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  • Col. Doug Gullion, 507th Air Refueling Wing commander, speaks to the enlisted leaders upon their graduation from NCO Leadership Development Course Aug. 12, 2016, at the Hill Conference Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Twenty-five students attended the week-long course, designed to teach them leadership skills for tough subjects in the workplace.

    Taking the lead

    Twenty-five students from Tinker and other reserve units in the Air Force Reserve Command graduated from a one-week leadership course here Aug. 12.
  • A KC-135R Stratotanker flown by the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, makes a low-approach near the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), during an underway replenishment in the Pacific Ocean, July 26, 2016. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

    Rim of the Pacific 2016 concludes

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM – The world’s largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 4, after more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. More than 100 Citizen Airmen with the 507th Air Refueling Wing participated in the exercise, offloading more than 2 million lbs. of
  • 160720-F-EW270-248 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 20, 2016) Six U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets await refueling from a KC-135R Stratotanker belonging to the 507th Air Refueling Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., during Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

    Okies support Navy during RIMPAC

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM -- U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets receive fuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., while three more jets await refueling as part of Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are
  • JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 11, 2016) Lt. Col. Ken Humphrey, a pilot with the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., turns a KC-135 while on approach to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, in support of Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise. Humphrey and his crew fly and operate KC-135s out of the 507th Air Refueling Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. The 507th ARW is the largest Reserve flying unit in the state of Oklahoma. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Grady Epperly)

    Okies refuel a RAF CF-18 during RIMPAC 2016

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (July 11, 2016) Lt. Col. Ken Humphrey, a pilot with the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., turns a KC-135 while on approach to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, in support of Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise. Humphrey and his crew fly and operate KC-135s out of the 507th Air Refueling Wing at
  • Staff Sgt. James Andrus and Senior Airman Travis Krause, U.S. Air Force crew chiefs with the 507th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., connect a drogue adapter to a KC-135R Stratotanker in order to connect a drogue. A drogue is used in air-to-air refueling. The probe and drogue method of refueling uses a trailing hose with a basket on the end. Pilots guide a probe on their aircraft into the basket to connect with the hose. Air Force helicopters, and all Navy and Marine Corps aircraft refuel using the hose-and-drogue for air-to-air refueling. Andrus, Krause and other Citizen Airmen are participating in Rim of the Pacific exercise 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Grady Epperly/Released)

    Boom Drogue system installation for RIMPAC 16

    Staff Sgt. James Andrus and Senior Airman Travis Krause, U.S. Air Force crew chiefs with the 507th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., connect a drogue adapter to a KC-135R Stratotanker in order to connect a drogue. A drogue is used in air-to-air refueling. The probe and drogue method of refueling uses a trailing hose
  • Staff Sgt. Shantel Ellis, 507th Air Refueling Wing command post controller coordinates with maintenance during the June Operational Exercise at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. June 2, 2016. Command post controllers along with maintenance professionals in the maintenance operations center were tested by running numerous checklists, relaying command information, tracking aircraft, answering radio and phone calls while dispatching crews. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

    Exercise brings readiness into focus

    Over 1,100 Citizen Airmen of the 507th Air Refueling Wing here came together for an intense five-day exercise here June 1-5 in order to evaluate the wing’s operational readiness, with emphasis on the wing’s nuclear support and deterrence mission.
  • KC-135R Stratotanker's operated and maintained by Citizen Airmen from the 507th Air Refueling Wing arrived in Hawaii July 7, 2016 to support the Rim of the Pacific Exercise also known as RIMPAC. The Oklahoma Reservists join forces with over twenty-six nations, 49 ships, six submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel who are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971.(U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech Sgt. Aaron Oelrich)

    Oklahoma Citizen Airmen arrive for RIMPAC

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM  - Citizen Airmen from the 507th Air Refueling Wing, Tinker Air Force Base arrived in Hawaii July 7, 2016 to support the Rim of the Pacific Exercise also known as RIMPAC. The Oklahoma Reservists join forces with other forces from twenty-six nations, 49 ships, six submarines, about 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel
  • Master Sgt. Robert Mills of the 507th Maintenance Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., holds his oldest son moments after returning from a four-month deployment from Southwest Asia June 11, 2016. Moments later, he met his two-month old son for the first time. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

    Daddy's home

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Families, friends and Air Force Reserve leaders lined up June 11 to greet thirteen Citizen Airmen of the 507th Maintenance Group here upon returning home from a four-month deployment to Southwest Asia. Master Sgt. Robert Mills of the 507th Maintenance Squadron here had a special guest waiting to meet him: his
  • Capt. Dan Shaheen, 465th Air Refueling Squadron pilot, briefs KC-135 Block 45 capabilities to Lt. Gen. James “JJ” Jackson, Chief of Air Force Reserve and Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, May 14, 2016, at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Jackson visited Citizen Airmen in the 507th Air Refueling Wing and 513th Air Control Group during their May Unit Training Assembly. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Maj. Jon Quinlan)

    Q & A with AFRC Commander

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - Lt. Gen. James “JJ” Jackson, Chief of Air Force Reserve and Commander, Air Force Reserve Command visited Tinker Air Force Base Reserve units and members in the Reserve Officer Association here May 14.  The 507th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs office was able to interview the general during his visit.PA:  Sir, first

  • Video - Resident "Okie" takes command

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - Col. Douglas E. Gullion took command of the 507th Air Refueling Wing here April 2, 2016, at a ceremony presided over by Maj. Gen. John C. Flournoy Jr., 4th Air Force commander.
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