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  • Quest for Zero: Air Force campaign promotes vehicle backing safety

    Can you guess what driving activity occupies less than 1 percent of a vehicle operator's time behind the wheel, but regularly, year after year, produces approximately 25 percent of all accidents?The Air Force's Vehicle Backing Focus Safety Campaign is from Aug. 10-14. The intent of this effort is

  • Local ace receives Congressional Gold Medal

    A retired colonel from Oklahoma recently added a gold medal to his long list of military awards.Col. Chuck DeBellevue is one of 77 surviving American fighter aces to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor Congress can bestow on behalf of the American people. His other military

  • Walker honored with 72nd ABW Wildcatter Award

    Brandon Walker, a management analyst with the 72nd Air Base Wing Communications Directorate, was recently honored with a Wildcatter Award.Mr. Walker performs outstanding customer service support for the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and Air Force Life Cycle Managment Center as the Electronic

  • Group works together to stay on road to a healthy lifestyle

    In the basement of the 72nd Medical Group, there is a group of IT professionals working hard to stay healthy.Their leader, Chief Information Officer Nanci Alexander, gives the credit to Glenn Lawson, a network specialist. Mr. Lawson wanted to get fit and Ms. Alexander partnered with him to help keep

  • Tinker youth learn water safety during ZAC Camp

    "I believe we can swim! We're going to swim all over you!"Cheers like this rang out during a medal ceremony marking the conclusion of ZAC Camp July 24 at the Tinker Youth Center.For a week, 120 base youth attended ZAC Camp, a water safety course designed to teach them the A, B, C and Ds of water

  • B-52 Wrap Cowls shop, a success story

    The numbers alone speak for themselves.Using the Art of the Possible and a modular flow process, the 551st Commodities Maintenance Squadron's B-52 Wrap Cowls shop in Bldg. 9001 has reduced its production time from 155 days to around 22 days. That's a difference of 133 days and a savings of more than

  • DFA methodology saves Air Force millions

    In an effort to provide better support to the warfighter and generate both cost effective readiness and combat power for America, the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing developed, base-lined and implemented a method of measuring the demand on the supply chain system, called Demand Forecast Accuracy,

  • Coal the firehouse dog: rescued by the rescuers

    As a 5-year-old black Labrador, Coal wasn't necessarily a shoe-in to become the newest member of Fire Station 4.She had to earn the honor three months ago of serving as Tinker Air Force Base's only firehouse dog.A rescue, Coal had already been returned once to the Yukon shelter she came from. A

  • West side story A year later, Fire Station 4 builds community service

    When Fire Station 4 opened, it was praised as a self-help project that cut estimated contractor costs by more than 90 percent, with the potential to sharply cut response times to Tinker AFB's west side.Just over a year later, response times have indeed dropped and the station has achieved another of

  • VA 'benefits ninjas' set up Tinker shop

    Randy Reynolds, a veteran service representative with the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, doesn't argue with the notion that he and his colleagues seem a lot like bureaucratic ninjas when it comes to slashing the way clear for veteran benefits."You've got 33 ninjas -- that's what I tell my