• Airmen mask-up for a night of mystery

    Chapter 990 of the Air Force Sergeants Association hosted the first-ever Masquerade Ball, Jan. 11, at the Vance Collocated Club. Nearly 100 Vance team members attended the event in decorative masks, sharply contrasting the usually structured and scripted Air Force Birthday Ball or Dinings-out.The

  • Spouses learn about future assignments at Plane Panel

    For student pilots nearing the end of pilot training, choosing which airplanes and corresponding locations to put on their dream sheets can be intimidating.The process is even more intimidating for spouses and family members. They're often left in the dark about what it really means for their

  • Martin Luther King – civil rights leader, master of resiliency

    (Editor's note: The 26th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 19, at the Central Assembly of God Family Life Center, 1202 West Oxford in Enid. Col. Christopher Daniels, the 71st Mission Support Group commander will be a speaker at the event.)Dr. Martin

  • New radio tower improves Vance land-radio system

    The new 150-foot radio tower near the Baker Gate is part of a new Enhanced Land Mobile Radio system Air Education and Training Command bases are testing before it goes Air Force-wide.The new state-of-the-art system upgrades the ground-to-ground communications used here to the current standard in

  • Felix, Ross selected for early promotion to E-4

    Two Vance Airmen will receive their promotion to senior airman early under the below-the-zone program.Airman 1st Class Oscar Felix, a 71st Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, and Airman 1st Class Kimberly Ross, a 71st Security Forces Squadron patrolman, were selected for early