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  • 966th gambles and wins

    The 966th AACS flag football team was in a gambling mood Monday afternoon. The Controllers rolled the dice on fourth down four times, and it paid big dividends when it mattered most. Their go-for-broke risk-taking enabled the 966th to tie and then defeat the 76th SMXG, 20-13.The 966th scored on its

  • Sergeants use job skills to save Tinker thousands of dollars

    Where there's a will, there's a way; just ask Tech. Sgts. Patrick Alexander and Mitchell Zebert. The two Airmen were recruited by 72nd Air Base Wing and 552nd Air Control Wing senior leadership to fix an inoperable marquee that outside contractors could not repair. Not only did they do it in 10

  • 552nd CRCs: Home at last

     The 552nd Air Control Wing recently accomplished a feat that had not been achieved in nine years.As of July, all four of the contiguous United States-based control and reporting centers' units were back from the Middle East. While it's not a permanent condition as a new rotation begins in January,

  • It’s a small world … Airmen reunite at Tinker

    Despite being geographically separated about 1,200 miles from home, two Airmen in charge of maintaining the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base have been made to feel right at home after landing in the same unit here after graduating from high school in

  • AWACS officer retires with more than 10,500 flying hours

    On July 27, 1981, 1st Lt. Jon Williams flew his first sortie on the E-3 Sentry aircraft as a weapons director. Now, 31 years later, Maj. Jon Williams, an evaluator mission crew commander in the 963rd Airborne Air Control Squadron, has logged 1267 total sorties, 222 of which were combat sorties. His

  • Father and son legacy leaving its mark on the 552nd Air Control Wing

    Add up all the years the Bunting family has served in the U.S. military and the number comes out to 57. When Senior Airman Samuel Bunting enlisted into active duty in the fall of 2007, he became the fourth-generation member of his family to serve in the military to include his great grandfather,

  • Deployed Airmen joined in T2 celebration

    Even though many of our hometown movie stars were deployed during the opening day of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," they celebrated the movie release by giving back to the local community and got a sneak preview in the process. The 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron, who participated in the

  • 552 ACW Airman wins Levitow

    The following is a speech written by Staff Sgt. Tyler Wallace, budget analyst, 552nd Air Control Wing, for a speech class he is taking to earn his degree through the Community College of the Air Force. JOHN L. LEVITOW AWARD: This award is presented to the top student in each Airman Leadership School

  • Counter-drug team goes aquatic

    With three months of counter-drug experience already behind them, AWACS crews were confident that they could handle the special task with which they were presented. July 30, they were armed with rubber gloves, trash bags and wet suits in an effort to clean up more than one-half mile of Curacao

  • Senior Airman makes a difference

    Capt. Kristen Thompson said Senior Airman Kevin Sanchez is an inspiration to his fellow troops. Even deployed to Iraq, he still motivates others. Airman Sanchez is an airborne radar technician with the 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron, deployed with the 964th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control