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  • Champs still have golden touch

    Defending champs Reserve Gold protected their unblemished record this season with a 22-6 conquest over undefeated 72nd Security Forces Squadron in the Spring Flag Football League.Reserve Gold made the most of their first possession from the 20 yard line. An 80-yard drive April 4 got big boosts from

  • Money-saving restoration leans toward the wild side

    Tinker’s ongoing native habitat restoration program recently got a boost with the planting of 1,200 wildflowers on the base’s west side. Natural Resources Manager John Krupovage said the new additions are the second phase of restoration work in flood-prone empty fields where old base housing had

  • Art of the Possible

    The 567th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron completed a B-1 Integrated Battle Station modification on aircraft 85-0083 in 170 days, the lowest time yet safely meeting the Art of the Possible production goal. “The significance of 85-0083 cannot be under emphasized,” said Rodney Shepard, Weapon Systems

  • B-2 makes a stop at Tinker

    B-2A, serial #88-0331, 'Spirit of South Carolina' of the 509th bomb Wing, Air Force Global Strike Command, on the parking ramp at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, during a visit April 11, 2017. The B-2A 'stealth bomber' visited the base to allow hundreds of personnel who work in direct support of

  • 72nd Med Group encourages questions

    Got an appointment soon at the 72nd Medical Group?If so, the medical staff would appreciate it if you would fulfill a small “prescription” on your next visit: “Ask Me 3.”The Medical Group recently began promoting the slogan from the National Patient Safety Foundation. Studies have shown that

  • Patient safety

    Susan Nelson, a customer at the Tinker Clinic, writes a comment on a board in the Medical Group atrium during Patient Safety Awareness Week. The comment boards for patients and staff members were one of several activities highlighting the week’s theme, “United for Patient Safety.” (Air Force photo

  • 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