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  • Air Force Assistance Fund moving toward Tinker goal

    It's a well-known fact that the Air Force takes care of its own. Each year that ethos is reinforced, in part, by donations of numerous individuals all focused on one goal: helping out their fellow Airmen in need.Since its inception, the Air Force has instituted its official charity, the Air Force

  • Up to the challenge: Space Command comm units face off in graded combat

    After only a few minutes outside, everyone was soaked to the bone. It hadn't taken long from the 7 a.m. start time for Airmen at the Glenwood Training Area to realize they weren't going home with even an inch of dry uniform. So it was that the rain kept falling April 17, on the first competition day

  • 2010 officer selection board criteria released

    Brigadier general selection board Eligibility criteria for the 2010 Brigadier General selection board (Board ID: B0711A): Colonels on the active duty list in the Line of the Air Force, Line of the Air Force - Judge Advocate, and Medical Corps competitive categories. Chaplains, Dental Corps, Medical

  • Crime doesn’t pay

    The following are actual accounts of crimes recently committed by members of Team Tinker.The Tinker Take Off will regularly publish "Crime Doesn't Pay" to inform readers of criminal acts to be alert for and to deter and prevent further criminal behavior from taking place on base.· A master sergeant

  • AAFES vice commander visits Tinker, discusses base exchange renovation

    Tinker is making history ... again. Army and Air Force Exchange Service has selected Tinker's main store to be the first of its facilities to undergo a "major new branding image upgrade." Brig. Gen. Francis "Fran" Hendricks, AAFES vice commander, who visited the Base Exchange from Dallas April 8

  • 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.