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  • Basketball playoffs blast off

    The first week of the intramural basketball playoffs contained few surprises as the top-ranked teams advanced to the next round.In three evenings of games last week, undefeated 366th MPC beat 72nd Operations Support Squadron (2-9 regular season). The 72nd Med Group (10-1) toppled CGOC.Also advancing

  • Russell Lathrop: A Tinker legacy from barnstorming days to KC-135s

    Russell “Russ” Lathrop was 9 years old when aviation lifted his feet off the ground — literally and figuratively — in the middle of the Great Depression.His next-door neighbor in the southern Oklahoma town of Ardmore was Ben Scott. He was a mechanic and aviator who flew out of the local sod-runway

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress”

    The Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” was a four-engine, heavy bomber produced for the Army Air Corps prior to and during World War II. The aircraft was used in all theaters of the war with particularly heavy use in the European campaign.According to official Tinker history documents, the Oklahoma City

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: The Rosies

    Life in America was transformed by the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. The leader of those attacks, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, famously concluded, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Rarely has someone in the moment so perfectly

  • Ogden ALC completes F-35 milestone

    The Ogden Air Logistics Complex accomplished another “first” in support of the F-35 Lightning II program. A U.S. Navy F-35C – carrier variant – was delivered to Edwards AFB, Calif., on March 13, making the Ogden ALC the first maintenance depot to receive, modify and deliver all three F-35 variants.

  • TINKER HISTORY: Douglas IM-99 BOMARC missile

    The Boeing/Michigan Aeronautical Research Center IM-99A/B BOMARC missile was the world’s first ground-based long-range, anti-aircraft missile and the only anti-aircraft missile ever operated by the U.S. Air Force. The missile was supersonic capable and equipped with a 7-10 kiloton nuclear warhead.

  • Continuous Energy Improvement to benefit OC-ALC paint operations

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex is using the Art of the Possible to engineer major improvements for two of its largest energy-consuming operations. The energy-efficiency projects will target Bldg. 3225, a hangar where overhauled aircraft get new paint jobs, and Bldg. 3228, where paint is

  • How to take measure, literally, of your retirement

    One of the ways Andrea Perkins emphasizes how important it is to think about and plan for military retirement ASAP is by handing out tape measures.Ms. Perkins, the lead community readiness consultant with the Airman and Family Readiness Center, recently used the exercise in two Tinker AFB town hall

  • Tinker conducts severe weather, active shooter exercises

    Airman Ryan Kalugdan and Staff Sgt. Chris Hansen, both with the 72nd Operations Support Squadron’s Weather Center, issued weather warnings, watches and advisories base wide throughout the day during Tinker’s annual natural disaster exercise Feb. 27. The weather center continuously monitors local and