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  • Daily Update: 21 April 2020

    For 21 April, Tinker AFB remains in HPCON Charlie due to the COVID-19 pandemic. #TeamTinker has demonstrated incredible resiliency and strength during our response to COVID-19. Our 72d Headquarters’ installation team, Chief Master Sgt. Melissa Erb, Command Chief, Mr Bob Sandlin, Director of Staff

  • Update to DoD Travel Restrictions

    Effective today, Secretary Esper approved an extension to the stop move order through June 30 to aid in the further prevention of the spread of COVID-19.

  • Team Tinker Frontlines: Meet Airman 1st Class Arlexis Nelson

    Meet Airman 1st Class Arlexis Nelson, 72nd Security Forces SquadronAirman Nelson, with the 72nd Security Forces Squadron, joined the Air Force in September 2019. She likes to read and spend time with her husband when she’s not on duty. Her main duty is controlling the entering and exiting of all

  • Daily Update: 20 April 2020

    For 20 April, Tinker AFB remains in HPCON Charlie due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest COVID-19 confirmed cases include a civilian assigned to 76 AMXG who has been on leave since 23 March, and a civilian assigned to 76 PMXG in building 3001 who last worked on 10 April.  Public Health officials

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Felix Jones

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Felix JonesChaplain (Capt.) Felix Jones, originally from Bossier City, Louisiana, has served in the Air Force for eight years. Part of the Tinker Chapel’s COVID response is offering secure counselling virtually and manning the Latte Lounge daily. Jones says working with

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Brittany Littleton

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Brittany LittletonBrittany Littleton is a child and youth program assistant currently working with pre-toddlers at Child Development Center West. She's worked at Tinker for three and a half years and is from Midwest City, Oklahoma. In her time away from work, Littleton loves

  • April brings sexual assault awareness to forefront

    Nearly one in five women and one in 71 men in the U.S. have been raped at some point in their life, According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center,Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in April has the goal of raising awareness about sexual assault and violence, educating the

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Robin Lewallen

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Robin LewallenMs. Lewallen works as a driver/operator for the Tinker Fire Department and has served at Tinker for 13 years. Lewallen, who is from Hollis, Oklahoma, loves spending time with her family and her dogs. Her main duties are to do a daily checkout of equipment and to

  • Parade celebrates kids during Month of the Military Child

    Tinker Air Force Base’s Youth Services hosted an inverse drive-thru parade on April 16 for Month of the Military Child as a way to celebrate military children and give them a chance to engage in a fun activity while also honoring social distancing guidance in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The

  • 78th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid

    April 18 marks the 78th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, in which Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, U.S. Army Air Forces, and Vice Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., U.S. Navy, led a joint bombing operation on the Japanese mainland aimed to inflict both material and psychological damage upon the enemy