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  • Information Assurance: it’s everyone’s responsibility

    Securing systems on Tinker's network is of the utmost importance to the 72nd Air Base Wing ABW Communications Directorate.After a network is registered, certified and accredited, a level of security is determined. Maintaining it and protecting the network from outside cyber threats is a top priority

  • Wing names Wildcatter Award winners

    Staff Sgt. Lisa VinceletteIMA Chaplain Assistant72nd ABW Chapel staffSergeant Vicellette is an individual mobilization augmentee activated to fill a critical shortage in chaplain assistants when four active duty assistants were not available for duty. Supervisors say she performed duties two to

  • Leadership opportunities available as Special Emphasis Program Manager

    Are you looking for new challenges? Are you interested in promoting equal opportunity for all people? Would you like to be in a position to make a difference? If so, you could be one of Tinker Air Force Base's next Special Emphasis Program Managers.Be on the look-out -- the Affirmative Employment

  • Youth Center to hold ‘Healthy Families Fair’

    On May 1, The Tinker Youth Center will hold a "Healthy Families Fair" to kick off National Health and Fitness Month. The purpose of the fair is to offer families resources to maintain healthy lifestyles, especially when a family member is away. A parent who is healthy both mentally and physically

  • Gym Rats pounce Reserve White, scamper to victory

    There was no need to point out the error in Reserve White's ways April 13. They already knew. With their 50-yard touchdown play from quarterback Randy Schell to receiver Jim Gassoway in the second quarter, they'd dealt a heavy blow to their Gym Rats opponents as they went up 6-0. It was a knock down

  • Can-Am Cup looms, teams brace for April 23 clash

    When Canadian Master Corporal Chris Walsh first stepped on Tinker soil two years ago, he knew one thing: he wasn't in Kansas anymore. Or Winnipeg, rather, his de facto northern hometown. The Maple Leaf Airman was starting a new duty assignment in Sooner country. But little did he know that he would

  • Tinker knocks Cosmos out of this world

    Despite many goal attempts by the Cosmos April 11, only Tinker scored. The men's varsity soccer team beat the Cosmos 1-0.The two teams met up at field six of the South Lakes Soccer Club on Southwest 119th Street in Oklahoma City. The Cosmos attempted at least eight goals before half time. Tinker

  • Navy spikes Dissa for win

    It was anybody's match to win going into the second period as Navy went up against Dissa on the soccer pitch April 13. In the end the land-locked sailors decided they wanted it more and claimed the win 3-2 Tuesday night. The fruit finally came for the Navy, following a scoreless first period where

  • Redbud runners place first

    It was a hot day as joggers made their way down blossoming tree-lined avenues in Oklahoma City. Temperatures spiked while water stations every two miles helped the perspiring participants. But that didn't stop 7,000 runners from pinning on a number and running the Oklahoma City Redbud Classic April