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  • Friends don’t let friends forget about safety

    We've heard talk about being a good Wingman and how it relates to safety time and time again. Is it "lip service" or is it valid? The answer depends upon your perspective. Perspective in this case means whether or not you've experienced the death or injury of a family member, friend or co-worker due

  • 3rd Herd celebrates 56-year heritage

    Throughout its 56 years of existence, the 3rd Combat Communications Group has been "an elite combat support outfit," retired Brig. Gen. Randy Witt said here recently. "This combat communications business really is different for the Air Force. It's combat support work."General Witt, along with

  • Colonel Guillot brags on his Airmen

    When Col. Greg Guillot arrived at Tinker nearly a year ago to lead the 552nd Air Control Wing he said he was excited about the assignment. Having already been stationed here several times before, he knew firsthand the spirit, talent and capabilities of its Airmen. Now, as he prepares for his next

  • Colonel Beierle reflects on career

    Surely "Pumpkinhead" would be proud, Team Tinker is certainly pleased. On June 14, Col. Mark Beierle will retire from a distinguished 27-year Air Force career, of which four years were spent here. Though he is currently an Air Force Lifecycle Management Center special assistant, he has also served

  • Military service a family affair for Colonel Fisher

    Military service is a family tradition to Col. John Fisher, the B-52 system program manager at Tinker.His father was a colonel and deputy commander for the AWACS program at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., in the 1970s. His father-in-law was a helicopter pilot who saw combat in the Vietnam War. And

  • Navy's Captain Baker retires today

    Commodore Charles "Chuck" Baker, commander of Strategic Communications Wing 1 and Task Force 124, retires this morning after a rewarding 27-year career in the United States Navy.Captain Baker, who has been in charge for the past 14½ months, will surrender command to Capt. Heather Cole at 10 a.m.

  • Air Force excepts civilians affected by recent tornadoes from furlough

    The Air Force announced Monday, that civilian employees whose homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the recent Oklahoma tornadoes will be "excepted" from administrative furlough.While most Air Force civilian employees received their notices May 28, Tinker Air Force Base delayed notifying

  • Disaster assistance expands to include more storms and canadian county

    Homeowners, renters and business owners in Canadian County who sustained damage as a result of recent back-to-back storms may now apply for state and federal disaster assistance. The federal disaster declaration now covers damage incurred by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes May 18 through June

  • Tinker wins partnership award

    Tinker's reputation for excellence extends beyond the perimeter fence.Recently, the City of Midwest City nominated Tinker for a 2013 Association of Defense Community award. The award recognizes "an installation whose efforts to build strong partnerships with the local community, region or state on

  • AF excepts civilians affected by tornadoes from furlough

    The Air Force announced Monday, June 3, that civilian employees whose homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the recent Oklahoma tornados will be "excepted" from administrative furlough.While most Air Force civilian employees received their notices May 28, Tinker Air Force Base delayed