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  • AF announces AFMC leadership changes

    Air Force officials announced Thursday several Air Force Materiel Command senior leader retirements and assignments. Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, will retire effective April 1, 2010. Maj. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, National Reconnaissance Office deputy

  • Winter fire prevention tips

    Following a few simple reminders during the cold weather season will ensure our safety at work and home, so we don't find ourselves left out in the cold. Keeping doors and windows closed prevents fire sprinklers from freezing and reduces energy costs. Several times per year, frozen sprinkler pipes

  • More fed jobs open for military spouses

    A new executive policy has pushed open the door for qualifying military spouses to enter the federal work force, enabling them to apply for more jobs advertised on USAJOBS. Executive Order 13473, which went into effect Sept. 11, 2009, identified three groups of qualifying spouses now eligible to

  • EN quarterly awards

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Engineering and Technical Management Directorate recently named its Employee and Team of the Quarter. Employee of the Quarter: Kenneth Wimer is a program analyst in the Enterprise Engineering Division. The unit has been front and center on the Air Force

  • Tinker Airmen take flag-folding tradition to local middle school

    For 90 years the Unites States has used Nov. 11 as a day to remember the service and sacrifice of veterans, both living and dead. But for retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Don Huff, a geography teacher at Taft Middle School in Oklahoma City, he used Veterans Day to bring history to life. Each

  • Tinker boxers hold their own against stiff competition

    Tinker boxing Coach Lavell Sims did what few coaches would, especially given the circumstances. And in the sport of boxing it's not a common sight to see. But as any fighter knows, boxing is not for the common man. And neither is Sims' coaching style. "I think (Sims) brought in fighters that are up