Each year, the Tinker Air Force Base Asian Pacific-American Heritage (APAH) Committee honors individuals of any ethnicity backgrounds who directly or indirectly promoted the Air Force values and have made significant contributions to the Air Force, Tinker AFB, and/or the APAH community.

This year TSgt Nicole A. Cabrera a AFSFA and Oklahoma Heartland Chapter member earned the Tinker AFB Asian-Pacific American Heritage Award (E-5 and above category).

She currently works as the NCOIC of Reports and Analysis. Her section is Tinker AFB's focal point for crime trend analysis, incident reports, and traffic infractions for 94K personnel spanning 7 MAJCOMS/5 wings and 45 associate units. TSgt Cabrera manages unit personnel and information security programs for 475 assigned to the 72nd Security Forces Squadron and oversees two MICT reviews and corrected 44 discrepancies and resulting in her unit receiving a "Highly Effective" UEI rating.

Her office has processed over 200 incident reports/13.3 security clearances/1.2K citations/8 installation debarment rebuttals/and 22 citation rebuttals. During this period, she led 12 Security Forces members during a NORTHERN EDGE exercise, securing $13.5M in Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, which enabled 1.94K sorties/31.2K munitions/132K cargo drops.

Additionally, she was also the Security Forces lead for 6 personnel during the CHECKERED FLAG exercise, securing $1.08M enabling 10 sorties/60 red air kills/and 63.3 combat training hours. Both exercises took place in Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.

She graduated from American Military University with a Bachelor's Degree in Child and Family Development and is currently pursuing her Master's Degree in Human Relations and has completed six credit hours with a 4.0 GPA. Additionally, she enrolled in another 15 credit hours.

TSgt Cabrera received an exceptionally well qualified score of 94% on her initial Flight Chief QC and has been trained in the Air Force Green Belt training and is an alternate Continuous Process Improvement monitor for her squadron.

She was the Air Force Assistance Fund squadron Representative/Installation Project Officer aid assisting in weekly collection of funds. The unit exceeded our goal of $6.4K and raised nearly $10K. She has also devoted 60 hours to Destiny Christian Center, assisting with school events and piloted the volunteers for 2015's Police Week, organizing 6 teams and 51 volunteers honoring 114 fallen LE officers.

Finally, she was Team Tinkers Spring 2016 Graduation Chairperson arranging a ceremony for 150 Spring Graduates/20 volunteers and requesting and coordinating the Air University's Command Chief (CMSgt Timothy Horn) as their guest speaker.

Well done TSgt Cabrera …. AFSFA is proud of you and proud to have you as a member!!

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