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  • Thanks to teamwork,Tinker manning has rapid growth

    Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center leadership tasked its personnel in July with a lofty assignment: hire 400 new maintenance employees by Oct. 14. With less than a month until the deadline, personnel have made significant strides and credit their success to teamwork. To ensure hiring objectives were

  • Technical Order Warehouse closes doors

    With mixed emotion, Rhonda Stacy visited Tinker's Technical Order Warehouse Sept. 11 for what presumably would be the last time. She was one of nearly 50 people who attended the closing ceremony in Bldg. 3. Guests, including Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center leadership and former employees, such as

  • New leader takes over OSI Det

    Special Agent Danny Powers sat behind a large desk. Dressed in civilian clothes, the new commander of Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 114 spoke about goals for the unit. Special Agent Powers, who succeeded Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Angelo in late August, said the detachment

  • Commanders Action Line: Space heaters

    Q:Our director recently enforced a new policy of not allowing personal heaters. Has this policy become official base wide? A: Occupational Safety and Health Standard 91-501 places the responsibility on organizational leadership for providing a safe and healthy working area. Your supervisor must

  • Think safety: school in session

    The days are a little cooler now, and there's a crisp feeling to the air which is filled with the sounds of children groaning. It can only mean one thing: school is back in session. And, after a summer filled with easy driving with seemingly little traffic, the transition to crowded roadways teeming

  • Roadmap laid out for success in ORI

    The Operations Readiness Inspection is 42 days away and in advance of the Inspector General's visit, the 72nd Air Base Wing Plans and Programs office has a few tips for everyone to remember. This is the first in a series of articles to be published leading up to the inspection. Tips for Success: ·

  • Pivotal success

    A B-1 sits in the hangar surrounded by scaffolding. Stripped of paint, the aluminum skin glistens under the work lights as mechanics reach inside access panels or consult technical orders. "It pretty much has all the references," says aircraft mechanic Tate Valentine of the technical orders. "But

  • DLA-OKC will join agency’s computer network

    More than 350 Defense Logistics Agency employees at Tinker Air Force Base will soon have direct access to agency information technology tools. The employees are part of DLA's aviation demand and supply chain, Defense Supply Center Richmond, based in Richmond, Va. The extension of the DLA enclave is

  • Aces High Award

    Senior Airman April M. Song, 72nd Comptroller Squadron, recently won the Air Force Comptroller Aces High award. Airman Song is a customer service technician assigned to the 72nd Comptroller Squadron. Airman Song was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She worked as a licensed financial consultant

  • Ponder competes in Ironman

    In his "list of things to do when I turn 50," Danny Ponder had a unique entry: participate in an Ironman distance event. After the Ironman Louisville, Ky., on Aug. 29, Ponder can put a checkmark beside that "to do." Though he's participated in half Ironman events and triathlons in the past, they