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  • All-Armed Forces softball teams visit Tinker

    Both the men’s and women’s All-Armed Forces softball teams recently took advantage of Tinker’s softball fields to practice for the 2016 Amateur Softball Association Slow Pitch Championship Series Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex.

  • Shelter from the storm

    A P-3 Orion from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, taxies after landing at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Oct. 6. The aircraft was one of eleven from NAS Jacksonville that sought shelter from Hurricane Matthew here. (Air Force photo by April McDonald)

  • AFMC promotes ‘RECESS’ physical activity challenge

    During the months of October through December, Air Force Materiel Command will promote its RECESS physical activity challenge.RECESS is a command-wide initiative which is conducted by Civilian Health Promotion Services, to help the AFMC workforce increase movement by promoting short bursts of

  • Tinker resident, Texas horned lizard, educates at Wildlife Expo Sept. 24

    Miranda Vesy, a Southern Illinois University employee who works on lizard research at Tinker Air Force Base, talks about the Texas horned lizard with attendees at the Sept. 24 Wildlife Expo at the Lazy E in Guthrie. Ms. Vesy works in conjunction with the 72nd Air Base Wing Civil Engineering

  • OC-ALC volunteers show Wingman spirit

    Moving from England, buying a home and setting up a new household near Edmond involved a good amount of snags and challenges for Staff Sgt. Fred Gilmore and his family. So what happened Aug. 6 to Sergeant Gilmore, 27, a B-1 bomber avionics technician with the 550th Commodities Maintenance Squadron,

  • Hawks at home this weekend

    The Tinker Hawks will take on Barksdale AFB, La., and Sheppard AFB, Texas, teams Saturday and Sunday at the Gerrity Fitness Center main court.

  • Out of the Boneyard, Into the Fight: Ghost Rider Flies Again

    He said it was something he never thought he’d see again. The B-52H Stratofortress screamed across the blue North Dakota sky above Minot Air Force Base before coming in to land.“I saw it at the boneyard and figured that’s the end of that era,” said Robert Crane, 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron