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  • Healthy for life: New options on the menu at Café 3001

    Officials with Aramark's Café 3001 heard customer feedback and have made changes to provide more healthy food options in their restaurants on base. The 'Eat Well' leaf is the new symbol of healthy food options on the Aramark menu. The Eat Well selections include nutritious foods like vegetables,

  • Get the most nutrition from calories and 'Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right'

    While taste drives most food choices, eating nutrient-rich foods that provide the most nutrition per calorie is one of the best ways to "Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right," according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As part of the 2014 National Nutrition Month theme, the Academy encourages

  • Tinker Hawks repeat as conference champs

    The Tinker Hawks closed out their season with a clean sweep at the Central U.S. Military Basketball Conference Championship at Fort Sill in Lawton March 15-16. The tournament had all the elements of being very competitive, as a number of teams finished the regular season strong. On the strength of a

  • Thunderbirds to headline Star Spangled Salute

    The U.S. Air Force Thunderbird aerial demonstration team is set to headline the Star Spangled Salute Air Show at Tinker AFB, June 21-22."We are very excited to welcome back the Thunderbirds," said Col. Christopher Azzano, 72nd Air Base Wing and Tinker installation commander. "It has been four years

  • 72nd Medical Group shows HeART during inspection

    The 72nd Medical Group has HeART and it showed during a recent inspection.The 72nd MDG scored a 'Substantially Compliant' rating, the highest available, on the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care inspection last week. The inspection evaluated the group's compliance with national

  • Tinker, community come together at annual Dining Out

    The Tinker Club was decked out in elegance as service members and the local community celebrated the 41st annual Tinker and Community Dining Out March 1.The dining out, sponsored by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, served as a chance to enhance the relationship between Tinker and the

  • 552 ACW commander discusses wing's future

    The 4,600-member 552nd Air Control Wing would lose seven E-3 Sentry aircraft under the Air Force's proposed FY 2015 budget -- a move that would also reduce the overall size of the wing, said 552nd ACW Commander Col. Jay R. Bickley. The colonel spoke with his Airmen in several All-Calls this week

  • Proposed FY15 Budget drives force structure changes at Tinker

    The Air Force today announced multiple changes to associate units at Tinker as a result of the President's proposed Fiscal Year 2015 Defense Budget.The proposed actions include reductions in the 552nd Air Control Wing, inactivation of the Air Force Reserve Command's 513th Air Control Group,