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  • Space Camp scholarships available

    ir Force Services Child and Youth Programs is sponsoring the Air Force Space Camp Program at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The camp is scheduled to be conducted July 25-30. The center is the premier provider of authentic, inspiring and entertaining educational experiences in

  • Gym Rats put the SHO on ice

    In the classic matchup between good and evil, it was the darkly-clad team -- seemingly evil -- that ruled the court Tuesday night. If the flag football championships of last December were any indicator of things to come, then the title-holding Gym Rats could be riding high going into the intramural

  • Nordiques rebound from loss, put away Yettis

    Although it was a Sunday, the Nordiques were all business. And if last week's loss was a disruption of the norm, then the Nordiques didn't show any lingering defects this week. Facing a short bench of substitutes, the Nordiques still powered their way over the Rabid Yettis 6-4 Feb. 14, and improved

  • AFMC units partner to supply receivers, to keep B-1s flying

    Units from across Air Force Materiel Command banded together recently to stock more of a critical avionics part that will keep B-1s flying.During the first phase of the Repair Network Integration initiative, AFMC's logistics division studied the process in which B-1 Bomber Band 4-8 receivers are

  • Deployed Tinker Airman helps keep E-3 Sentry aircraft flying

    When it comes to keeping the E-3 Sentry aircraft flying combat missions in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan, Senior Airman Robert Kirby, an instrument and flight control systems journeyman, maintains the airborne warning and control system aircraft so it's fully mission capable every time.The

  • Transformation expert makes regular visits, eyes productivity

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center's mission is to "deliver and sustain air power ... anytime, anyplace," and the transformation process is helping them achieve that goal more efficiently. Don Doles, a retired executive from the Danaher Corporation and an expert on transformation and process

  • Preventing the ‘second wave’

    Cases of seasonal and H1N1 flu viruses are on the rise in Oklahoma, indicating the start of the "second wave" of the fall and winter flu season. Outbreaks of the flu were widespread last year and national health officials are predicting the resumption of the flu season this month in a traditional

  • Tinker’s Canadian airmen support airborne control in Southwest Asia

    To any other member of the 965th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, the five Canadian airmen who work with them are a part of the team. And that's just the way they like it.Each day the five Canadians work together as part of a crew on an E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system

  • Preparation first step in Tinker tornado safety

    There are few words in the English language that bring about as much concern as the word "tornado." Of all nature's moods, this is perhaps the most violent. Though not as large-scale as a hurricane, or as long-lived as a Nor'easter, this particular severe weather event has occurred in every state,