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  • Employee Enhancement Program graduates 87

    Eighty-seven individuals recently graduated from the yearlong Tinker Employee Enhancement Program.The EEP is a leadership and knowledge enhancement program to develop and broaden participants' leadership skills and knowledge of the mission, structure and business activities of key organizations at

  • Senate confirms AFMC leaders for promotion

    Air Force officials announced March 27 the Senate confirmation of five Air Force Materiel Command senior leaders' nominations.Officials announced the Senate confirmation of Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, military deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition at the

  • Rules changing for base renters insurance

    Airmen who start a new lease after April 1 for privatized homes on Tinker AFB will no longer have renters insurance provided by the Balfour Beatty Communities, base officials said.However, current leaseholders, including anyone still within the first year of the term, will continue to have renters

  • AFSC/EN announces second cycle of educational program

    Air Force Sustainment Center Engineering and Technical Management DirectorateThe Air Force Sustainment Center Engineering and Technical Management Directorate is announcing the second cycle of the Enhanced Education for Electronics Engineering Technician Development Program.This educational program

  • Video teleconferencing changes around Tinker

    Video teleconferencing underwent a major technology revamp over the last eight months in the Department of Defense and at Tinker Air Force Base. Before the changes, all Tinker VTCs required at least a day in advance to schedule, were in conference rooms and used three digital phones lines. 

  • Tinker named Tree City USA for 22nd year

    For the past 22 years, Tinker Air Force Base has been recognized as a Tree City USA.Part of the requirements of being a Tree City USA is holding an Arbor Day celebration. Col. Christopher Azzano, 72nd Air Base Wing and Tinker installation commander, proclaimed March 27 as Arbor Day at Tinker. To

  • Base recognized as a Certified Healthy Business

    Tinker Air Force Base has been recognized as a Healthy Business for 2014 as part of the Certified Healthy Oklahoma Program that includes businesses, campuses, communities, congregations, early childhood programs, restaurants and schools.The Certified Healthy Business Program recognizes businesses

  • Tinker man commits to healthy lifestyle change

    Losing weight has been a life long struggle for Matthew Thomas, who is in B-1 Production Management with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.In 2006, then-Master Sergeant Thomas weighed 330 pounds. He was near the end of his military career, but his size was a concern as the Air Force was