• Vance color run makes green for AFAF

    Air Force blue was also orange, red, green and yellow at Vance Air Force Base March 14.The base hosted its first ever color run, a 5K which marked the end of the 2015 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign.Vance Airmen and their friends and family members were joined by northwest Oklahomans who were

  • Gold Star Families to receive unique acknowledgement at Vance

    Some memorials aren't inlaid with platinum, or ten feet tall, or carved out of Italian Marble.According to reports, for Capt. Nathan Nylander, an Air Force meteorologist, April 27, 2011, was just another day on deployment. The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Airman was deployed and at a

  • TRICARE revises compound drug coverage

    Starting May 1, 2015, Express Scripts, the TRICARE pharmacy contractor, will screen all ingredients in compound drug claims to ensure they are safe and effective, and covered by TRICARE. This screening process is like the one TRICARE already uses for other prescription drugs, but it will now apply

  • Single Airman program gets cooking at Autry Tech

    In a time of Air Force quality of life program restructuring, the Single Airman Programming Initiative endures.In a partnership between Vance's SAPI committee and the Autry Technology Center, a local vocational school, Team Vance got off the base and into the kitchen for the first night of a

  • Motorcycle season kicks off at Vance

    Motorcycle weather has finally arrived in Northwest Oklahoma, and Airmen are pulling batteries off of tenders and getting their two-wheeled toys ready for another season of freedom on the open road.The arrival of riding weather does not just draw out Team Vance's current motorcycle owners. It also