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  • John Over bids Tinker farewell

    After six consecutive assignments, and 14 years at Tinker, John Over is moving on. In December, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center executive director is deploying to Baghdad for a year-long assignment.Despite a lengthy tenure, Mr. Over said Tinker hasn't been just another base to him. It is

  • Tinker’s Energy Awareness Month prompts Energy Awareness Year

    Energy Awareness Month is drawing to a close, but Tinker's conservation efforts are far from over. The month's events commemorating energy conservation were successful, but the long-term plans could lead to legendary results.The energy-awareness message and conservation practices will be encouraged

  • 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