AFMC Command News

  • Robins Frontlines: Ashley Solomkin

    Ashley Solomkin, Pine Oaks Lodging, Guest Services representative, provides customer service at the facility amidst the fight against COVID-19. Pine Oaks remains committed to providing guests a good night’s rest and pleasant stay at Robins.For all you do at Team Robins … Thank You! 

  • Squadron redesignations bolster enterprise contracting support

    Six Air Force Installation Contracting Center specialized contracting squadrons were redesignated April 20, under the enterprise sourcing squadron structure “for more efficient and effective operations.” In joining other enterprise sourcing squadrons, the new ESSs are positioned as “Centers of

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Felix Jones

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Felix JonesChaplain (Capt.) Felix Jones, originally from Bossier City, Louisiana, has served in the Air Force for eight years. Part of the Tinker Chapel’s COVID response is offering secure counselling virtually and manning the Latte Lounge daily. Jones says working with

  • AFLCMC led team conducts airflow test on C-17

    JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. – Members of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s C-17 Program Office located here, collaborated with a team from the 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES), as well as the 437th Airlift Wing, to conduct several interior airflow tests on a C-17 aircraft at Joint

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Brittany Littleton

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Brittany LittletonBrittany Littleton is a child and youth program assistant currently working with pre-toddlers at Child Development Center West. She's worked at Tinker for three and a half years and is from Midwest City, Oklahoma. In her time away from work, Littleton loves

  • Tinker recalls the OKC bombing 25 years later

    At 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995, domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 and wounding more than 600. Included among those killed in the attack were two of Tinker’s own, Airman 1st

  • Army team arrives to support local COVID-19 efforts

    U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to Urban Augmentation Medical Task Forces arrive at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., April 17. The task force arrived at Hanscom AFB to assist with medical care in support of the COVID-19 response in the local region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Maki)

  • April brings sexual assault awareness to forefront

    Nearly one in five women and one in 71 men in the U.S. have been raped at some point in their life, According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center,Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in April has the goal of raising awareness about sexual assault and violence, educating the

  • AFSC Frontlines: Joseph Hobbs

    Joseph Hobbs, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Group sheet metal mechanic, inspects an F-15 wing for proper sealing prior to reassembly. Hobbs remains on duty amidst the fight against COVID-19.

  • AFTC Small Business Office provides doorway for innovation, test possibilities

    While a lot of attention is garnered by large Defense contractors’ newest and greatest weapons systems, the Air Force Test Center’s Small Business Office provides a way for small businesses to showcase their innovative ideas amongst the giants of the industry. Additionally, with the current COVID-19

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Robin Lewallen

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Robin LewallenMs. Lewallen works as a driver/operator for the Tinker Fire Department and has served at Tinker for 13 years. Lewallen, who is from Hollis, Oklahoma, loves spending time with her family and her dogs. Her main duties are to do a daily checkout of equipment and to