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  • Thanksgiving Day tops in cooking-related fires

    According to the U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Protection Association, Thanksgiving is the leading day of the year for home fires that involve cooking equipment with more than 4,000 fires occurring nationwide, double the amount compared to an average day. Also, the NFPA discourages the

  • Show squadron spirit in annual holiday competition

    There is still a week and a half left to create a card and show your squadron spirit in the annual Holiday Card Competition.All squadrons, base and private organizations are invited to participate in the annual competition, hosted by the 72nd Force Support Squadron. This year's theme is "Squadron

  • Medics finally win flag football title

    The 72nd Medical Group finally captured a base flag football championship, beating the perennial powerhouse Gym Rats in back-to-back games Nov. 8.In the first duel, the Rats rallied from a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to knot the game at 19-19, sending the game into overtime.Because

  • Open season set for 3 civilian benefits programs

    Open season for three civilian benefits programs will be Nov. 12 through Dec. 10, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. Those programs are the Federal Employees Health Benefits Pro-gram, the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Pro-gram and the Federal Flexible Spending Account

  • Tinker Airmen graduate from CCAF

    "Airmen who thrive on learning" are needed today to help increase combat capability, safeguard democracy at home and create freedom in places where citizens had never dreamed of being free, Col. Gregory Guillot asserted Tuesday. The colonel, commander of the 552nd Air Control Wing, was the guest

  • Tinker almost two-thirds of the way to CFC goal

    Tinker Air Force Base is nearly two-thirds of the way toward meeting its fund-raising goal in the 2012 Central Oklahoma Department of Defense Combined Federal Campaign.By the end of Monday, Tinker had reached 63 percent of its goal, CFC Coordinator Stacia Hathorn reported.The annual campaign began

  • Commentary - Please remember all our veterans

    Our country's history is anchored by a necessity to preserve and protect the fundamental principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...whenever, and wherever it threatens our basic freedom. Since the founding of our Nation, this has required sacrifice in life, blood, and sweat of Men

  • 169 to graduate from CCAF in Nov. 6 ceremony

    The 2012 Fall Community College of the Air Force graduation will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Tinker Club. Nearly 170 CCAF graduates -- who achieved a total of 181 associate in Applied Science degrees -- will be honored. The graduates represent the six Air Force commands on Tinker AFB: Air Force

  • Extensive energy improvements envisioned

    Major renovations are envisioned at Tinker under the public/private Energy Savings Performance Contract that was celebrated Tuesday.According to Mark McWhirter, Tinker's new Base Energy Manager, Bldg. 5802, the Central Heating Plant, will be mothballed; Bldg. 208 and Bldg. 2212, a booster plant that

  • Tinker to undergo energy retrofit

    The largest domestic energy retrofit project in the U.S. Air Force will be launched soon at Tinker Air Force Base through a public-private partnership.The project will remove 56 buildings from the base's steam grid and thereby reduce water consumption by almost 20 million gallons annually, will trim