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  • (TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OKLA) Staff Sgt. Stephen Quinn, 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron airborne radar technician, performs his system checks during the E-3 Sentry 30th anniversary flight on Mar. 23. The E-3 first arrived at Tinker on Mar. 23, 1977, and Airmen have been conducting the same aerial surviellance mission for the past 30 years. (Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy Fowler)

    E-3 Sentry celebrates 30 years in Air Force's Fleet

    The first E-3 Sentry touched down on Oklahoma soil. The arrival of aircraft tail number 75-0557 began a new era for the 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing, and for air surveillance. To celebrate this occasion, the wing conducted an arrival ceremony the next day and invited the base and local community leaders to help welcome the new aircraft.
  • An Airman from the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron marshals the first of several aircraft out of its parking spot and on its way to support Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM Mar. 28. (Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy Fowler)

    552nd makes history repeat itself with return to OEF, OIF

    Airmen in the 552nd Air Control Wing received orders to deploy for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom after a four-year hiatus. "This is a long awaited return of the E-3 to the AOR (area of responsibility)," said Brig. Gen. James M. Kowalski, 552nd ACW commander. "No weapons system has spent more time in the area, and we have to make

  • Air Force Secretary visits Ali Airmen

    The Secretary of the Air Force is now more than a picture on the wall to one Tinker Airman assigned here. The Honorable Michael Wynne toured the 407th Air Expeditionary Group here Mar. 28, and one of the many briefings he received came from Senior Airman Byron Kluewer, a 407th Expeditionary Communications Squadron base infrastructure
  • (TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla) An Airman from the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron conducts post-flight inspections on an E-3B/C Sentry aircraft as its cousin from across the Atlantic - the British E-3D Sentry - taxis to its parking space. Members of the No. 8 Squadron from Royal Air Force Waddington, United Kingdom, conducted a liaison visit to the 552nd Air Control Wing from April 10-17 to open the doors for future mission training and partnership.(Photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy Fowler)

    British Sentry visits American brethren at Tinker

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla -- "Coalition AWACS training." That's the term used by several members of the 963rd Airborne Air Control Squadron when their British brethren arrived for their first joint briefings on April 11. Members of the E-3D Sentry No. 8 Squadron, Royal Air Force Waddington, United Kingdom, conducted a liaison visit to the 552nd

  • 552nd ACW leadership to change hands today

    With a few words of goodbye to his troops and the passing of the unit guide-on, Brig. Gen. James M. Kowalski will relinquish command of the 552nd Air Control Wing to Col. Lori J. Robinson during a change of command ceremony set for 10 a.m. today in Bldg. 230 Dock 2. Lt. Gen. Robert "Bob" Elder, 8th Air Force commander, will officiate the ceremony
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