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  • 507th ARW HRDC hosts financial workshop

    Throughout DoD bases will host a variety of financial workshops and seminars this month to help promote financial readiness. The 507th Air Refueling Wing's Human Resource Development Council will also conduct a workshop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday in the 507th Maintenance Group training room,

  • Former Wing Vice Commander nominated for star

    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced Feb 27 that the President has nominated Air Force Reserve Col. Stayce D. Harris to the grade of brigadier general .Col. Harris was the 507th ARW Vice Commander from 2002 to 2005. In 2003, she deployed for four months to Moron AB, Spain, where she served

  • Oklahoma children, reservists send Valentines to veterans

    The more than 300 veterans living at the Norman Veterans Center in Norman, Oklahoma, received a pleasant surprise this week as 5 posters and more than 700 Valentines were delivered to them from the 507th Air Refueling Wing, Air Force Reserve. The reservists, in conjunction with students from Wiley

  • Self Inspection Back to the Future

    A wing-wide initiative kicked off this month to incorporate a new computer-based inspection program. That program called the Management Internal Control Toolkit (MICT) was designed and created by an Air Force Reserve Command team after a one-week AFSO21 Rapid Improvement Event. MICT is billed as an

  • AFSO 21 project yields award payload

    An AFSO 21 project prompted by Col. Jeffery Glass, 507th Air Refueling Wing commander, has resulted in a payload of Air Force awards for wing members. "I have known for a long time how some Airman may go 15 to 20 years without receiving an Air Force award," Colonel Glass said. "It's appalling how

  • Season's Greetings

    The 507th Air Refueling Wing "Okie" patch is perched among the ornaments adorning this Christmas tree as wing Airmen pass on their Christmas greetings to all.

  • Jenkins speeds through Air Force half-marathon

    A year ago she would never have dreamed of this, crossing the finish line at the 2008 Air Force Half-Marathon, smiling brightly, a finishers medal draped around her neck, a reward for completing the grueling 13.1-mile course. In fact, a year ago, she was more likely to find a way to avoid running

  • Taking Aim

    Major Robert Baird, 507th Security Forces Squadron commander is shown practicing at a weapons range while deployed at Afghanistan. Above he is firing an Australian Steyr AUG automatic rifle. Regarding the rifle Major Baird said, "There's no selector switch so you have to push the trigger to the rear

  • If you build it they will come

    Since Dec. 28, 2007 more than 3,800 people have walked through the doors of the Latte Lounge located in the Vanwey Recreation Center within the Vanwey Dining Facility on Tinker AFB. The Latte Lounge concept was created to give Airmen a place to come together and have fun. "Patrons enjoy a relaxed,

  • One of the Air Force's best kept secret

    Tucked away in small building on Maxwell AFB lies one of the Air Force's best kept secrets, a secret that is shaping the future of the Air Force by way of the past. The Air University Press (AU Press) is a small building that houses numerous books and papers written by the very men and women in