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  • ATSO Rodeo rounds up 552nd ACW, 72nd ABW

    Real-world taskings this year have taken the place of Operational Readiness Exercise "fun and games" as the 552nd Air Control Wing deployed its Airmen to support Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Two exercises have been cancelled since the deployments began, so this time the 552nd ACW Inspector

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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