AFMC Command News

  • Tinker organizations improve contractor safety by changing process

    Various units across Tinker Air Force Base are ensuring safety is a top priority for contractors, base employees and service members that work together on base. Implementing Art of the Possible combined with Continuous Process Improvement tools and techniques, members from the Air Force Sustainment

  • New OC-ALC commander ‘jazzed’ to be at Tinker

    Brig. Gen. Jeff King has long considered himself a customer of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex. As a career aircraft maintenance officer, he said he has seen the impact of OC-ALC from all around the Air Force. “They probably don’t see it or feel it here in Oklahoma, but they’re making a

  • AFSC’s top leaders visit Hill Air Force Base

    Lt. Gen. Gene Kirkland, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, and Chief Master Sgt. David Flosi, AFSC command chief master sergeant, visited Hill Air Force Base Sept. 21-23 to see Team Hill operations and to spend time with the base’s Airmen.

  • B-1B Integrated Battle Station modification completed

    An eight-year project to install the Integrated Battle Station on the B-1B Lancer fleet has been completed ahead of schedule. Sixty aircraft went through the modification process that began in late 2012 and was completed in September 2020.

  • Under Secretary Lord visits AFSC, OC-ALC

    Hon. Ellen Lord, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, visited Tinker Air Force Base August 18, 2020, to gain an overall understanding of the Air Force Sustainment Center’s mission as the supporting command for readiness in the Air Force.

  • AFSC Commander visits 72nd MDG

    Lt. Gen. Gene Kirkland, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, center, and Chief Master Sgt. David Flosi, AFSC command chief, visited the 72nd Medical Group's (MDG) clinic at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Aug. 5, 2020. The visit allowed Kirkland and Flosi to gain a better understanding of how

  • Tinker units collaborate, produce first 3-D printed engine component

    Members of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, an Air Force Sustainment Center wing, have produced the first additively manufactured metal component successfully tested on a U.S. Air Force aircraft engine, a significant milestone for future sustainment of aircraft like the E-3 Airborne Warning

  • Robins Frontlines: Larry Drawhorn

    Larry Drawhorn, 78th Civil Engineering Group maintenance mechanic, maintains infrastructure at Robins Air Force Base amid COVID-19.The 78th Civil Engineer Group is responsible with providing, operating, maintaining, restoring, and protecting the managed assets of the Robins infrastructure and

  • Robins Frontlines: Danny Marcum

    Danny Marcum, 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aircraft scheduler, is essential to the C-130’s mission at Robins Air Force Base. Marcum is responsible for several of the C-130 J Model’s schedule execution.During the COVID-19 pandemic, he really stepped up to the plate by ensuring the 560th AMXS

  • Robins Frontlines: Wade McElmurray

    Wade McElmurray, 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Aircraft Sheet Metal work leader, oversees all processes and procedures involved with the removal and replacement of the Center Wing Box on C-130s.McElmurray was faced with having to conform to new guidelines dealing with the COVID 19 pandemic.

  • Robins Frontlines: Jason Stansell

    Jason Stansell, Robins Air Force Base Commissary sales store checker, services customers at the commissary checkout amidst the fight against COVID-19.The commissary carries a wide variety of grocery items as well as fresh deli sandwiches, rotisserie chicken, sushi, baked goods and cakes available

  • Robins Frontlines: Charles “Mississippi” Davis

    Charles “Mississippi” Davis, 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Voluntary Protection Program representative, utilizes OSHA standards to ensure the health and safety of the 560th AMXS personnel and assist with the squadron’s Automated External Defibrillators. He helps to establish a framework of