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  • Dedicated crew chief bids farewell to retired tanker

    For more than 60 years, the KC-135 Stratotanker has graced the skies with her airlift and aerial refueling capabilities. However, similar to all things in life, each individual jet can reach its expiration date, and its career must come to an end.

  • Okies flyover Texas Tech game in honor of Veteran's Day

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla—A KC-135R assigned to the 465th Air Refueling Squadron here performed a flyover of the Texas Tech football game November 12th, 2022, in honor of veteran’s Day weekend, in Lubbock, Texas while the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown was in attendance.The

  • Okies flyover Oklahoma University

    A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 465th Air Refueling Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, conducts a flyover during an Oklahoma University football game in Norman, Oklahoma, November 5, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Mary Begy)

  • Okies refuel B-52 Stratofortresses

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.--B-52 Stratofortresses assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, refuel with a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, above the Rocky Mountains, Dec. 13, 2021. Aerial refueling allows aircraft

  • Defense Contract Management Agency conducts first flight with Okies

    An F-35 Lightning II from the Defense Contract Management Agency conducts its first flight and first tanking with a KC-135R Stratotanker from the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Feb. 24, 2021. Once fully tested this F-35 will join the fleet at Eielson Air Force Base,

  • Okies keep aircrews safe amid COVID-19

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.-- Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 507th Operations Group leadership ensured the Okies refueling mission continued while keeping aircrew and maintainers safe by implementing new operating standards in order to conduct daily missions refueling aircraft from Alaska to

  • Air Force Life Cycle Management Center interns take flight

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center logistics community and interns from the Premier College Intern Program and PALACE Acquire Logistics Trainee Program learn about the 507th Air Refueling Wing's mission during an orientation flight Feb. 25, 2020, at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

  • 507th spouses take to the skies

    Spouses of 507th Air Refueling Wing members take to the skies on a KC-135R Stratotanker for an orientation flight Jan. 28, 2020, at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mary Begy)

  • CAP cadets fly with Okies

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Cadets from the Civil Air Patrol Edmond Composite Squadron join the 507th Air Refueling Wing for a KC-135 orientation flight Dec. 17, 2019, at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

  • Home for the holidays

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  Members of the 507th Air Refueling Wing return home from a deployment to Southwest Asia Nov. 22 and Nov. 25, 2019, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mary Begy)

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