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  • 507th Air Refueling Wing acquires Tinker's Fitness Center West

    Over the years, the Air Force has placed a premium on physical fitness, and bases worldwide have gone to great lengths to ensure that Airmen have access to the facilities and equipment needed to get and stay fit and healthy.And Tinker Air Force Base is no different.There are five different fitness

  • Commentary: adapt to fitness to survive, thrive

    Do you ever feel like a dinosaur? Do you feel like you have been around for a while and have witnessed a dramatic shift in the environment? Do you ever wonder what has happened to this Air Force or Air Force Reserve that we all joined a few years ago? I sure do.Is it the mission? The answer is no.

  • Chaplain's Corner: 'You turned my wailing into dancing'

    Have you ever been so down that you just can't seem to get going? Do you feel you have no energy, no motivation and no desire to do anything?Maybe you are so worried and anxious about something (career, marriage, relationships, money, deployment ... take your pick) that you just can't concentrate on

  • Top five ways to prepare for an Operational Readiness Inspection

    Someone recently asked what "top five" things we can do to prepare for an operational readiness inspection. That's a very good question, because there are some things we should all keep in mind about preparing this critical inspection.  ORIs are held every 60 months and are an opportunity to

  • Wing members help repair home for local resident

    To hear her tell her story, one could say Ms. Treva Clark and her family personify the word resilience. However, it is difficult to say the same about her home.But members of the 507th Air Refueling Wing teamed up with the local chapter of a national charity to help her and her family be more

  • Aerial port squadron team makes strong showing at Reserve 'rodeo'

    "These guys are the cream of the crop," said Senior Master Sgt. Michael D. Knight.The "guys" in question were Reserve Airmen from the 72nd Aerial Port Squadron here on Tinker Air Force Base.After a two-day-long "Port Dawg" Challenge held at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., Knight had plenty of reasons

  • Wing reserve enlisted council plans fitness-themed contest

    If you've seen the television program "The Biggest Loser," you know the efforts contestants take to lose weight and begin a healthy lifestyle.   The Tinker Reserve Enlisted Advisory Council is sponsoring, to use a television term, a "spin-off" of that.   The "TREAC Weight Loss Challenge" is a

  • Wing names quarterly award winners

    Three enlisted and one officer were named the 507th Air Refueling Wing quarterly award winners for the third quarter 2010 at the wing commander's call October 3, 2010.The winners are:Airman of the Quarter: Senior Airman Sara Mesenbrink, 507th Communications FlightNoncommissioned Officer of the

  • News in Brief -- November 2010

    Operation Holiday Spirit fundraiser set for December 3    The 2010 Operation Holiday Spirit steak dinner fundraiser is scheduled for Dec. 3. at 6 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Del City, Okla.   The meal will cost $25 per person. For tickets or more information, contact Capt. Robert

  • Wing ORI looms on horizon

    With this summer's unit compliance inspection over, wing officials have already begun preparing for the wing's 2012 operational readiness inspection.During the October weekend drill, maintenance and operations personnel conducted ability to survive and operate (ATSO) training."The rest of the wing