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  • Archbishop conducts Mass at Tinker Chapel

    Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, speaks to a Tinker Chapel parishioner Sept. 24 as Lt. Col. Heather Fleishauer, commander of the 752nd Operations Support Squadron, listens in. The archbishop conducted mass at the chapel and attended the

  • 966th AACS instructor selected for Officer Training School

    Staff Sgt. Victoria Thompson, an instructor with the 966th Airborne Air Control Squadron, was recently selected to attend the Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Following three months of training, she will be commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the personnel career

  • Still in the fight

    The Chaplain Corps declared the 2017 theme for the 9/11 Memorial Ruck and Run to be “Still in the Fight,” a message stemming from Scripture found in the book of Micah. The verse reads: “Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to

  • E-3 flies over USS Theodore Roosevelt

    (Aug. 21, 2017) A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system assigned to Air Combat Command at Tinker Air Force Base flies over the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is underway conducting a composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX) with its

  • Wing providing support to Hurricane Harvey recovery operations

    The 552nd Air Control Wing's 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron is providing humanitarian support in the wake of devastating flooding in the Houston area. The squadron is flying one E-3 Sentry aircraft daily in an orbit over the western side of the city. The missions last 16-hours.Since the first

  • MONTHLY MISSION PARTNER: 729th ACS delivers round-the-clock support

    Since April 2017, Hill Air Force Base active-duty personnel assigned to the 729th Air Control Squadron, a geographically separated unit of the 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, have been delivering seamless battle management, command and control (BMC2) of coalition assets conducting

  • 436th Training Squadron celebrates centennial

    Time is a precious commodity; 436th products help the readiness of the Air Force by assisting and supporting training and freeing up valuable time. This creates space to spend recurring training issues. Video productions also supplement person-to-person training and enable Air Force Instructors to

  • Tinker lands E-3 test squadron

    A detachment of a test squadron that works closely with Tinker Air Force Base’s 552nd Air Control Wing has moved from far-off Seattle to Tinker AFB.The 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 1, unfurled its guidon Mondayat the 552nd ACW’s Fannin Hall. The 22-member detachment tests new

  • Welcome Home 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron

    Approximately 160 members of the 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron returned to Tinker on 19 Jul 17, after more than four months of deployment to Southwest Asia. Hundreds of family members, friends and squadron teammates were on hand to welcome them home.

  • Command and Control: The key to winning wars

    Four F-22 Raptors fly in and secure the airspace, behind them two F-16 Vipers ready their payload and prepare to drop bombs on an enemy target. A tanker flies a few miles away at 20,000 feet refueling an F-15 Strike Eagle, in preparations to rejoin the fight. Synchronizing all these movements,