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  • MXS 1 earns its name over squadron rival

    The 552 MXS 1 team lived up to their name, topping squadron rival 552 MXS 2 by three points. The Maintenance Squadron teams met for the first time in the intramural season, which will wind head into the playoffs next week.Both teams came into the game with identical 7-2 records.  MXS 1 built a

  • What’s all the racquet?

    Working out can feel like a chore at times. You go to the gym, pull through cardio, dabble with the weights, and then head home. It can make a workout seem routine and boring. Want to put the swing back into fitness? The 216 Fitness Facility has the perfect opportunity with this year’s Racquetball

  • Tinker first responders now equipped to save furry lives

    Tinker Air Force Base pets and wildlife suffering from exposure to fire, smoke and other life-threatening hazards now have a better chance of surviving. Air for Paws, a California nonprofit, recently donated five specialized emergency oxygen kits with facemasks specifically designed to fit furry

  • DBIDS upgrade provides faster, secure gate flow

    As visitors to military bases go through the base gates, they may notice traffic is flowing faster but what they may not notice is security is also stronger.Thanks to a Defense Biometrics Identification System 5.0 upgrade, ID card scanning speed has been reduced to a single second or less and the

  • Swords to emails: AFMC finance deputy chief talks leadership

    Although leadership involves similar core principles, how it develops and shows itself is different for everyone, the deputy director of Air Force Materiel Command’s financial management said recently at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. “It’s not cookie-cutter,” said Michael Mehrman, a Senior

  • USMC Lt. Gen. Dana visits Tinker

    Craig Rayner, with the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, left, discusses programmed depot maintenance being performed on the KC-135 Stratotanker with United States Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Dana, deputy commandant, Installations and Logistics, at the Pentagon, during General Dana’s tour of

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: John Levitow and Spooky 71

    Spooky, sometimes called Puff (The Magic Dragon), was a specially outfitted U.S. Air Force AC-47 aircraft designed to provide support to Soldiers on the ground. Carrying 21,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, the aircraft’s three mini-guns could accurately spew up to 6,000 rounds per minute to repulse

  • Seeing the DRAGON

    Lt. Col. Chris Hansen, project officer for the DRAGON Glass Cockpit Modification, points out some of the changes to the E-3G Sentry flight deck to Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly, commander, 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern), during the general’s visit to the 552nd Air Control Wing Feb. 21. (Air Force photo