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  • Joining forces: Tinker partners with Boeing, RAAF for joint operation

    Tinker officials deemed the pick-up a success. After seven months of planning and coordinating, two Royal Australian air force C-17 Globemasters recently arrived at Tinker, acquired a training simulator and returned to their native Australia. The joint operation between Tinker, RAAF and Boeing came

  • 76th MXW commander shares gameplan

    Connecticut native Brig. Gen. Bruce Litchfield could soon be the Geno Auriemma of the maintenance arena. Like the coach who led the University of Connecticut Lady Huskies to a perfect season, winning the 2009 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, the general strives for excellence and aspires to

  • Team making progress at TAC

    The Tinker Aerospace Complex is projected to be ready mid-summer for its first depot-maintenance shop tenants. By the end of fiscal 2009, five additional Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center shops are scheduled to move into the main facility. Shops from the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, 76th

  • Leaders preparing workers for TAC moves

    The 76th Commodities Maintenance Group is preparing to move 80 percent of its people and processes during the next five years. To ensure these transitions are a seamless process, CMXG is holding town hall meetings to prepare its work force. The group is on course to reduce its footprint from 26 to

  • Airman’s decades-old sacrifice at Tinker lives on as example to all

    Accolades flowed recently following the dramatic landing of a commercial airliner in the Hudson River. US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger received nationwide admiration for his steady skill that led to the successful rescue of all passengers, without a single loss of life to those living on both

  • A clean house is a safe house for children

    A licensed clinical social worker says she's noticed a trend at Tinker in the past several years and it's not a good one. Sheryl Milton, who has worked as a Family Advocacy treatment manager at Tinker for 13 years, said she gets a lot of referrals on what she calls "dirty house complaints." That

  • Keeping the plant running

    The 76th Maintenance Support Squadron's Equipment Engineering Office is not a well-known unit on base. But, the organization's mission is vital to the Air Force. The unit, made up of nearly 20 personnel, manages approximately 10,000 pieces of industrial plant equipment, or IPE, for the 76th

  • CONSERVE: Tinker programs in place to save energy, resources

    Tinker Air Force Base may be among the first in the Air Force to meet federally-mandated green energy requirements when it signs an agreement this month with OG&E for the supply of wind-generated electricity. Under the agreement, OG&E will provide 7.5 percent of the base's electricity from wind

  • 76th CMXG “You name it, we sustain it.”

    "You name it, we sustain it," said Col. Jeffrey Sick, 76th Commodities Maintenance Group commander. Situated in the heart of the Oklahoma Air Logistics Center, the commodities maintenance group is one of five groups within the 76th Maintenance Wing. Home to nearly 2,000 personnel in three major