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552nd ACW wins first base-wide energy conservation competition

The 552nd Air Control Wing has set the standard and is the winner of Tinker's first Off We Go Energy Reduction Competition. Over the course of the summer, personnel in the wing's headquarters' building decreased energy consumption by 24 percent over what was used in the same period during fiscal

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Navy Security beaten but unbowed in flag football

President Theodore Roosevelt famously asserted that "credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because ... if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly..."Those

Reserve White bombs Ironmen

What started as a defensive struggle became a rout, as Air Force Reserve White bombed the Navy VQ-3 Ironmen, 25-6, in a base flag football game that featured four interceptions.On the Navy's opening drive, a pass to receiver Shayne Hughes gained 13 yards and quarterback Michael Rankin scrambled to

Foreign Military Sales a billion-dollar business

Foreign Military Sales are big business to the U.S. Air Force.Brig. Gen. James Haywood, director of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the overall administrator of a $128.3 billion portfolio supporting Foreign Military Sales to

Little changes to Tinker thermostats save big money

Temperature set points work. Over the course of the summer, Bldg. 3001 and the facilities linked to substation No. 2 decreased its electrical consumption from last year by 7 percent; the base as a whole decreased by 8 percent. Much of that savings is directly related to setting the buildings'

Former 552nd ACW commander looking forward to celebrating wing’s heritage

Ben T. Robinson knows a thing or two about the heritage of the 552nd Air Control Wing.After all, the retired brigadier general served as a captain pilot on the E-3 "Sentry" Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft back in the 1980s, returned to the wing for another stint as the Operations Group

FMS more than just hardware

Foreign Military Sales involve more than bombs and bullets.It includes support equipment and flight line vehicles, instrument landing equipment and radar systems, maintenance and specialized training -- "much more than end items," said Brig. Gen. James Haywood, director of the Air Force Security

AFSAC supports aged systems

The U.S. Air Force supports a vast array of weapons systems -- even some that are 60 to 70 years old -- for its myriad foreign partners."A lot of what we support is no longer in our inventory, but we still support it because that's what our partners need," Brig. Gen. James Haywood said during a