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  • 552nd ACW helps tell Air Force story in new movie

    As the premier airborne command and control and battle management platform in the world, the 552nd Air Control Wing's E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System is frequently needed to support various missions around the world. One of the most recent missions was particularly exciting: helping Autobots

  • Operation Air Force educates academy cadets

    It was an image out of Hollywood. All eyes in the room were on the gunman silhouetted in the open doorway. The muzzle of his rifle panned the room while the strains of the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" played in the background. "Speed, force and violence are the key," the gunman said. "It's not

  • K-9 cop keeps military safe

    "We've got a bomb threat at the shoppette," the Airman says. "Who do you want to send?" Tech. Sgt. Michael Jones thinks for a second. "I'll go with Blacky," he says. It takes only a few minutes for Sergeant Jones, the kennelmaster for the 72nd Security Forces Squadron to locate his partner, an

  • ADAPT program can help problem drinkers

    Sometimes they don't want to talk. That's when Mildred Fitch, a substance abuse counselor with the 72nd MDOS, puts down her pen and shares her own stories. "Sometimes that opening up makes a change," she says. "I feel really privileged when they feel comfortable enough to share with me." As a

  • Tinker man patents six-way chess game

    For several years, Mike Owen pondered the same question, something very few have probably considered. Could chess be a three or six-player game? He thinks the answer is yes. He designed a workable gameboard that resembles a Chinese Checkers gameboard, visited with lawyers and applied for a patent.

  • Team of former GM workers hang on at Tinker, may move back

    A combined 235 years devoted to the auto industry brought several former General Motors employees to the Tinker work force. Since the time Tinker leased the plant, several of the former GM employees have found out they will be re-distributed back to the plant as Tinker employees. When the Oklahoma

  • Airfield manager retires after 45 years of service

    For most, 45 years of military service and 23 years of the same position may seem like a lifetime of repetitive work, but for Tinker's airfield manager, it's been a lifetime of enjoyment. Don Lott joined the Air Force at the age of 18 and stayed active duty for 22 years. After he retired from active

  • American Heroes: Local veterans exemplified duty in their generations

    Homer Thompson went to enlist in the Army Air Corps during World War II at the age of 19, but found himself in the infantry instead. Mr. Thompson joined before D-Day in 1944. The war effort needed more foot soldiers at the time. "All of my friends were going in and I felt the need to protect my

  • American Heroes: Local vets exemplified duty in their generations

    Larry Smith knew he would one day be a Marine, he just didn't know how quickly that would happen. Mr. Smith came from a long line of Marines in his family, as far back as the First World War, all of them playing a part in the wars following. He was the first of three brothers to go into the Vietnam

  • Sailors help bridge gap for Soldiers in Baghdad

    A TACAMO crew from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing flew over Iraq and acted as a communication liaison between ground personnel Monday.    In the Middle East, the "Take Charge And Move Out" flies over Iraq to serve as the last means of communication between ground forces.    "On a larger scale, our