AFMC Command News

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Angie Gronlund

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Angie GronlundAngie Gronlund serves as a cashier at the Vanwey Dining Facility.Originally from the Philippines, she now calls Del City, Oklahoma, her home.During COVID, she helps keep the register area and other areas around the dining facility clean and sanitized. She says

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Lisa McMorris

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Lisa McMorrisLisa McMorris is the general manager for the three barber shops on base, including the Tinker Base Exchange, Bldg. 230's flightline shop and inside the Navy Shopette.McMorris, from Fort Dix, New Jersey, has served for 12 years here at Tinker, six of those in the

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Airman 1st Class I’Munique Green

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Airman 1st Class I’Munique GreenAirman 1st Class I'Munique Green serves as a vehicle search area member with the 72nd Security Forces Squadron.She has been in the Air Force since September 2018 and is from St. Petersburg, Florida.In her off-duty time, Green enjoys playing

  • Tinker continues return to full capacity

    On Monday, May 11, Tinker Air Force Base began a gradual and measured return to full capacity by reopening more of its facilities and services consistent with state and local guidelines.

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Jacquline “Jae” Grinston

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Jacquline “Jae” GrinstonJacquline “Jae” Grinston is a training specialist in the 72nd Force Support Squadron.Grinston has 22 years of combined service, military and civilian. A highlight of her military career happened in 2000 when she was stationed at Dyess Air Force Base,

  • AEDC hypersonic test team presses on during pandemic

    Seven Hroncich, left, an instrument technician, Robert Bradford, center right, an electrician, Kevin Thompson, right, test operations engineer, Tim Mullins, an outside machinist, and others prepare for a test run in the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Arcs Test Facility Control Room,

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Diann Riter

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Diann RiterDiann Riter is the Installation Emergency Manager at the Emergency Operations Center and has served in this position for over seven years.Riter, originally from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, has spent 16 years in civil service and is an Air Force retiree.In her free

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Edith Lowe

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Edith LoweEdith Lowe, a work leader in the meat department at the Tinker Commissary, has worked here for almost 20 years.Her duties include paperwork, cutting meat, filling cases and helping customers.She likes helping all of her customers, especially now during this time of

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Sonny Barber

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Sonny BarberSonny Barber is a contract QA for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has worked for them around six years.He enjoys spending time with his family, is passionate about travelling and loves riding motorcycles.As QA, he assures the contractor is meeting the

  • Return to full capacity; a message from the AFSC commander

    Teammates,Across the Air Force Sustainment Center, we are taking actions to “Return to Full Capacity.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have collectively adapted to considerable changes to how we operate our installations and work centers. Where the job can effectively be performed through

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Tech. Sgt. Crystal Carr

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Tech. Sgt. Crystal CarrTech. Sgt. Crystal Carr is the lead for military pay in the 72nd Comptroller Squadron.Originally from Florence, South Carolina, Carr has served in the U.S. Air Force for 12 years. Tinker is her fifth assignment, which includes one deployed to Al Udeid,

  • AFFSA navigates mission-critical support during COVID-19

    Across Tinker Air Force Base, Airmen have been adapting their regular routines to ensure mission-critical operations continue with minimum disruption in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For the Air Force Flight Standards Agency’s Remote Maintenance Center, an organization that already

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Ryan Floyd

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Ryan FloydRyan Floyd, an F108 jet engine mechanic in the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, has been part of the Air Force family for two-and-a-half years.The Blanchard, Oklahoma, native enjoys hunting and fishing.Floyd is a newer mechanic who is fully certified in the F108

  • Gate’s Airmen still trucking through COVID-19

    The Truck Gate at Tinker Air Force Base is taking additional precautions when screening vehicles in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.Officer Jason Allen, the non-commissioned officer in charge of Vehicle Search, said the process for allowing these large vehicles, which are often transporting