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  • Reserve firefighters pay tribute to 9/11 comrades

    Firefighters from the 507th Civil Engineer Squadron participated in their 5th Annual Fire Climb on Sept. 7 to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks.Inspired by firefighter cadets in Austin, Texas, members of the 507th Air Refueling Wing climbed the equivalent of 110 stories to commemorate the 343

  • AFSC commander cites Air Force birthday

    On Sept. 18, 1947, the United States Air Force was established as a separate service. Since then, it's grown into the world's dominant Air Force; able to protect and defend America with global reach, power, and vigilance -- in air, space and cyberspace -- at a moment's notice. As we celebrate this

  • Record breaker: KC-135 through the gates in 93 days

    The 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron has achieved the "Art of the Possible" in record-breaking time. Members of the squadron recently produced a KC-135 in just 93 days, breaking the previous record by a day.Joel Wood, the master scheduler for the 564th AMXS, said the average time it takes to

  • Fall intramural sports teams forming now: Last day for basketball tryouts

    Cooler air is on its way, which means it's time to get with co-workers and colleagues and jump into fall sports. Teams are forming now for intramural football and soccer. The varsity Tinker Hawks basketball team will hold its last official day of tryouts today from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Gerrity Fitness

  • Swingers knock out eighth base championship

    The perennially powerful Swingers softball team won its eighth base championship in 10 years last week, knocking out the Thumpers 14-2 in the final.The Swingers struggled early in the first game of the double-elimination final, finding themselves down 13-4 in the first three innings. The umpire

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • General gets first look at F135 engine

    During a short visit to Tinker by Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, on Aug. 26, the general got an up-close look at the first U.S. Marine Corps F135 engine that was tested at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex's new T-9 Test Cell facility.This particular T-9 Test

  • AFMC commander says tough decisions create opportunities

     Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, told members of Team Tinker the biggest challenge the Air Force faces is doing business in a constrained budget environment."That has driven tough decisions, but also creates opportunities," the general said during her Aug. 26 visit

  • General calls on contractors to partner on savings, technology

    The commander of the Air Force Sustainment Center recently addressed businesses large and small to encourage their partnership to boost the center's success through cost-cutting initiatives and innovation in technology in a time of smaller budgets and heightened world conflicts. Lt. Gen. Bruce