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  • Tinker’s STEM Explorer Post tours E-3 Sentry and base

    The Tinker Engineers and Scientists Leadership Association at Tinker Air Force Base is working closely with about 20 youth, ages 14-20, who have joined Tinker’s Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Explorer Post.The co-ed STEM Explorer Post was organized in September by Tinker AFB’s TESLA

  • Air Force team in Norman works to maintain radars worldwide

    As one arm of the tri-agency funded and staffed Radar Operations Center in Norman, a small group of Airmen work closely with the National Weather Service and Federal Aviation Administration to perform maintenance on a network of radars around the world.The network includes 159 Weather Surveillance

  • Photos: Tinker Holiday Parade, Tree Lighting and Party

    Tinker welcomed the holidays with their annual parade, tree lighting and celebration at the Tinker Club Nov. 28. The 72nd Force Support Squadron hosted Tinker families at the Tinker Club with a magical candy bar, face painting, photos with Santa and holiday dancing from children in Youth Center

  • 4 tips to manage holiday stress tobacco-free

    Navigating the holidays without tobacco can be challenging, but not impossible. Make sure you are prepared to fight the urge to use tobacco with these four tips: 1. Treat your body well. The holidays are often filled with busy schedules and obligations. Instead of turning to tobacco, give your body

  • Dressing for cold weather

    Hypothermia is defined as abnormally low body temperature caused by prolonged exposures to very cold temperatures. When exposed to cold temperatures, your body begins to lose heat faster than it’s produced. Lengthy exposures will eventually use up your body’s stored energy, which leads to lower body

  • Group makes rosaries for deploying Tinker AFB Airmen

    Four hours a month, a group of six women meet in the Tinker Air Force Base Chapel, talking, laughing and beading rosaries. Some are spouses of retired Airmen, others have other family who serve. They talk, laugh and pray as they spend hours threading strings through bead after bead, producing 500 to

  • Wingman culture promotes healthy mental fitness

    Any member of the military community may at one time or another struggle with mental fitness issues. Service members and their dependents, as well as Tinker Air Force Base civilian employees, have a variety of prevention options open to them.One way to direct them to services is by being an

  • Always dial 9-1-1 for all emergencies

    The 9-1-1 emergency reporting system has been around since the late 1960s. Tinker Air Force Base has adopted this method and modernized to 2018 standards to accurately and efficiently serve the Tinker AFB community for all police, medical and fire emergency needs.The Tinker AFB Fire and Emergency

  • Event encourages positive professional relationships

    In an effort to promote positive professional office relationships across Tinker Air Force Base, the Community Support Office organized the “Working With You is Draining Me” talk Nov. 7 at the Tinker Club.At the event, motivational speaker Rosanne Collens spoke to Airmen and civilians about working

  • Tours of Tinker AFB units to happen quarterly

    A new program at Tinker Air Force Base kicked off Nov. 2, marking the beginning of a series of tours, open to the installation community, meant to build stronger relationships between units.The program will involve a tour and operations brief from a different unit quarterly. It started with the 72nd