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  • Biometric IDs coming to Tinker

    Tinker will soon join the ranks of Air Force bases around the globe utilizing a new security system that will eventually be used across the Department of Defense.     The Defense Biometric Identification System, or DBIDS, is a Homeland Security/DOD initiative to manage personnel, property and

  • Reducing the waste in water

    Waste water isn't something that immediately comes to mind when you think of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. But for the people at Tinker's Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant, it's a commodity that is always on their minds. And they have plenty of it to stay busy.      Each day almost a

  • Inspectors ready to grade safety, health in Tinker’s workplace, environments

         Assessment teams from Air Force Materiel Command headquarters will perform an assessment of Tinker's environmental, safety and occupational health programs Aug. 23-27.      Are you prepared?     The external Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Compliance Assessment and Management

  • AAFES working double time to correct inadvertent charges

    Numerous transactions at Army and Air Force Exchange operations are experiencing a double whammy no one saw coming; a processing error resulting in duplicate charges on credit and debit card transactions.     "Shoppers who swiped their cards anytime between Aug. 7 and Aug. 9 at an AAFES facility are

  • DOD child care fees change

         The Department of Defense announced a new child care fee policy that will help pay for child care services, including staff for child development centers and school-age care programs.      The school year 2010/2011 policy will be implemented on Sept. 27.     The policy, a change in the income

  • CSD delivers loss to 552nd OSS

    It was a game of almosts and what ifs for the 552nd Operational Support Squadron. As they struggled against their fleet-of-foot CSD Navy foes Tuesday night, it was clear their game plan was all hitch and no giddy up. CSD showed up ready for the bout and put their foes away 12-6.     The milk turned

  • Lizards White wavers, drops Cogito Ergo Boom in close second match

    For whatever reason, it seems like those five minutes between matches is some kind of Kryptonite for the Leapin Lizards White. Or so their typically sluggish second match performance suggests. They'd dealt the knock-out blow to the upstanding Cogito Ergo Boom squad in the teams' first match Tuesday

  • Nordiques fall in playoffs

         Though it's a bitter pill to swallow, victory was never really in the Nordiques grasp in what was the first round of summer league playoffs Sunday. With a bursting stable of skaters, it seemed the Tinker Division Two team was primed for a win in the Aug. 15 matchup with the Warriors.      But

  • Tinker duo finishes Edmond tri in top 10

         For triathlete Travis Newton, doing nothing before the race turned out to be the best game plan. With graciously more mild temperatures than the week prior, the triathletes of the Aug. 15 Hillapalooza Triathlon in Edmond had more to exert amid stiff competition.      The second annual

  • Thumpers steal co-ed championship

         The intramural softball co-ed championship Aug. 12 began as anyone's game. But, five innings later as the 72nd Med Group held onto a steady lead, it was the Thumpers who snatched a 16-8 victory.      Played at Championship Field, the game started slow. The Med Group held onto the lead by a