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  • 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

  • Tinker crew commander spends year in skies

     Maj. Jon Williams, 963rd Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron mission crew commander, reached a year's worth of flying hours as an air battle manager on an E-3 Sentry, Jan. 15. Throughout Major Williams' 28-year career he has flown 1,102 sorties supporting the Airborne Warning and Control

  • HONORED GUEST: Veteran WWII pilot recognized at center

    A white Cadillac DTS arrived at Bldg. 3001's main entrance Dec. 29. Its driver, Army Air Corps retired Maj. William "Skipper" McClendon, stepped out of the vehicle. Donned in a faded-blue dress uniform, with medals of yesteryear, Major McClendon, a native Oklahoman, greeted his friend Maj. Gen.

  • Dedicated team readying TAC

    Six Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center shops will relocate to the much talked-about Tinker Aerospace Complex later this year. To prepare, hundreds of Air Force and Oklahoma County personnel are planning through the logistics and organizational issues that must be worked prior to the moves. Each day,

  • Command nominates Tinker for excellence

    Tinker has been selected by the Air Force Materiel Command to compete for the 2009 Commander-in-Chief's Annual Awards for Installation Excellence. Team Tinker will now compete against other commands' nominees for the award. A board will review the nominations and select two finalists. Once that

  • 60 years after the war, Airman’s granddad gets honor he is due

    Four years of military service left Hilario L. Riojas missing something for 62 years. Mr. Riojas, grandfather of Senior Airman Crystal Garza, 552nd Air Control Wing, has finally received his Purple Heart after serving his country during World War II. According to military documents, he should have

  • General sends special Thanksgiving message

    To the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Airmen, both military and civilian, Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I would like to share my thoughts with you. I have been amazed at the generosity I have seen on and off base this year. You, and the others at Tinker, have given more than $1.8 million to the

  • Tinker, community celebrate TAC partnership

    Prominent Air Force, Tinker, state and community leaders participated in an Oct. 23 ceremony celebrating the Tinker Aerospace Complex lease signing. "Today we have a special and happy opportunity to formally inaugurate the Tinker Aerospace Complex," said Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley.