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Maj. Tikia Wright, chief of laboratory services and infection preventionist with the 72nd Medical Support Squadron, has served in the U. S. Air Force for three years. Her hometown is Shreveport, Louisiana, and she loves crafting. As the infection preventionist, she ensures that the 72nd Medical Group staff is wearing the correct personal protection equipment, that the clinic is stocked with proper PPE, hand sanitizer is distributed throughout the clinic and ensuring infection is not passed between staff members and patients. Wright loves the lab and says, "without the lab, you're only guessing." The lab is able to provide results for the doctors and PAs to be able to determine a diagnosis.
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Airman 1st Class Daniel Oros is a customer service representative in the CAC/ID Office for the 72nd Force Support Squadron. He has served in the U.S. Air Force for eight months and is from Mesa, Arizona. He likes hiking and playing video games during his time away from work. In response to COVID-19, the CAC/ID Office is minimally-manned and is by-appointment only. Oros also performs ID checks and COVID screening at the office front door. He says the best part of his job is helping people and making them happy.
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Natalie Lindsey is a cashier at the Tinker Commissary and has worked for DECA for 23 years. When she's not at work, she loves shopping, making crafts and spending time with her husband. Her current duties include checking IDs at the commissary entrance to ensure the correct customers are entering during their specified times, handing out disinfectant wipes to sanitize shopping carts and assisting customers with their questions about food and product limits. Lindsey says interacting with customers is the best part of her job. "Customers are my life,” she says. “I love to see them."
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2nd Lt. Ashlyn Paulson, a public affairs officer in the 72nd Air Base Wing, is currently managing the base’s COVID-19 Straight Talk Center and helps with social media. The U.S. Air Force Academy graduate from Sussex, Wisconsin, has been in the Air Force for two years and is a member of the Air Force Rugby team. In her free time, she volunteers with the National Crisis Text line to assist those in times of need. She said the best part of her job is being able to learn and share all the unique and diverse missions of Tinker and the Air Force.
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AFSC Frontlines: 2nd Lt. Ashlyn Paulson

AFSC Spotlight: Meet 2nd Lt. Ashlyn Paulson Lieutenant Paulson, a public affairs officer in the 72nd Air Base Wing, is currently managing the base’s COVID-19 Straight Talk Center and helps with social media. The U.S. Air Force Academy graduate from Sussex, Wisconsin, has been in the Air Force for two years and is a member of the Air Force Rugby team. In her free time, she volunteers with the National Crisis Text line to assist those in times of need. She said the best part of her job is being able to learn and share all the unique and diverse missions of Tinker and the Air Force.
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Rhonda England works for Dale Rogers Training Center as a custodial lead. She started working at Tinker two years ago as a janitor. She said her favorite part of the job is working with people and especially loves working with those with disabilities. England is a mom of two and has six grandchildren. Her favorite times are those she gets to spend with her grandchildren and the ones spent in church.
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AFSC Spotlight: Meet Rhonda England Ms. England works for Dale Rogers Training Center as a custodial lead. She started working at Tinker two years ago as a janitor. She said her favorite part of the job is working with people and especially loves working with those with disabilities. England is a mom of two and has six grandchildren. Her favorite times are those she gets to spend with her grandchildren and the ones spent in church.
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Natalie Lindsey is a sales store cashier at the Tinker Commissary and has worked for DECA for 23 years. When she's not at work, she loves shopping, making crafts and spending time with her husband. Her current duties include checking IDs at the entrance of the commissary to assure the correct customers are entering during their specified times, handing out disinfectant wipes to customers for their shopping carts and assisting customers with their questions about food and product limits. Lindsey says the best part of her job is the customers. "Customers are my life. I love to see them." (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Airman 1st Class Daniel Oros is a customer service representative in the CAC/ID Office for the 72nd Force Support Squadron. He has served in the U.S. Air Force for eight months and is from Mesa, Arizona. He likes hiking and playing video games during his time away from work. Oros' duties include making CAC and ID cards and updating DEERS. In response to COVID-19, the CAC/ID Office is minimally-manned and are only taking appointments. He is also performing ID checks and COVID screening at the front door of their office area during this time. Oros says the best part of his job is helping people and making them happy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Staff Sgt. Ernest Graydon serves as the non-commissioned officer in charge of chapel resources. He has served in the U.S. Air Force for nine years and is from Tifton, GA. He loves fishing, church and spending time with his family. His primary duties as NCOIC are assuring the chapel has resources, handling contracting issues and appropriated funding, maintaining facility and serves as the contracting officer representative for Chapel Tithes and Offerings. During the COVID crisis, Chapel staff is manning the Latte Lounge and engaging with the Airmen there. They are only allowing five people at a time inside, adhering to social distancing policies and cleaning and sanitizing often. The Latte Lounge is open seven days a week. Graydon says the best part of his job "is having the opportunity as a team to connect and build rapport with other Airmen." (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Maj. Tikia