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  • Test your SAPR Knowledge with a Brain Buster

    April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Tinker’s Sexual Assault Response Prevention office is raising public awareness and educating our community in a new innovative way, with the SAPR Brain Buster.

  • Tinker’s Military Youth of the Year

    Meet Willow Roe this year’s Boys and Girls Club Military Youth of the Year for the state of Oklahoma. Roe has earned this title through her commitment to community service, academic success, good character and citizenship, and establishing long term goals.

  • 552 ACW Warriors Return From Deployment

    More than 200 operators and maintenance members of the 552nd Air Control Wing returned home to Tinker Air Force Base Saturday, April 16, 2022 from a deployment to Southwest Asia.

  • Tinker talks partnerships at AERO Oklahoma

    Tinker Air Force Base leaders, Airmen and Sailors converged at the Oklahoma State Capitol along with several hundred other aviation and aerospace partners March 30 for AERO Oklahoma. The event, hosted by the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, was an opportunity for legislators and other Oklahomans to

  • EDDGE team supports digital innovation demos at AFA Conference

    The 76th Software Engineering Group’s Extreme Digital Development Group Enterprise-OKC was invited by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate to help support Digital Innovation demonstrations and vision during the 2021 Air Force Association Conference National Air, Space &

  • Tinker to bring back the Blue Angels in 2023

    The Navy’s Blue Angels demonstration team is coming back to headline the Tinker Air and Space Show in 2023. The formal announcement of the return of the Blue Angels to Tinker was made at the International Council of Air Shows in Las Vegas on Dec. 7. There will be several demonstration teams at the

  • Halloween festivities around Tinker

    Little ghouls and werewolves rejoice, Halloween is just around the corner! This year's base housing trick-or-treat hours will be Sunday, October 31, from 6 to 8 p.m., which mirrors Midwest City's hours. The 72nd Security Forces Squadron will have a lost child center set up at the Youth Center. If

  • Tinker Celebrates Hispanic Heritage

    Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, recognizing the achievements and contributions of Hispanic Americans. The observation was first introduced in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson. It was later expanded by President

  • COMMENTARY: 10th Anniversary of Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal

    The United States military has come a long way in protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ military members over the past 10 years, spurred on with the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. When the issue was being debated in Congress, LGBTQ+ military advocates were bolstered by