Paper airplane exercise reveals power of AFSO21 tools

It was hard for me to imagine how eight adults building paper airplanes could do much to enhance Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century efforts here at Tinker, but I was in for a huge surprise. For the past few months I have been part of a Lean Institute at Tinker Air Force Base Green Belt

Keeping the BlackBerry patch wired

Exchange installs electronic surveillance

With a dual enduring mission to provide quality merchandise and services at competitively low prices and generate earnings to support Morale, Welfare and Recreation programs, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service is enlisting the support of the latest in loss prevention technology to protect

Airman excels on career exam

Airman 1st Class Ryan Merrill, 34th Combat Communications Squadron, recently passed his Career Development Course: Satellite, Wideband, and Telemetry Systems Journeyman, with an outstanding score. Airman Merrill is a Satcom crewmember. He helps maintain, configure and operate a variety of mobile,

IDEA earns 327th ACSW member cash award

The Innovative Development through Employee Awareness program is an incentive program that rewards people for improving their processes and saving the government money. The program rewards submissions at different rates based on the monetary savings of the IDEA and whether it is inside or outside of

Wing names Wildcatter award winners

Hudson George, transient alert aircraft mechanic, 72nd OSS Mr. George provided assistance in the recovery and launch of the presidential C-20 back-up aircraft. He assisted Sheppard and Nellis AFB maintenance recovery teams, saving 26 aircraft-downtime hours. He broadened his skills on with each new

AtHoc coming to base computers

Air Force Materiel Command and Air Combat Command have purchased a desktop alerting system known as AtHoc. This system is already installed on ACC and AFMC client computers. What will AtHoc do? It could save lives. AtHoc will have the ability to activate the outdoor Installation Warning System, send

Parents appreciate caregiver’s dedication

As a young girl in Italy, she liked working with children and enjoyed babysitting the neighborhood kids. So being a child care provider seemed to come natural for Valentina Jones. Mrs. Jones was named 2009 Family Child Care Provider for the first quarter, January through March. In the future, Mrs.

Next Heart Link program for military spouses set for Feb. 17

Military spouses are special people. They join the military without having to take an oath, their spouses deploy for months on end and they pack their entire house and move to points unknown. All of this begins by falling in love with someone in the military. The Airman and Family Readiness Center

Chief stresses importance of intramural sports

The Tinker Air Force Base intramural and extramural sports program is an opportunity to challenge Airmen to meet the standards of "integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do." These core values are the cornerstone of the United States Air Force and are defining characteristics