Defender Challenge

After a half-mile uphill litter carry race in the Self-Aid/Buddy Care challenge, the 507th Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Squadron team wills themselves to the finish line during the Nov. 10 Defender Challenge competition. Six teams from Tinker’s 72nd Security Forces, Altus’ 97th SFS and Tinker’s 507th ARW/SFS were pushed to the limits in various combat skills during the first event of its kind here since the 1980s. . (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

Defender Challenge

Senior Airman Jocelyn Lord, 97th Security Forces Squadron, Altus AFB, reloads under pressure during a Combat Pistol competition at the Tinker Combat Arms firing range Nov. 10. Altus hit the mark for the pistol competition, earning the five-person team the win in that event. Watching each competitor is 72nd SFS Combat Arms Staff Sgt. Matthew Leake. (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

Defender Challenge

After a half-mile uphill litter carry race in the Self-Aid/Buddy Care challenge, the 507th Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Squadron team wills themselves to the finish line during the Nov. 10 Defender Challenge competition. Six teams from Tinker’s 72nd Security Forces, Altus’ 97th SFS and Tinker’s 507th ARW/SFS were pushed to the limits in various combat skills during the first event of its kind here since the 1980s. . (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

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Defender Challenge

Senior Airman Jocelyn Lord, 97th Security Forces Squadron, Altus AFB, reloads under pressure during a Combat Pistol competition at the Tinker Combat Arms firing range Nov. 10. Altus hit the mark for the pistol competition, earning the five-person team the win in that event. Watching each competitor is 72nd SFS Combat Arms Staff Sgt. Matthew Leake. (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

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Defender Challenge

Bearing the weight of 35-pound rucksacks on a 7.5-mile rucksack march, Senior Airmen Robert Mayhew and Jose Armenta, from the 72nd Security Forces Squadron, compete against the clock and five other teams during the Nov. 10 Defender Challenge held here (Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Timothy Nesbitt)

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Tinker hosts Defender Challenge

Published Nov. 16, 2012