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  • 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

  • 76th AMXG shows Team Fairchild how to ‘Tinker’

    Leaders from Fairchild Air Force Base visited the 76th Aircraft Maintenance Group Nov. 18-20, during a site visit to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.Tinker AFB is made up of 5,500 acres with 460 buildings hosting operational missions for the Air Force, Navy as well as several other Department of

  • AFMC capability roadmap key to evolutionary supply chain risk management

    Modern supply chain risk management requires a “cradle-to-grave” approach that accounts for risks from the time a requirement is identified through development, sustainment and ultimate retirement of the same. A comprehensive, cohesive capability roadmap for SCRM is the driving force behind the work

  • Deploying mental health care downrange

    Deployed mental health providers play a vital role in delivering medical care downrange, ensuring the health of the warfighter and the mission.Even though service members who deploy are medically ready, both physically and mentally, the rigors of deployment can take a toll.