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  • Tinker Combined Federal Campaign kicks off Oct. 1

    "We can make a difference;" maybe a $1.8-million difference.It's that time of year again. The Combined Federal Campaign fundraiser kickoff is just around the corner. Beginning Oct. 1, Tinker military members and civilians can donate to CFC-approved charities. With 2,000 local, national and

  • New AF app helps with workplace problems

    Airmen can now download an Air Force mobile application designed to help them better get at the root of workplace problems.Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, or AFSO21, is the Air Force's eight-step problem solving method and the application puts AFSO21 resources right at their

  • Memo Prepares DOD Employees for Government Shutdown

    Although Defense Department officials believe a government shutdown can be avoided when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, they want DOD employees to be prepared for the possibility, Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a memo issued to the workforce today.The fiscal year ends Sept. 30, and

  • Army beats Air Force again in Armed Forces Softball Tournament

    The Air Force men's and women's teams both were runners-up to the Army in the Armed Forces Softball Tournament held recently at Fort Sill north of Lawton, Okla.The Air Force women's team advanced to the title game by edging the Navy, 6-5, but fell to the Army women, 6-3, on Sept. 18. The Army women

  • 507th ARW celebrates Family Day

    Technical Sergeant Robert Mills stuffs Tech. Sgt. Dustin Staude in the championship game of the 3 on 3 basketball tournament during Family Day September 7. Jet Life and ISO Boys were the two teams in the championship game. Jet Life consisted of Staude, Tech. Sgt. Nick Charles and Senior Airman

  • Tinker coordinating event honoring original ‘Rosies’

    Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald dominated the 1940s airwaves. Gene Autry and Roy Rogers sang in films. The United States government implemented a rationing system. Men went off to war and women went to work. World War II hit the country hard, but its citizens

  • Tinker Bearing Shop eyes repairs

    The Bearing Shop operated by the 76th Commodities Maintenance Group is positioning itself to get back into the business of repairing aircraft bearings.Tinker's Bearing Shop is a Level 1 operation, in which bearings are cleaned, inspected, measured, packaged and preserved. Repairs are performed in

  • 72nd ABW/SC director moving on

    James "Mike" Doolin will step down in November after three years and four months as director of the Communications Directorate and deputy chief information officer of the 72nd Air Base Wing.His last day at Tinker will be Nov. 2. However, even though he has 37 years of military and civilian federal

  • AFNET migration nears finish here

    Every desktop computer at Tinker and all associated electronic mailboxes have been migrated to the Air Force Network, officials in the 72nd Air Base Wing Communications Directorate said recently.The migration involved 17,954 computers and the 24,054 mailboxes (some users have more than one mailbox,

  • Air Force outlines sequestration impacts

    The Air Force may have to "cut vertically" in fiscal 2014 to achieve the savings needed under sequestration, the service's acting secretary said here Monday. Everything is on the table, Eric Fanning said in a media roundtable at the Air Force Association's annual meeting.He would not confirm reports