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  • Talk, play your way to a healthy family

    Every family is different, yet one theme is universal: healthy families make time to talk, plan, play, laugh and work together. You can learn how to achieve this with your family with a simple click. Log on to www.FOH4YOU.com to access Healthy Family Relationships in the Spotlight section. Once

  • VSA aims to eliminate confusion for projects

    There are many "working parts" at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. One of those parts involves the maintenance, repair and construction of the property and infrastructure within the facilities that make up the OC-ALC.But making repairs and requesting construction isn't as easy as picking up

  • ALC training transformation champions

    It's a task that all organizations seek to do -- continuously improve their processes. But at Tinker, the need to heighten efficiency has never been keener, as units are facing reduced budgets and up-tempo operations. Within the 72nd Air Base Wing, the edicts of transformation have now come to

  • Mentors down the hall

    For new Airmen arriving at Tinker -- many of them fresh out of tech school -- they usually notice one thing. Tinker is big. Although most go on to thrive in their new Oklahoma City duty station, those first few months of transition are pivotal. Each quarter about 75 to 85 new Airmen arrive at the

  • New, simple filtration method could be the answer to zinc

    Rain clouds unleash their tempest as civil engineering workers crouch near the concrete channel filled with rushing water. They've come to the 1,700-foot drainage ditch near Bldg. 3001 for what's not seen -- the particles of zinc dissolved throughout the water.      It may seem like an undesirable

  • Reducing the waste in water

    Waste water isn't something that immediately comes to mind when you think of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. But for the people at Tinker's Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant, it's a commodity that is always on their minds. And they have plenty of it to stay busy.      Each day almost a

  • 513th chief of maintenance receives Bronze Star medal

    Lt Col. Dale Andrews recently received the Bronze Star Medal by distinguishing himself for meritorious achievement as deputy group commander of the 451st Expeditionary Maintenance Group, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan while engaged in ground operations against the enemy

  • 552nd greets familiar face

    The 552nd Operations Group welcomed a new commander and familiar face July 22.Col. Gregory Roberts, who has been stationed at Tinker twice prior to this assignment, succeeded Col. George Carpenter at a change-of-command ceremony at Bldg. 230's Dock 2. "Colonel Roberts has escaped the churn of

  • DSCR organization renamed ‘DLA Aviation’

    Defense Logistics Agency's aviation demand and supply chain manager, known for years by the same name as its home installation -- Defense Supply Center Richmond -- is being renamed "DLA Aviation."DSCR will still be the name of the physical installation that is home to DLA Aviation and 1,860 members