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  • Partnership streamlines PDM for ICBM wings

    The 309th Missile Maintenance Group and Defense Logistics Agency recently worked together on an initiative to establish a “retail-like” support structure in order to stock, store and distribute parts and supplies to the Air Force’s three ICBM wings.

  • LAST CALL: Physician Assistant Program seeks applicants by Jan. 30

    The Interservice Physician Assistant Program is accepting applications from active duty officers and enlisted Airmen through the end of January for the annual March selection boards.  1st Lt. Cindy Fernandez graduated from the program in October 2016. She was previously an enlisted member in

  • The Hawks are back

    The Tinker Hawks are on the winning track with an impressive 15-2 conference record midway through the Central U.S. Military Basketball League season. The varsity basketball team is neck-and-neck with Fort Sill for the top spot in the four-team central division. They’re also one of only five teams

  • VQ-7 sinks 72nd Security Forces Squadron

    The Navy VQ-7s topped the 72nd Security Forces Squadron 46-3 to kick off week five of base hoops.The first of two sixteen-minute halves was sparse in terms of points on the board, but intensity was in full force. After a missed three-pointer from the Navy’s Thatch (11 points) less than two minutes

  • Air Force program offers counseling

    The Air Force offers many avenues designed to help Airmen and their families overcome problems in their personal and work lives – from crises as serious as thinking of suicide to talking over a work concern with your first sergeant. But sometimes Airmen or dependents may hesitate to seek help, wary

  • TINKER HISTORY: Drones in the ’40s

    The Culver PQ-14 “Cadet” was an outgrowth of Culvers pre-WWII efforts in to inexpensive general aviation aircraft production. The PQ-14’s predecessor, the PQ-8, was produced specifically as a radio-controlled drone for the Army Air Corps beginning in 1940 when a contract for 200 aircraft was let.

  • Symposium details support for sexual assault victims

    About 80 Tinker AFB commanders, civilian directors, chiefs and other key leaders attended the third annual Tinker SAPR Symposium Jan. 12 —an in-depth refresher course about the wide-ranging resources and trained advocates who support victims of sexual assault.The half-day event at the Tinker Chapel

  • OC-ALC retreat

    Military members of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex lower the American flag from the base flag pole during an official retreat ceremony Jan. 24, 2017, Tinker Air Force Base Oklahoma. OC-ALC conducted the retreat ceremony as part of the official Tinker AFB 75th Anniversary events. Tinker

  • COMMENTARY: Snuffy Smith, first enlisted Airman to receive Medal of Honor

    Picture the scene: a group of 30 young men in the small town of Caro, Mich., getting their picture taken on the courthouse steps before leaving to serve their country. As they line up, the sheriff calls across the steps to say he had one more for the picture: Maynard Harrison Smith in handcuffs,