AFSC News

  • Open season set for 3 civilian benefits programs

    Open season for three civilian benefits programs will be Nov. 12 through Dec. 10, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. Those programs are the Federal Employees Health Benefits Pro-gram, the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Pro-gram and the Federal Flexible Spending Account

  • Commentary - Please remember all our veterans

    Our country's history is anchored by a necessity to preserve and protect the fundamental principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...whenever, and wherever it threatens our basic freedom. Since the founding of our Nation, this has required sacrifice in life, blood, and sweat of Men

  • Extensive energy improvements envisioned at Tinker

     Major renovations are envisioned at Tinker under the public/private Energy Savings Performance Contract that was celebrated Tuesday.According to Mark McWhirter, Tinker's new Base Energy Manager, Bldg. 5802, the Central Heating Plant, will be mothballed; Bldg. 208 and Bldg. 2212, a booster plant

  • Tinker to undergo energy retrofit

    The largest domestic energy retrofit project in the U.S. Air Force will be launched soon at Tinker Air Force Base through a public-private partnership.The project will remove 56 buildings from the base's steam grid and thereby reduce water consumption by almost 20 million gallons annually, will trim

  • Money spent at Robins FSS facilities pays back

    The Horizons Event Center has been up and running in its new role for several months now and its benefits are available to all members of Team Robins. Built in the 1940s as an officers' club, the former Horizons Club was re-opened last August as an event center. It will not only allow the base to

  • Symposium allows Robins workforce to share vision, requirements

    Senior leaders and managers at Robins are preparing to share plans for the base during the coming years at the annual Requirements Symposium, Wednesday and Thursday at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry. The symposium is a unique event where members of the Robins workforce share their current

  • Tinker achieves environmental milestone

     Tinker's Bldg. 9001 is the first facility in the U.S. Air Force to receive a Brownfields certificate on a former industrial site.The environmental milestone was celebrated Oct. 16 in a ceremony held inside the building, which previously housed a General Motors automobile manufacturing plant. The

  • Duo brings new ‘energy’ to Tinker team

    Tinker's Energy Team recently welcomed two fresh faces -- Mark McWhirter and Gary Krivokapich.Base energy manager, Mr. McWhirter comes to Tinker from the University of Oklahoma where he was a mechanical engineer. Mr. Krivokapich, utilities engineer/manager, arrived at Tinker from Holloman Air Force

  • AFSC goals lay foundation for success

    Since taking flight on July 10, the Air Force Sustainment Center hasn't been on auto-pilot.The center, which incorporates a total of eight wings, including three air logistics complexes, stood up in July and has been working toward the art of the possible and establishing goals for its current and

  • AFLCMC commander visits personnel at Tinker

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is tasked with one overriding mission: meet the warfighter's needs with effective, affordable, on-time solutions, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, commander of the AFLCMC, said during a "town hall" meeting recently at Tinker Air Force Base.The AFLCMC was established

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