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  • Keeping foodborne illness at bay

    With the Labor Day weekend up on us, the Public Health Flight offers tips on protecting yourself from foodborne illnesses.

  • General Richardson gives KC-46A progress report at symposium

    The first active-duty KC-46A Pegasus is slated to arrive at Tinker Air Force Base for routine maintenance three years from now, but preparations for the new aerial refueling tanker are in full swing across the Air Force, the program’s executive officer said. Brig. Gen. Duke Richardson, the Air Force

  • Tinker represented at COSTEMA designation ceremony Aug. 8

    Education, community, business and industry partners – including representatives from Tinker Air Force Base — came together Aug. 8 to officially launch the Central Oklahoma STEM Alliance, or COSTEMA, in a designation ceremony held in the Blue Room of the State Capitol.

  • Admirable visit

    Charles Alley, 565th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron director, right, explains the areas where cracks that lead to the need to replace lower segment halves in the B-52 landing gear are typically found to Adm. Cecil Haney, commander, U.S. Strategic Command, during a visit to Bldg. 2121 on Aug. 12. The

  • CareerTech partnership creates jobs pipeline for OC-ALC

    The announcement last fall that the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex planned to hire 1,000 people in 100 days made headlines across Oklahoma and beyond. To meet the ambitious goal, the OC-ALC revived a hiring program it hadn’t used in many years: the Helper-Trainee program.

  • Honoring the military

    Col. David Robertson, the 513th Air Control Group commander, throws the first pitch Aug. 19 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City as part of the Oklahoma City Dodgers military celebration night. The military-themed evening also included a mass re-enlistment and the Tinker Air Force Base

  • Col. Grussendorf takes helm of 72nd MDG

    Col. Christopher M. Grussendorf assumed command of the 72nd Medical Group during an Aug. 17 ceremony at the group’s Tinker Air Force Base headquarters.

  • AROUND TINKER: Four earn 72nd ABW Wildcatter Awards

    Four were recently honored with Wildcatter Awards from72nd ABW Commander Col. Stephanie Wilson. Michael J. Taber, a Federal Labor & EmploymentLaw Attorney-Advisor/Agency Representative since Nov. 2009, has taken on asubstantial additional caseload while representing the United States Air Forcebefore