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  • 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

  • Tinker practices disease containment

    With information about serious diseases predominately in the news, it is natural for everyone to wonder exactly how Tinker Air Force Base would handle a disease outbreak.That's precisely what the 72nd Medical Group planned for in the recent disease containment exercise, an annual requirement for

  • 507th ARW gains a new squadron, air mobility training mission

    The 507th Air Refueling Wing gained a new squadron and a new training mission assuming command over the 730th Air Mobility Training Squadron out of Altus Air Force Base, Okla.The 730th AMTS is an Air Force Reserve Command unit which is charged with training aircrew on the C-17 Globemaster III,

  • Year of challenges, success for men and women of 72nd ABW

    If the Air Force had a time machine, no one in the 72nd Air Base Wing would want to go back to April 2013. Accomplishing major achievements in the face of workforce reductions, sequestration cuts, furloughs, a government shutdown, major inspections and ongoing organizational changes has not been