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  • New Force Support Squadron will streamline Tinker base functions

    When it comes to people programs, community support and quality of life, there will soon be one organization on base that will handle it all - the 72nd Force Support Squadron.    The new organization is the result of an ongoing Air Force-wide merger of mission support and services squadrons and is

  • Tinker civilian receives 40-year service pin

    Nearly 40 years ago, Lyndon B. Johnson was president. "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" by B.J. Thomas was rated number one on the Billboard Hot 100 List, and Kenneth Snake began his tenure at Tinker.   To commemorate his near 40-year career, Maj. Gen. Loren Reno, Oklahoma City Air Logistics

  • DDOO receives National Award

    The Defense Distribution Center Oklahoma has received recognition, from the National Industries for the Blind, for their support of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day program, which helps to employ blind and handicapped persons in both the retail and manufacturing sector.    In the fall of 2007, DDOO made a

  • Information Technology leader retires

    Colonel Bruce Harmon retired from the United States Air Force and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center's Information Technology Directorate on June 12. The officiating officer and speaker at Col. Harmon's ceremony was Col. Gregory Touhill, commander of the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force

  • Go hard, fall, get up and hit it again

    Go hard, fall, get up, and hit it again. How we fall matters-- how we get back up matters a heck of a lot more.    I coach ice hockey. In practice, I tell players to skate beyond their comfort zone. Falling is not just ok but occasionally expected. The important thing is to get right back up and go

  • Colonel Tynan recognized for CFC efforts

    Col. Tracy Tynan made Tinker proud. As Tinker's Combined Federal Campaign coordinator, Colonel Tynan recently received national recognition for his endeavors to raise awareness and funds for the CFC campaign.    Colonel Tynan received the 2007 CFC Hero Award May 30 at the White House's Eisenhower

  • Area high school students job shadow at Tinker

    Tinker's June 13 job-shadowing event proved successful.    Nearly 40 students and teachers from the Langston University Mathematics and Science Academy summer camp toured areas of Bldg. 3001, seeing the 76th Maintenance Wing quality verification, chemical and metallurgical laboratories and learning

  • Practice makes perfect: Tinker employees work on better self-aid buddy care

    The American Heart Association reports that more than 165,000 adults die from sudden cardiac arrest each year.     According to Capt. Charles G. Kels, Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, the Oklahoma's Good Samaritan Act protects individuals who, in good faith, render or attempt to render emergency care