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  • Support for members exposed to traumatic stress

    Some groups of people are at high risk for witnessing or being involved in traumatic incidents. These include emergency medical personnel, fire response, security forces, mortuary personnel and active duty members exposed to combat or violence.   Ordinary people can also be exposed to traumatic events, such as motor vehicle accidents or being a
  • Five-year-old Jovannie Arroyo helps Maj. Gen. Lorren Reno, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center commander, read to children during the Tinker Library's story time July 19. (Air Force photo by Becky Pillifant)

    Children grow through reading

    This year's Summer Reading Program brought many new and exciting ways to encourage kids to read.   The Tinker Library has teamed up with the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and has a similar summer program to all state libraries, making it easier for children and parents.   There have also been several highlights of this summer's program. The
  • A colorful periodic table now graces the floor of the 76th Maintenance Wing Electroplating Lab, an idea of chemist Chris Mance, right, who did the work with help from chemist David Nguyen, center. Fellow chemist Carson Cameron, left, works in the open design that also now allows easier access to an emergency eye wash station. (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

    Periodic table installed on floor of chemistry lab

    Hidden deep in Bldg. 3001 is a unique mural, of sorts. Built into a chemistry laboratory floor, the mural is a chart that best represents the science of chemistry.    Chris Mance, 76th Maintenance Wing chemist, designed and primarily installed a 180-square-foot periodic table into the electroplating lab floor. With help from fellow chemist David
  • The new officer and enlisted evaluation forms will make their debut in August, starting with senior master sergeants. (Air Force photo by Kandis West)

    Performance reports shortened, fitness added

    Air Force officials want to keep evaluation forms short and sweet and of course, lean.    The new officer and enlisted evaluation forms will make its debut this August, starting with senior master sergeants.    Air Force deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel Lt. Gen. Roger Brady said the new forms will reduce the workload associated with
  • Electronics technician Janae Starkey re-assembles a B-1 antenna after testing in Tinker's B-1 Antenna Shop. The shop is the only one in the Air Force working on the bomber's antenna repair. (Air Force photo by Margo Wright)

    One of a kind: B-1B Antenna Shop only one in the Air Force; sustains entire B-1B fleet

    Nearly 20 years after the B-1B Antenna/Radar shop first opened, it remains the only one in the Air Force. That means every B-1B antenna needing repair must come through Tinker Air Force Base.    Built by Westinghouse, the B-1B antenna is affixed to the nose of the aircraft and is valued at roughly $4.5 million. The antenna allows the aircraft to
  • Col. Michael Leahy

    448th CSW vice director retires

    Col. Michael Leahy will soon cross out of the blue.    After a 27-year career, which brought him to Tinker Air Force Base for 11 months, the 448th Combat Sustainment Wing vice director will retire July 27.    "The Air Force gave me a series of tremendous opportunities and I would not trade any of them, but I've reached a point where I can better

  • Save money when you register now for the USAF Marathon

    Attention all marathoners and half-marathoners: If you've put off early registration for the 11th annual U.S. Air Force Marathon, Sept. 15, your time for procrastinating is running out!    If you haven't logged onto www.usafmarathon.com and registered for your race by the time the clock strikes midnight Eastern Standard Time on July 31, your
  • Jack McSwain, 548th Propulsion Maintenance Squadron welding supervisor, explains the oil tube welding process to Turkish welding engineer Burcu Okur during a visit July 9 and 10. Looking on are, from left, Darren Raines, 548th PMXS welder; Larry Waite, Turkish program manager with the 748th Combat Sustainment Group; and Lt. Col. Tolga Yidiz, Turkish air force liaison. (Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Eric Scott)

    Tinker can, our allies know it

    During a mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Feedom, an aircraft encountered an engine problem. A subsequent investigation determined the cause of the problem to be a faulty oil supply tube on the turbine frame of the engine.    This defect was declared to be a safety of flight issue, prompting immediate depot attention.   
  • Airman 1st Class Chris Reyburn and Airman Christian Sousa, 552nd Air Maintenance Squadron, read over a step-by-step sign while going through the chemical decontamination line during the ATSO Rodeo challenge. (Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lorraine Amaro)

    ATSO Rodeo: Rounding up the 552nd ACW, 72nd ABW

    Real-world taskings this year have taken the place of Operational Readiness Exercise "fun and games" as the 552nd Air Control Wing deployed its Airmen to support Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom.    Two exercises were cancelled since the deployment so this time around the 552nd ACW Inspector General office decided to take a new approach known
  • Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Joy and Senior Airman Katie Romo, both 72nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron public health technicians, set up a mosquito trap. The trap works by emitting carbon dioxide, which attract the mosquito, then a fan sucks the mosquito into the trap. (Air Force photo by Kandis West)

    Wet weather cozy for mosquitoes

    The record-breaking number of consecutive days of rain in June has caused a mosquito infested July.    "Mosquito populations have increased and tripled or even quadrupled in some areas of Oklahoma," said Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Joy, noncommissioned officer-in-charge of Community Health, 72nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron.    Flooding and standing rain
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