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  • SAPR empowers, supports Airmen

    Sexual assault can be a deeply traumatizing event in anyone’s life. Across the Air Force, Airmen and their families have access to Sexual Assault Prevention and Response or Family Advocacy Program resources to get support and guidance on how to move forward.

  • Take a break on base for your mental fitness

     Editor’s note: This article is part of a series dedicated to highlighting mental health resources on base. Look for related articles in the weeks to come.When life gets busy, it is easy for stress or overwhelming feelings to build up. However, finding the space and time during a busy week to take a

  • Rules for weapons on base remain strict

    Following an incident in which an individual attempted to bring an improperly secured firearm onto Tinker Air Force Base, members of the 72nd Security Forces Squadron want to emphasize the protocol for personally owned firearms, weapons and ammunition.While residents permanently stationed at Tinker

  • Tinker employee makes faux injuries an art

    As an office manager for the women’s health and pediatric clinic at Tinker Air Force Base, Sunny Schones greets and assists patients in the 72nd Medical Group, Bldg. 1094.However, come time for training for those responding to a car or plane crash, triage or the twice-yearly base active shooter

  • Active shooter training conducted at medical group

    When the 72nd Medical Group in Bldg. 1094 at Tinker Air Force Base closed for monthly training Aug. 15, several forces on base jumped into action.Maj. Denise Zona, mental health flight commander, with moulage makeup forming a neck wound and fake blood splattered onto the front and back of her

  • Home Away from Home hosts Mind-Body workshop Aug. 23

     The Home Away from Home program has partnered with the American Red Cross to offer a Mind and Body Workshop for all active duty military on Aug. 23 at the Red Cross of Oklahoma City, 601 NE 6 St.In addition to active duty military, HAFH welcomes its participants, host families and retirees to

  • Sustainment Commander focuses on maintaining center’s top priorities

    One month into leading the more than 43,000-strong workforce of the Air Force Sustainment Center, Lt. Gen. Gene Kirkland is intent on evolving the same priorities that have guided the Center in delivering combat power for America since AFSC’s inception.Priorities built on providing expert logistics

  • History office plays key role in OCP emblem-to-patch conversion

    Since early recorded history, warring tribes often carried banners or flags marked with emblems to represent factions and motivate their warriors to fight for the cause. It is to this historical tradition that we can trace the evolution of military emblems and patches. As the Air Force begins

  • Tinker leaders share agile power projection platform

    Tinker Air Force Base leaders readily shared their knowledge and expertise with Tinker and the Primes Conference attendees on Aug. 14-16 at the Reed Center in Midwest City.The 13th Annual Tinker and the Primes is designed as a collaborative effort marrying the Air Force’s potential needs with