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Camp Gruber is an Oklahoma Army National Guard (OKARNG) training facility. It covers a total of 87 square miles (230 km 2).. The base is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, a noted artillery officer and the original composer of the U.S. Field Artillery March, the source for the Army's official song, "The Army Goes Rolling Along".
Tinker Air Force Base is named in honor of Major General Clarence L. Tinker. [2] An Osage from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, he received his wings in 1921. [3] He was a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy who went on to become the first major general of Native American descent in U.S. Army history.
The 3rd Mobile Communications Group took the void of the 3rd Airways and Air Communications Service Mobile Squadron that was established at Tinker AFB, OK on 1 December 1952. Upon establishment of AFCS, the 3rd AACS was redesignated 3rd Mobile Communications Squadron (AFCS G-2, 1 July 61), but unfortunately would not be incorporated into the ...
On 14 April 1994, at 07:36 local time, a USAF E-3 AWACS aircraft from the 963d Airborne Air Control Squadron (based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma) departed Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey in support of OPC. The AWACS, with its 19-member crew under the mission crew command of Major Lawrence Tracy, was to provide airborne threat warning and ...
A USAF LTV A-7D Corsair II, 69-6240, of the 355th TFW, [89] on a flight from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, crashes on approach to its home station, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, coming down on Highland Avenue between a University of Arizona athletic practice field and Mansfield Junior High School in Tucson. Two University of Arizona students, Leticia ...
A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...
The pilot and aircraft were assigned to a squadron at Williams Air Force Base near Phoenix, Arizona. The squadron is part of the 405th Tactical Training Wing at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. [232] 8 March Two Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, collide on a night training mission. They were flying at 92 mph ...
In September 1985, the 130th and 360th Squadrons were consolidated into a single unit. The consolidated squadron was redesignated the 970th Airborne Air Control Squadron and activated at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, on 15 March 1996, becoming the first Air Combat Command associate flying squadron.