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  • 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

  • VQ-7 routs 72nd CONS, looks to playoffs

    In a league that seems to thrive on a good blow out, Thursday night's game was no exception. It was 26-0 with only two quarters of football played, with the scales tipped in VQ-7's favor. The championship hopefuls -- who fell to the Gym Rats in last year's championship game -- looked good against

  • TACAMO wins big

    Strategic Communications Wing ONE was presented the 2008 Omaha Trophy Strategic Aircraft Operations Award by Gen. Kevin Chilton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and Jack Baker, a member of the Strategic Command Consultation Committee, during a ceremony at Tinker Air

  • President nominates new AFMC vice

    The President has nominated Maj. Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger, director of the Intelligence and Requirements Directorate at Air Force Materiel Command, for confirmation by the Senate to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment to the position of AFMC vice commander. As vice commander of AFMC,