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  • CC Message – Furlough Updates

    I'm coming to you with news on furloughs - news that does not come lightly or without great personal impact to our workforce. The Department of Defense has announced that they will furlough most non-deployed civilians for up to 11 days. The furlough period is scheduled to begin July 8, with one

  • Hagel Explains Furloughs in Message to Workforce

    In a message to the Defense Department workforce, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today explained why he "very reluctantly" decided that a historic budget shortfall necessitates up to 11 unpaid furlough days for most of the department's civilian employees between July 8 and the Sept. 30 end of the

  • Services set for Tinker Airman

    Services for an Airman assigned to the 552nd Operations Support Squadron at Tinker, one of four Airmen killed while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, will be held Monday at Rose State College in Midwest City.Services for Staff Sgt. Daniel N. Fannin, 30, of Morehead, Ky., a former

  • Tinker AFLCMC units mark successes

    Tinker personnel attached to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have achieved several significant successes in recent months, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, the commander, highlighted recently.· B-1 personnel fielded two quick-reaction software changes that provided additional combat capability and

  • ‘State of AFLCMC’ Commander visits Tinker, speaks at annual Dining Out

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is "on the path" to becoming "an integrated team focused on acquisition and product support for the warfighter," the commander, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, said recently. "We have made significant progress toward forging into one team delivering integrated,

  • Tinker civilian wins Air Force award

    Mike Mowles wasn't the first, second or third person to learn the big news. In fact, he may have been one of the last to learn he won an Air Force-level award.The 2012 Air Force Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez award for the Civilian Manager-category recipient didn't nominate himself, nor was he aware when his

  • AFMC commander visits Sustainment Center, air logistics complexes

    Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger and AFMC Command Chief, Chief Master Sgt. Michael Warner visited the command's air logistics complexes the week of April 15 for the first time since AFMC declared initial operational capability of its 5-Center reorganization Oct. 1,

  • NASA’s Super Guppy has two-week stay at Tinker

    They were welcomed back and welcomed home. Although a quick trip, it proved invaluable for NASA and DynCorp International aircraft mechanic Bob Coyne.Over the past two weeks ending today, a team of NASA engineers, four contracted mechanics and one supervisor camped out in a Tinker hangar. Using base