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  • Blue Angel brings it home

    U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Andre Webb, a Lawton native, will be returning to the Sooner State to fly in Tinker Air Force Base’s bi-annual Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show this weekend. “Knowing that I know of a lot of people in the crowd will be pretty exciting,” he said. “It will be a similar feeling

  • Airmen and Sailors graduate from Tinker Airman Leadership School

     Airman Leadership SchoolThirty-seven Airmen and two Sailors recently graduated from Tinker’s Airman Leadership School.Graduates are: 138th Force Support Squadron Senior Airman Gavin PaytonSenior Airman Drake Moffitt 507th Logistics Readiness SquadronSenior Airman Berenice Pitre 552nd Air Control

  • Oklahoma City to Host America’s Navy

    Oklahoma’s “Big Friendly” readies for underway of Oklahoma City Navy Week, May 27 through June 2, in conjunction with the Star Spangled Salute Air Show. Historically, Navy Week events draw thousands of attendees to participate and create a dialogue between Sailors and local residents. The events are

  • Detachment’s winning streak

      It had been three years since Tinker’s United States Air Force team beat the base’s Canadian Detachment in the annual CAN/US Cup hockey game. That all changed on May 3.Led by forward Kamil Bigos, the U.S. team ended the Canadian’s winning streak, with a 4-2 victory. The Canadian Detachment started

  • OKC leaders’ vision of airfield thrives

    Tinker Air Force Base has played a huge role in the defense of the nation since the 1940s.It all started in October 1940 with 960 acres of land and a group of Oklahoma City visionaries who wanted to move their city out of the Dust Bowl days and give people a hope for the future.Nine months after the

  • AFMC Command Chief to focus on communication, people

    People make an assignment great, not the location, said the Air Force Materiel Command’s newest senior enlisted leader, Chief Master Sgt. Stanley C. Cadell, who is eager to get to know all of the military and civilian Airmen across the command as he settles into his role here.

  • Tinker prescribed burn coming up

    For the first time since 2010, prescribed burning of 25 areas, totaling 100 acres, on Tinker Air Force Base is planned between late January and April. It is a collaborative effort between the Tinker AFB Natural Resources Conservation Office, Fire Department and the Air Force Wildland Fire

  • Selling Tinker’s harvested timber pays off

    Tinker Air Force Base Natural Resources Program Manager John Krupovage and Natural Resources Technician Donna Nolan with the 72nd Civil Engineering Directorate believe “waste not, want not” when it comes to harvesting timber from the trees that have been removed or fallen on base.Instead of sending

  • Tinker natural resources supports monarch population

     When Carrie Oehlerich, the lead office assistant for Aramark, a food service at Tinker Air Force Base, found a caterpillar in her garden four years ago, she took to the internet, just to make sure it was not one to be concerned about.She soon found that it was harmless — just a monarch butterfly

  • Real ID Act additional extension requested to Oct. 2019

    The state of Oklahoma has been on a limited extension for the REAL ID Act from the Department of Homeland Security through Oct. 10. Gov. Mary Fallin requested another extension for Oklahoma until Oct. 10, 2019.If the newest extension is granted, the federal government will continue to recognize