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  • Fitness center's grand reopening features prizes, competitions

    The Gerrity Fitness and Sports Center daylong grand reopening Oct. 21 will feature prizes, competitions and a chance to check out a bevy of new fitness machines and other upgrades.The Gerrity staff is eager to show off the doubling of the cardio workout area and an expanded free weights room,

  • Tinker on track for big energy savings in 2015

    Tinker Air Force Base is on track to reap more than $500,000 in energy and water savings when the final figures for fiscal year 2015 are tallied, according to base officials.The home of the heavily industrial Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex is projected to exceed the Air Force's 3 percent energy

  • Feds Feed Families total: 9,372 pounds

    Team Tinker busted through the 9,000-pound mark to help feed families and children in eastern Oklahoma County.Tech. Sgt. Dwight Veon, with the 72nd Security Squadron and project officer for this year's Tinker AFB Feds Feed Families drive, said donors gave a total of 9,372 pounds of food and other

  • AFLCMC personnel travel to Brazil for test cell correlation

    Four members of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Propulsion Sustainment Division recently traveled to Brazil to conduct an in-country review and perform a "test cell correlation" on a J85 engine for the "Forca Aerea Brasileira," also known as Brazilian air force.The four are part of the

  • Retirees meet, swap stories about BUFF 695

    Sitting in Tinker's Maj. Charles B. Hall Memorial Air Park is "Early Riser," a B-52 with the tail number 695. That aircraft flew countless combat missions during the Vietnam War.On Oct. 1, a small group of retirees from the 461st Bomb Wing met at the air park for a reunion. This group meets every