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  • Airmen, Sailors graduate from Tinker Airman Leadership School

    Thirty-seven Airmen and two Sailors graduated from Tinker’s Airman Leadership School last month.Graduates are:137th Aeromed Evac SquadronSenior Airman Kyle Henry146th Air Support Operations SquadronSenior Airman Matthew Supan189th Logistics Readiness SquadronSenior Airman Richard Grant235th Air

  • Leadership expert addresses 552nd Airmen

    A Pentagon expert on character building and leadership recently spoke to hundreds of 552nd Air Control Wing members about “Professionalism Enhancing Human Capital.”Lt. Col. Kevin Basik, the Air Force representative to the Secretary of Defense’s senior adviser for military professionalism,

  • Reserve AWACS returns to the Hawaiian Islands

    Reservists from the 513th Air Control Group finished their last day of Sentry Aloha 17-01 on Feb. 3 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, marking a full two weeks of successful missions in one of the best training events in the unit's history.

  • 552nd ACW announces fourth-quarter award winners

    The 552nd Air Control Wing held its fourth-quarter awards ceremony in Fannin Hall, Jan. 25.The 552nd ACW Airman of the fourth-quarter is Senior Airman Jordin. Assigned to the 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron, Airman Jordin is the squadron’s systems technician subject matter expert. He oversees

  • TCU ROTC Tour

    1st Lt. Robert, 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron, discusses tactics and aircraft battle management with Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from Texas Christian University. The cadets spent two days being immersed in the operations of the Air Force Sustainment Center, the Oklahoma

  • STEM like a girl

    As part of the installation’s diamond anniversary goals to better extend STEM education opportunities, Tinker hosted 40 girls in its first STEM Girls Camp, “STEM Like a Girl.” On Jan. 28 the camp, which targeted young girls in grades six, seven and eight, included teambuilding and STEM activities,

  • 552nd ACNS NCO’s quick response embodies Wingman concept

    While out shopping before the holidays, Tech. Sgt. Kevin, a unit deployment manager with the 552nd Air Control Wing’s Air Control Networks Squadron, came upon an accident scene at Eastern and S.E. 12th Street in Moore, Okla.The sergeant noticed two people helping someone out of a stalled vehicle in

  • New year, new Sentry – DRAGON

    The first E-3 Sentry aircraft with the glass flight deck modification known as DRAGON (Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation) arrived at Tinker Jan. 9.

  • Wounded Warrior Program reaches beyond combat

    A retired master sergeant credited the Air Force’s Wounded Warrior Program with turning around 10 years of anger and bitterness following wrong diagnoses and missed treatment opportunities after she survived a roadside bomb attack in Iraq. Nineteen-year Air Force veteran Lisa Hodgden spoke to first