Performers needed for Tinker Idol Season 2

Are you ready to be the new singing star of Tinker Idol? If so, hurry over to the Tinker Club or go online to www.tinkerservices.com for an entry form. Applications are due by April 2. Officials deemed last year's event a success and anticipate this year's to be even better. Every seat was full for

Golf course etiquette is really game of good manners

Etiquette is an important element of life, and plays a very big part in the game of golf. Golf is sometimes referred to as a gentlemen's game, dating back for centuries and steeped in tradition. Golf etiquette can be intimidating, but if one considers that etiquette is simply good manners, it

552nd MXS sinks SCW-1 with OT buzzer beater

Championship games are often billed as the "best of the best." The 2009 version of base basketball championship -- pitting the 552nd Maintenance Squadron against Strategic Communications Wing ONE -- lived up to that billing. The night ended with a 35-34 overtime victory by 552nd MXS squad March 11

Tinker Sailor supports Blazers

Jeff Migdal, a Sailor with Fleet Reconnaissance Squadron FOUR at Tinker, recently came to the rescue of the local minor league hockey team. After one of the Oklahoma City Blazers' regular goalies had to leave the team due to a family emergency, Migdal got a call from the head coach asking him to

Tinker Hawks skate past P-Men

The Tinker Can Am Hawks continued their winning ways with a 4-3 victory over the pesky P-Men in Oklahoma City Adult Hockey League Division II action at the Arctic Edge Ice Arena on March 15. The Hawks came into the contest clinging to a one point lead in the standings and were looking to keep their

Gen. Hoffman visits Tinker

The commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, Gen. Donald Hoffman, will hold a Town Hall meeting at 10 a.m. March 13. The meeting will be held at the Tinker Theater. Seating has been allocated for the event by unit. Shuttle service is available from Bldg. 3001 and Bldg. 478 starting at 8:45 a.m.

AMC logistics director visits Tinker

Fuels going green

An estimated $1 million project to construct a new alternative fuels station is in the works here, according to the 72nd Logistics Readiness Squadron. If approved by the Defense Energy Support Center, the proposed service station would house four, 12,000 gallon above-ground tanks containing

5th MRS mission: improve Air Force

They work by the Latin phrase, "A posse ad esse," meaning "from possibility to reality." Situated in Bldg. 201W, 5th Manpower Requirements Squadron personnel spend day-in and day-out ensuring the Air Force runs as efficiently as possible. And, despite the sometimes unpleasant reality 5th MRS

Tower crew averts aircraft disaster

Experience and alertness prevented a dangerous situation from turning deadly with the landing of a multi-million dollar RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base on Feb. 13. At the end of a 24-hour flight from overseas deployment, the aircraft diverted from its snow-bound home base