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  • Med Group wins overall base softball championship

    And just like that, the game was over and there was a new overall intramural softball champion. The 72nd Med Group, civilian intramural softball team champions, beat the Thumpers, the military intramural softball team champions.The med group won 21-7 in four innings on Aug. 30 at Championship

  • DISA depends on redundancy

    Redundancy - duplication of systems - is a hallmark of the Defense Information Systems Agency."The cyber world in which we operate has countless saboteurs and hackers and terrorists, and they pose a continuous threat to the United States," said Anthony L. Purvis, director of DISA's Defense

  • DISA-OKC manages many DOD computer systems

    Many of the computer systems employed throughout the world by the Department of Defense are administered from Tinker Air Force Base by the Defense Information Systems Agency.DISA is a Defense Department combat support agency that operates 14 computing facilities worldwide. Its 16,000 employees

  • Tinker varsity soccer in Texas tournament

    Tinker's varsity soccer team left the base Thursday en route to Texas for the 2012 Defender's Cup Alamo City Military Open soccer tournament at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.Twenty-two teams from Air Force installations across the nation will compete over the Labor Day weekend for the

  • 552nd CRCs: Home at last

    The 552nd Air Control Wing recently accomplished a feat that had not been achieved in nine years.As of July, all four of the contiguous United States-based control and reporting centers' units were back from the Middle East. While it's not a permanent condition as a new rotation begins in January,

  • Transient Alert handles visiting aircraft

    Tinker AFB supports scores of E-3 AWACS Sentries, E-6 Mercurys, B-1 and B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers. The base also hosts myriad other types and models of aircraft from other domestic military units and other countries."Anybody who flies into Tinker, we handle," said Dave Kellam, a Quality

  • Security Forces injects a dose of realism into training exercise

    The smell of cordite fills the hallway. It always lingers after gunfire. Bodies are down, writhing and calling for help. The fire-team pushes down the hallway. They're met by more gunfire. The team moves forward, breaking through apprehension. People are dying. They move crisply down the hallway,

  • Fixing and reporting near misses, hazards a base-wide responsibility

    Fixing hazards and near misses doesn't have to be a big production. Oftentimes, it can be done with a screwdriver, duct tape or a shovel and a couple of minutes.If there is a pile of broken glass in a parking lot and a car narrowly avoids driving through it, it is a near miss. By shoveling and

  • Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight: keeping Tinker workplaces safe

    The 72nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight is here for you. While the flight of 44 personnel is most famous this time of year for posting daily heat condition alerts through the network, the staff assures they do much more and, as a result, have collected a fan base

  • IP office has work cut out for them

    There are no stupid questions when it comes to information protection and classified documents. Just ask Ron Blackmore, a security specialist in the 72nd Air Base Wing Information Protection office. He insists it to be true. As one of five civilian employees in the office, he said it is their job to