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  • Engineering Directorate to host major hiring event

    The Engineering Directorate is gearing up for one of its biggest hiring events on April 28.The invitation-only day of interviews will be the fifth hiring event since 2014. They are now held each spring and fall and primarily benefit the 76th Software Maintenance Group.“On average, we’ve hired at

  • Air Show Exercise

    Sunny Schones, with the 72nd Medical Operations Squadron, sprays fake blood on the arm of Janet Whatley, with the Air Force Sustainment Center’s Personnel Directorate, to simulate an arm wound. Whatley was one of approximately 50 people to volunteer as a moulage victim in an emergency response

  • Thunderbirds to headline May 20-21 Star Spangled Salute

    Tinker Air Force Base will open its gates for the 2017 Star Spangled Salute Air Show May 20-21 and headlining will be the Air Force Thunderbirds. The theme of the day will be the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force, the 75th Anniversary of Tinker AFB, and the 40th anniversary of the E-3 Sentry at

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: In the beginning, with B.D. Foulois

    On Aug. 1, 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established a small Aeronautical Division to take “charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects.”At the time, there were few aeronautical “subjects” upon which to build. From the close of the Civil War

  • TINKER HISTORY: Piper L-4 Cub

    The Piper Aircraft Corporation L-4 “Grasshopper” was a high-wing, single-engine liaison aircraft with tricycle landing gear configuration. The L-4 was an improved version of the highly successful Piper J-3 ‘Cub’ through the addition of a radio and military paint and markings. Large sales of the L-4

  • Stately visit

    Several members of Oklahoma’s House of Representatives freshman class visited Tinker Air Force Base on Wednesday to learn more about the critical missions being performed here and how those missions relate to the state. The visit provided an opportunity for base leaders to show off Oklahoma’s own

  • Tinker hosts Aircraft Maintenance Group Summit

    Tinker hosted the Air Force Sustainment Center’s annual Aircraft Maintenance Group Summit Feb. 14-16. Along with aircraft maintenance group leadership, the summit included approximately 50 members from Robins and Hill Air Force Bases, group commanders, deputy directors, squadron leaders, business

  • No-drones rule includes air show

    Operating Unmanned Aircraft Systems is off limits within five miles of Tinker Air Force Base without permission. When the base hosts the Star Spangled Salute Air Show May 20-21, there will be zero exceptions.Maj. Robert Hughes, 72nd Operations Support Squadron Director of Operations, said a

  • AFAF: Giving makes a difference

    For decades, the Air Force Assistance Fund has raised funds to support our Air Force families in need. The AFAF has made a difference in the lives of our Airmen and their families and will continue to do so in the years to come because of one important element – YOU! Each year men and women from

  • Airmen graduate from Tinker Airman Leadership School

    Thirty-four Airmen graduated from Tinker’s Airman Leadership School last month.Graduates are:122nd Aircraft Maintenance SquadronSenior Airman Griffin BertrandSenior Airman Kacey Johnson137th Aeromed Evacuation SquadronSenior Airman Joshua Hommen-Roddy507th Medical SquadronSenior Airman Maggie Green,