States Air Force, with an overview of the aft wing terminal fitting and center wing spar replacement procedures being

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: The Evacuation of Clark Air Force Base

    On June 10, 1991, Col. Jeffrey R. Grime, commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Clark Air Force Base, began carrying out the order to evacuate Clark Air Base, Philippines. U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay eventually followed suit. It was worried that a harmless looking nearby volcano, Mount

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing AGM- 84A/D ‘Harpoon’ missile

    The AGM-84A/D Air Launch Cruise Missile is an air breathing missile capable of sustaining high subsonic flight using Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System guidance. The missile was originally developed for the U.S. Navy capable of being launched from land, submarines and surface ships