Small Reserve unit restores air traffic in Puerto Rico

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. – As Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island St. Croix, a small Reserve unit from Oklahoma raced to Puerto Rico on Sept. 19, 2017, to evacuate air traffic controllers before the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years made landfall.

Video: Okies bring the boom

In honor of the Air Force's 70th birthday and the 507th Air Refueling Wing's 45th Anniversary, a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th ARW, operating out of Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., performed a flyover Sept. 16, 2017, at the University of Oklahoma vs. Tulane football game held in the Gaylord

Okie defenders return home

Deployed Reserve Civil engineers make critical runway repairs

Maintaining an airfield is never an easy task, especially when it’s one of the busiest in the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility. Responsible for making critical runway repairs, the 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron’s heavy equipment operator team ensures that the 386th

Avoiding job burnout

Even if you love your job, it’s common to feel burnt out from time to time. Job burnout is caused by long-term exposure to work-related stressors. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet workload demands.

Okies bring the boom

NORMAN, Okla. -- In honor of the Air Force’s 70th Anniversary, a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing operating out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, performed a flyover Sept. 16, 2017, at a University of Oklahoma football game at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in

AROWS change improves visibility of operational requirements

Beginning Oct. 1, a new data field will be added to the Air Reserve Orders Writing System that will be used primarily to track military personnel appropriation and other orders for operational requirements.This new field will be called Air Reserve Component Operational Requirements Tracker or

Tinker Reserve Airmen deploy to aid Florida recovery

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Eight Reserve Citizen Airmen of the 35th Combat Communications Squadron here departed Sep. 13 to support disaster relief efforts at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, where they will provide military commanders and government agencies communications systems in the

Seymour Johnson awarded KC-46A Pegasus

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is officially designated as the next destination for the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker, the Secretary of the Air Force announced Sept. 12.

Earth Wind and Fire: Reservists own the skies

For the first time in the nearly 70-year history of the Air Force Reserve, all three special mission units have been called to action simultaneously due to a series of catastrophic events that have effected wide swaths of the U.S.