Trick-or-treating hours set for base housing

Halloween is an exciting time of the year for children. Tinker Air Force Base strives to make the holiday as safe as possible. Trick-or-treating in base housing areas will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31. Parents are asked to accompany their young children during trick-or-treating and to use

Air Force reservists participate in Red Flag Exercise

Twenty-three reservists from the 513th Air Control Group recently returned from participating in an 18-day deployment exercise at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The exercise, called Red Flag-Alaska, is a realistic, 10-day air combat multi-service exercise.The 513th ACG is an Air Force Reserve group

ACC commander to be featured speaker for 552nd Air Control Wing heritage event

Commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mike Hostage, is set to speak at the 552nd's Heritage Celebration dinner Oct. 27. General Hostage, the former 552nd Air Control wing commander who served from 2002 to 2004, says he is looking forward to returning to Oklahoma to share in the wing's heritage

AFLCMC commander meets with base personnel

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is tasked with one overriding mission: meet the warfighter's needs with effective, affordable, on-time solutions, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, commander of the AFLCMC, said during a "town hall" meeting recently at Tinker Air Force Base.The AFLCMC was established

TACAMO Navy Ball celebrates service’s 237th birthday

Strategic Communications Wing ONE at Tinker Air Force Base celebrated the Navy's 237th birthday recently, along with the bicentennial of the War of 1812, which was "the genesis" of the U.S. Navy.The Continental Congress established the Continental Navy on Oct. 13, 1775, by authorizing the

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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