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  • AAFES employee home after 30-month stint in Iraq

    Lisa Martin had unfinished business to settle. It was early 2007 when the Tinker Army and Air Force Exchange Service sales associate realized she had to go back. She still can't quite explain it, but she couldn't deny the impulse. She was heading back to Iraq. For nine months in 2006 Ms. Martin had

  • Med Group sinks Navy, earns top tourney seed

    If you asked the Gym Rats, they weren't scared Tuesday night. Not even mildly concerned. They knew they would win, even though the situation looked dire. Security Forces had just stormed 80-yards downfield in five plays and went up 14-9 against the Rats in the final moments of the fourth quarter. As

  • Gym Rats drop SFS in final moments

    It was the clash of the unbeatens April 19 and there was much to be lost on the intramural soccer pitch. With win-loss-tie records even across the board at 7-0-1, the Medical Group and Navy teams were fighting for top-seeding in the impending season tournament. Though the Sailors have had nothing

  • Team Tinker wins doubleheader

    Eric "Ski" Szymanski was not taking any chances. As the first of two back-to-back softball games got under way, Szymanski hurriedly removed the bats from a wood holder in the dugout, claiming it was bad luck. He leaned them against the fenced dugout cage. But, luck and skill was already on Team

  • Orienteering, sailing classes on schedule at Outdoor Recreation

    Adventure is the name of the game at Outdoor Recreation.An Orienteering Class will be held May 22-23. On May 22, students will meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Outdoor Recreation. The group will travel to the Wichita Mountain National Wildlife Refuge from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 23 for the outdoor course.

  • Earth Day ties into an Air Force core value

    "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." -New England proverb -- Perhaps because I grew up in a large family, the proverb above became an ingrained practice. Some people today may think this attitude is dated, as if it were pulled from a Depression-era Farmer's Almanac. For me though,

  • Electronic Systems Center, Tinker share plans for E-3 mods

    Tinker welcomed top AWACS experts and a Boeing support team April 6 to discuss the logistics of the Block 40/45 modification project. The $2.9-billion initiative upgrades the computer systems, ground systems and infrastructure throughout the entire E-3 AWACS fleet. Boeing, a partner in the project,

  • ALC senior leaders improve goals for the future

    Senior leaders, an American Federation of Government Employees representative and Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center customers and suppliers met last week to discuss progress-to-date in meeting the ALC's fiscal 2010 strategic goals and to set improvement targets for fiscal 2011. The theme was

  • Officials name new director of 448th SCMW

    The director of the Defense Logistics Agency announced March 18 the selection of Gilbert J. Montoya, a senior DLA official, as the next director of the 448th Supply Chain Manage-ment Wing at the Air Force Global Logistics Support Center, Air Force Materiel Command at Tinker."Gil's leadership over

  • Gate closed for construction

    Midwest Boulevard Gate is under construction. Having closed April 13, it is not scheduled to reopen until July 12.To ease traffic during the construction, a temporary gate is open approximately one-half mile west of the Midwest Boulevard Gate, just south of Bldg. 9001. Drivers are asked to be