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  • 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

  • New 552nd ACW/CC to observe before acting

    Col. John Rauch said he doesn't have an "elaborate over-arching goal or master plan." But, what the new 552nd Air Control Wing commander does have is a desire to maintain the integrity, history and legacy of excellence in America's Wing.Colonel Rauch arrived in Oklahoma City in early July from

  • Tinker optometrists eye new patients during Shared Accord 2010

     Stepahno Shivanbe didn't know much English, but he knew enough to say, "Thank you. Thank you very much." So that's all he repeated, time and time again, as he walked out of the exam room -- an olive drab shipping container marked "Optometry." The elderly man was one of the first patients treated at

  • Tinker’s recovery care coordinator soon to receive help

    What started as a good thing for ill, injured or wounded Airmen at Tinker just got even better. While it's impossible to put a number on what the upstart Air Force Wounded Warrior Program brings to Airmen, several new recovery care coordinators are going to try. In August, 15 new RCCs began work for