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  • Reaper engine work coming to Tinker

    Tinker AFB will have a key role in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper engines.The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex will service the Reaper's Honeywell TPE331-10GD turboprop engine. Tinker civilian employees perform depot maintenance on B-52 and B-1B bombers, E-3

  • 76th PMXG commander to retire after 25-year career

    When Col. Bob Helgeson arrived at Tinker three years ago to assume command of the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, "The engines were managing us," he recalls.The Defense Logistics Agency, the Life Cycle Management propulsion team, Original Equipment Manufacturers and 448th Supply Chain Management

  • 448th SCMW director aims for forecast accuracy

    The new director of the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, Steven K. Alsup, is focused on achieving a 70 percent Demand Forecast Accuracy Rate, "which will be a world-class benchmark when we hit it." Many major corporations "would love to even come close to 70 percent."From July 2012 until Mr.

  • Colonel Vician leads 72nd MSG

    A host of civilian and military personnel from Tinker AFB gave a warm sendoff recently to the outgoing commander of the 72nd Mission Support Group, Col. Julie Boit, and greeted the new commander, Col. Todd Vician."Today we bid farewell to a devoted leader" and welcome her successor, "another

  • Greening Tinker: Base buys 8 CNG pickups

    Tinker has acquired eight new pickups that are powered by compressed natural gas, a fuel that is cheaper and burns cleaner than gasoline and is plentiful in Oklahoma."We want to get even more of them," and probably will as vehicles in the base motor-pool fleet wear out, said Earl Wade, deputy

  • AF leaders stand behind civilians during tough furlough times

    Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III send the following furlough message to the Airmen of the United States Air Force:As you all know, Department of Defense civilian furloughs begin this week. With few exceptions, our civilian Airmen face

  • American Red Cross Prepares to Transition to Long-Term Recovery

    The American Red Cross, along with partner agencies, will be taking another step toward long-term recovery in Oklahoma following the May tornadoes. The Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) located at Westmoore High School will be transitioning to long-term recovery on July 3. The transition does not

  • Silver Flag exercise trains, prepares 'Okie' civil engineers

    Twenty-nine Reservists of the 507th Civil Engineer Squadron "deployed" to a simulated location with the goal of setting up, establishing and running a fully operational base in a contingency environment. The week long training exercise, better known as Silver Flag, was hosted at the Tyndall AFB,

  • Maintenance crews train to recover disabled aircraft

    Maintenance crews from the 137th and 507th Air Refueling Wings came together for a crash damaged disabled aircraft recovery (CDDAR) exercise at the Aircraft Battle Damage Repair (ABDR) facility on June 20. The CDDAR is an annual exercise designed to give members of the crash teams a real world

  • Retirement ceremony honors four military working dogs

    Four 72nd Security Forces Squadron military working dogs were honored at a retirement ceremony held in their honor June 25. Attendees gathered for the event in the 552nd Operations Group auditorium. With pomp and circumstance, the service praised the careers of Arras M108, Blacky J344, Cita L704 and