Wright, chief of laboratory services and infection preventionist with the 72nd Medical Support Squadron, has served in the U. S. Air Force for three years. Her hometown is Shreveport, LA, and she loves crafting. Some of her team's main duties are bringing samples into the lab and running influenza tests on their analyzer. If it is determined to possibly be COVID, it is processed and shipped to the epidemiology lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. As the infection preventionist, she ensures that the 72nd Medical Group staff is wearing the correct personal protection equipment, that the clinic is stocked with proper PPE, hand sanitizer is distributed throughout the clinic and ensuring infection is not passed between staff members and patients. Wright loves the lab, providing the quote, "without the lab, you're only guessing." The lab is able to provide results for the doctors and PAs to be able to determine a diagnosis. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Maj. Joseph Jones, a certified physician's assistant with the 72nd Operational Medical Readiness Squadron and a team lead for the sick call triage and treatment team, has served for 24 years in the U.S. Air Force. Originally from Yuma, Arizona, Jones likes playing softball and hanging out with friends and was named the 2018 MAJCOM Clinician of the Year. In addition to administrative paperwork, Jones' duties currently include triaging patients with respiratory and intestinal issues, and possibly COVID-19, versus patients with regular appointments and pharmacy customers. The best part of his job is the people he works with and seeing the effect they have on the Tinker community by working together to get everyone feeling better. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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72nd Air Base Wing Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Sam Bridges, originally from Lufkin, Texas, has served in the U.S. Air Force for 31 years. In his free time, he likes gardening, landscaping and watching sports, especially baseball, with his wife. The main duties of the chaplain corps are to ensure active duty military and Tinker personnel have the right to exercise their freedom of religion and also advise leadership on the morale and spiritual wellness of Airmen. Bridges enjoys his job because he loves taking care of people. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Huey Joe is a custodial foreman at the Tinker Base Exchange and has worked for AAFES for eight years. As the custodial foreman, he and his team have assured that their store is extra clean, especially the bathrooms, which are cleaned and fully stocked every hour on the hour. The Jonesboro, Louisiana, native says the best part of his job is helping people. “That's what I do,” Joe said. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Robin Lewallen works as a driver/operator for the Tinker Fire Department and has served here for 13 years. Lewallen is from Hollis, Oklahoma, and loves spending time with her family and her dogs. Her main duties are to do a daily checkout of equipment and to drive and operate all emergency response vehicles. She said the best thing about her job is working with good people who have become like family. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Chaplain (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 young people and Airmen is the best part of his job. "I've been in ministry for 31 years and this is my way of giving back to the Air Force. Having the opportunity to learn from young leaders in the Air Force and also helping to mold them is a great joy -- it's a passion of mine! To me, it's no greater job to actually pour into young people as they pour into you. It keeps you current, which is why I know a lot of social media things-because of them." (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Pam Cowns serves as Tinker’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Coordinator. She has worked in the SAPR office for five years, but has also spent time as a program manager for the F101 engine, worked with the C21 program and served in the U.S. Army for 28 years, retiring as a first sergeant. Cowns is originally from Mustang, Oklahoma, but calls Midwest City her home. She loves spending time with her children and five grandchildren. The main focus of the SAPR office is to care for victims of sexual assault and explain the reporting options they have. The SAPR Office has had to make changes to events scheduled for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, but their office is still open through this pandemic and one full-time staff member is in the office every day. The SAPR hotline (405-734-7272) is also operational 24/7, manned by the five full-time SAPR staff. Cowns like helping people. "I like being able to see how someone goes from being a victim to a survivor and then flat-out thriving in life,” she said. “It’s very rewarding to see that.” (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Airman 1st Class Grace Brown has served in the U.S. Air Force for less than a year and works as a customer support journeyman in the 72nd Force Support Squadron Military Personnel Flight in the CAC/ID Office. Originally from Hillsboro, Ohio, Brown likes theater and making music, playing instruments and singing. Brown’s main duty in her job is verifying customer’s information and making sure it’s up-to-date. Brown says her favorite part about her job is being able to relieve the stress from other people by making sure they’re taken care of. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Sandra Brown is a jewelry associate at the Tinker Exchange and has worked on base for almost 25 years. Originally from Bossier City, Louisiana, Brown calls Midwest City her home. She enjoys church, reading her Bible, shopping and spending time with family and working with her co-workers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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Allen Kalsem works in the produce section of the Tinker Commissary and has worked at the store for about six months. His duties include stocking shelves as quickly as possible after trucks come in and cleaning and disinfecting the produce area. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kelly White)
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