Tinker Air Force Base

You know, when I was in sixth grade, uh, I'd watched something where there'd been nuclear war and everybody was suffering from nuclear fallout and they were getting sick and they were dying.

And I asked my teacher, I said, you know, "Is this, is this what's really gonna happen?" And he said, "Don't worry about it because we're not too far from Tinker Air Force Base, so we will be a direct strike.

We will get annihilated immediately.

You'll never even know it's coming.

Now, they are responsible more of the fighter side of the house, so thinking F-22, F-16, used to be the A-10, F-35, et cetera.

Their sister squadron at Tinker Air Force Base would be responsible for handling KC-135 type repairs that we have seen and that what General Tully is talking about.

So in this example, we have a KC-135 that was damaged by an enemy attack.

We have to get it flyable again.

Over the next 90 minutes, chaos erupts in the downtown area.

Triage units were established, false alarms of second and third bombs were reported, a blood drive began at Tinker Air Force Base, and the investigation moved simultaneously as the rubble was searched for bodies.

Now, in a twist of fate, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Charlie Hanger was already pointed toward Oklahoma City that morning when the dispatch radio changed his whole life.

And back then, he didn't even know it would.

I can't understate how important that 30% efficiency is, uh, for the engines, because that either means that translates into greater range, greater endurance, or a decreased dependence or a lesser demand on our tanker fleet, which we already know is too small.

small.Call out to Tinker Air Force Base.

Anybody wanna go see B-52s get stripped down to the bones and built up again, it is outstanding to go out there.

Matter of fact, we should go out to our depots and take a look at what we're doing out there.

In her 50s, she returned to college to further her education, earning her master's and doctorate degrees through Regis University and Capella University.

Throughout her career, Susan worked for Rockwell Collins, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, General Dynamics, and most recently, Boeing Avionics at Tinker Air Force Base.

She retired in 2024 and returned to Cedar Rapids in December 2025.

Susan was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Of course he would.

A year later, in the early hours of the 29th of September 1957, Buddy, Holly and the Crickets recorded Maybe Baby in the Officers Club at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma after playing a gig and a night out on a state fair.

For years, the base couldn't find any record that it happened until drummer Jerry Allison confirmed it.

So one of the greatest singles was recorded somewhere that officially has no memory of it.

My dad was a welder at home doing body work on cars.

And then his second job, he was a welder at Tinker Air Force Base.

So this guy worked from 7.30 in the morning till 2.30 in the morning in my own garage fixing cars.

He would eat lunch in his kitchen standing up on the counter in 15 minutes, take a shower, then go to Tinker Air Force Base.

as a welder, got off at 1130, came home, would drink a Budweiser and then go to bed.

He did that my entire life.

My dad worked in kind of like civilian military jobs for most of his life.

And he got a job at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City.

And instead of moving close to the base, he kind of like fostered these green acres type like farm life fantasies.

and moved us to this extremely rural part of the state.