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  • 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

  • Civilians must create eOPF account to access records

    Air Force Personnel Center officials are reminding Air Force civilian employees that they need to create their Office of Personnel Management electronic Official Personnel Folder account in order to access their personnel records.The OPM eOPF application, which replaced the Air Force Civilian

  • 507th MXG superintendent retires after 34 years

    In 1978, a 20-year-old construction worker from Colorado Springs Colo., decided to stop commuting from Colorado Springs to the Kansas border so that he might find a more steady paying career in the United States Air Force. On Aug. 9, 1978, Steven Wright left for basic training to embark on a career

  • 38th CEIG/CC is a believer in communication

    According to an old adage, "Home is where the Air Force sends you." But, to Col. Eric DeLange, his new Oklahoma "home" is much more. It's where he said he belongs. Just look inside his 38th Cyberspace Engineering Installation Group command office. There, sitting on an end table is a cylindrical jar