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  • Tinker tops $1 million in CFC drive

    Key staff and volunteers were recognized Tuesday for outstanding achievements in helping Tinker Air Force Base raise over $1 million in the 2015 Combined Federal Campaign.The base total of $1,031,292 represented nearly half of the $2.3 million in donations from federal employees in the 16-county

  • VITA office halfway through tax season

    The Tinker Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Office program provides tax preparation and electronic filing services for active duty military members, military retirees, dependents of active duty and retirees, and Air Reserve Component members performing Active Guard/Reserve by appointment. Reservists

  • Tinker youth learn to Kick Butts

    On March 16, teens from the Tinker Youth Center took part in Kick Butts Day, an event aimed at teaching them the dangers of tobacco. It's also a day that empowers youth to stand out, speak up and seize control against Big Tobacco.Laura Crowder, Tinker's Health Promotion manager, was on hand to share

  • Air Force announces new AFMC command chief

    Air Force officials announced March 24, 2016, the assignment of Chief Master Sgt. Jason L. France as the command chief sergeant of Air Force Materiel Command. He is currently the command chief master sergeant of the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The command's

  • Casual league strikes big on morale

    It's a Monday night and the WBL is rockin' the house.The walls of the Tinker Bowling Center echo with the sounds of bowling balls bashing the boards and the ice-bucket clatter of pins crashing into each other. A mom cradles a baby girl in the crook of an elbow as dad lifts a ball to his chest and

  • AFMC strategic plan to help carry Air Force to Third Offset

    Agility and innovation are cornerstones of a new Air Force Materiel Command strategic plan that will deliver war-winning capabilities. Those capabilities will propel the Air Force as a key element of the future national defense strategy known as the Third Offset.The first "offset" came in the 1950s

  • Four AFSC people among command award winners

    Air Force Materiel Command honored its top Airmen of 2015 during the command's Annual Excellence Awards Banquet March 9.Four members of the Air Force Sustainment Center -- Tech. Sgt. Kasmir A. Alford, 72nd Medical Support Squadron;  Master Sgt. Brian S. Partido, 72nd Medical Group; Maj. David R.

  • AFSC/LG deputy retires

    Col. Jeff Meserve, deputy director of Logistics with the Air Force Sustainment Center, is retiring.The colonel, who has been stationed at Tinker twice, has some advice for the new deputy."There's a ton of issues that you'll be dealing with, a mile wide, a mile deep," he said. "Don't get comfortable

  • Tinker weather officer explains common terms

    If you've lived in Oklahoma longer than a week, you know the weather changes quickly. Weather in the springtime can get a little sketchy, so it is imperative to stay aware.Severe thunderstorms, high winds, hail and, of course, tornadoes typically occur between March and May. Although, Capt. Casey