• Happy New Year Airmen: 2013 will be a great year

    To those of you who spent the holidays deployed, thank you. And I'm sorry you weren't home with your families. I know you understand that what you're doing is important, but I also know that doesn't make the separation any easier.In these days where self-serving agendas seem to be on display

  • NORAD tracks Santa's Christmas Eve flight

    Team Vance families can track Santa Claus on his world-wide journey Christmas Eve with the help of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.The official NORAD Santa tracker website, http://www.noradsanta.org, will provide updates on Santa's location using the GPS satellite systems, radar

  • The perfect – and legal -- holiday gift

    Do you want to give your boss that perfect gift this holiday to remember you? How about a ticket to see his or her favorite team?Make sure the ticket costs less than $10. Unfortunately, for that price the only thing for which they will remember you is the nose bleed they got from those top level

  • Applying core values to the organizational culture

    Happy holidays Team Vance. Here's hoping you have a joyful Christmas celebration and return safely in the new year.Before your break begins, I've got some questions for you. What is the 71st Flying Training Wing mission statement? What's the Air Education and Training Command vision statement? And