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  • 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

  • Senator Inhofe visits Tinker

    Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, right, looks on as Sen. Jim Inhofe boards his airplane positioned in front of Base Ops following a brief visit to Tinker Air Force Base May 31. The senator was in the local area to attend a number of community events and received a

  • OC-ALC promotion ceremony

    Candy Johnson, left, and Caroline Oliver, right, pinned the rank of major general onto their husband and son, respectively, Maj. Gen. Mark K. Johnson, during his promotion ceremony June 2 at Bldg. 3001’s Hollywood and Vine. Air Force Sustainment Center Commander Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II officiated

  • Fueling the Fight

    Senior Airman Thriston Noel, 351st Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon, 510th Fighter Squadron, from a KC-135R Stratotanker during BALTOPS exercise over Latvia, June 7, 2017. The U.S. Air Force is supporting this exercise with approximately 900 Airmen, eight F-16s

  • BALTOPS 2017 Kicks Off

    Exercise BALTIC OPERATIONS (BALTOPS) is underway in the Baltic Sea region until 16 June. Air, maritime, and ground assets from several NATO Allies and Partner Nations are involved in the live training event that started from Szczecin, Poland and finishes in Kiel, Germany.