Tinker Air Logistics Center Forms Environment Management Agency

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Journal Record Staff Reporter

What the U.S. Air Force is going through these days.

No longer do officials just plan for flying combat missions and training for those missions, then providing all the mission support, but they also are facing the same environmental issues business and industry face daily.

Because of requirements by the Environmental Protection Agency, a new directorate has been formed within the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base to protect the environment.

Mission of the 200-person unit is to preserve, protect and restore the environment of the past, present and future, said Maj. Richard Ashworth of …