Airmen spend a day at the track

Every year service members from Fort Bragg and Pope Field, N.C. are invited to spend the day at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca Cola 600. This year was no exception with 43 service members and their guests received VIP treatment at the nationally televised NASCAR race, May 26.Each service

Furlough notices delivered

President surveys Oklahoma tornado damage

President Barack Obama landed here on his way to Moore, Okla. to survey the tornado devastation and meet with victims and first responders May 26. The president shook hands and spoke with some Tinker AFB employees, families, and first responders on the flight line here before traveling to Moore,

In memory of fallen warriors

Master Sgt. Chris Norris, a boom operator assigned to the 18th Air Refueling Squadron stands with Lt. Col. Michael Moeding and Lt. Col. Travis Clark, both pilots assigned to the 18 ARS, during a moment of silence at a memorial service for the crew of SHELL 77 at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., May

Memorial Day 2013

Early Sunday during a Memorial Day Ceremony at Forest Lawn Cemetery members of the 914th Airlift Wing, their family members, and volunteers placed American flags by the headstones of veterans interned in the Field of Valor and the American Legion section of the cemetery.The ceremony included remarks

Youngstown Airmen load school bus bound for Haiti

Members of the 76th Aerial Port Squadron and Travel Management Office here loaded a school bus onto a C-5 Galaxy aircraft from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, May 24.The school bus, donated by Ohio-based charity Hope for Haiti's Children, is being transported to Haiti via the Denton program which

June issue of Citizen Airman is available online

The June issue of Citizen Airman is now available on the web at http://www.citamn.afrc.af.mil/.  Contents include feature articles on a new program that uses technology to provide aircraft maintainers easier access to technical orders. Also featured in this issue is the first of a four-part series

Tinker reservist survives monster tornado

What started out as a sunny, routine day for one member of the 507th Force Support Squadron and the estimated 250 staff and patients at the Moore Medical Center took a sudden turn for the worse on May 20 as a mammoth 1.3 mile wide tornado bore down on them. Senior Master Sgt. Jennifer Nikki Johnson,

Airmen picking up pieces in tornado's aftermath

Members of Team Tinker are picking up the pieces after one of the largest and most costly tornadoes in history ripped through Moore, Okla., May 20. More than 20 Airman and their families in the 507th Air Refueling Wing suffered either minor damage or a total loss after the deadly storm passed.

Total Force ops in Libya change air refueling tactics

The world's top experts in air to air refueling recognized the Total Force contributions to NATO's Operation Unified Protector during an April meeting in Orlando, Fla.Flown from March 19, 2011 to Oct. 31, 2011, the no-fly zone over Libya was patrolled by aircraft from 16 countries and fueled by