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  • Air Force holds sexual assault offenders accountable, convictions now online

    The Air Force now publishes sexual assault convictions online at www.afjag.af.mil/sexualassaultprosecution/index.asp. This is a public website that anyone can access to review more than 100 sexual assault convictions from across the Air Force. After a few minutes of reviewing the facts of these

  • Tinker Energy Team receives Wildcatter Award

    Members of the Tinker Energy Team, part of the 72nd Air Base Wing Civil Engineering Directorate and Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, recently received a Wildcatter Team Award from 72nd ABW Commander Col. Christopher Azzano. This small but dedicated team of only six full-time employees continues

  • TACP tryouts set for Nov. 2

    The 146th Air Support Operations Squadron of the Oklahoma Air National Guard will hold tryouts next Saturday for individuals who desire to be members of the Tactical Air Control Party."The primary mission of TACP is to conduct close air support against exactly the right target at exactly the right

  • Legal Assistance Office changes service hours

    The 72nd Air Base Wing Legal Office is modifying its hours to better accommodate its active duty, retiree and dependent clients.Starting Nov. 5, the legal office will offer legal assistance from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, and 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. The office offers its clients

  • More than 150 to graduate during Oct. 29 ceremony

    More than 150 to graduate during Oct. 29 ceremonyThe 2013 Fall Community College of the Air Force graduation ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Tinker Club. Family, friends, commanders, first sergeants, supervisors and all of Team Tinker are invited to attend the event honoring the

  • Tinker Elementary students participate in poster contest

    Tinker Elementary School students are keeping up with the times.One-hundred forty students recently participated in the 2013 Energy Action Month Tinker Elementary School Energy Poster Contest sponsored by the Tinker Energy Team. First, second and third-place winners were chosen in two categories.

  • Airman convicted of sexual assault on woman incapable of consent

    A Tinker Airman was convicted last week of having sex with an ex-girlfriend while she was too drunk to consent, and will be discharged from the Air Force.Senior Airman Courtney D. Waddell of the 72nd Security Forces Squadron was found guilty of committing a sexual act upon a young woman who was

  • Realistic Training on Tinker No Cause for Alarm

    In the coming weeks, the Tinker Fire Department will be conducting numerous training exercises at various times throughout the base and in particular, the vicinity of Chidlaw Ave.  Please do not be alarmed if you see the harmless artificial smoke and fire trucks performing these exercises as this

  • TO archives are leaned, digitized

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Technical Systems Division Technical Orders Home Office has leaned its processes and in turn saved the Air Force $1,100 per technical order request. "We're leaning out a paper-based technical order world to a digital-based TO world," said Blaser Munger, TO

  • Greening Tinker: New lighting in industrial areas saves money, energy

    They literally saw the light.Tinker's energy personnel are constantly on a quest to reduce energy usage while maintaining production rates. This time, they realized if they changed the lighting used on the industrial floors in Bldgs. 3001 and 9001, they could figuratively hit two birds with one